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Here we go. USA TODAY just told us something important with facts, even if they didn’t do it outright. Take a close look. 2,068 reported cases of voter fraud. Since 2000. A twelve year period where the total amount of fraud among three presidential elections alone accounts for less than 0.0005% of the total votes cast. Less than that. In only the three largest elections. Why do we even still consider voter fraud an issue? Because our politicians aren’t as well versed in “arithmetic” as we expect them to be. Just to put that percentile into perspective, if a contraceptive with that kind of effectiveness were put on the market in a country our size and everyone used it, a perfect use scenario would yield roughly 1,500 unintended pregnancies annually. In the same time frame 20 times that many people would die in traffic accidents alone.

Here we go. USA TODAY just told us something important with facts, even if they didn’t do it outright. Take a close look. 2,068 reported cases of voter fraud. Since 2000. A twelve year period where the total amount of fraud among three presidential elections alone accounts for less than 0.0005% of the total votes cast. Less than that. In only the three largest elections. Why do we even still consider voter fraud an issue? Because our politicians aren’t as well versed in “arithmetic” as we expect them to be.

Just to put that percentile into perspective, if a contraceptive with that kind of effectiveness were put on the market in a country our size and everyone used it, a perfect use scenario would yield roughly 1,500 unintended pregnancies annually. In the same time frame 20 times that many people would die in traffic accidents alone.

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