Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. I see that media outlets are getting around to fact checking Trump’s BS about voter fraud and voter rolls.

AP fact check: “Voter roll problems do not equate to fraud”https://t.co/8mPdmqdP5t pic.twitter.com/YVjtHczoyu

— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) October 25, 2016

Long story short. Voter fraud just isn’t happening, and it isn’t happening because voter rolls aren’t current. As I’ve explained before, voter rolls can be out of date because people move away or have died. That doesn’t mean people can just show up and vote in multiple locations. It means that the voter rolls haven’t been purged because the information hasn’t caught up and there are issues in the opposite direction - when the voter roll purges are over-expansive and kill valid voters registrations, making it tougher for them to vote. We saw that in Brooklyn during the primaries, and it is a far more worrisome issue than the opposite.

Reality is that voter fraud is exceptionally rare, and it’s far more likely that an election is swayed by voter suppression than fraud. When you’ve got one party doing everything imaginable to reduce turnout - from making it tougher to register to vote to reducing access to polls by any means necessary, that’s the bigger and far more serious issue.

One party is determined to make voting far more difficult, thereby depriving people the right to vote. That’s the GOP. They’ve refused to fix the issues identified by the Supreme Court in the VRA, which has enabled states to institute all kinds of restrictions that were previously prohibited. That’s a direct assault on the right to vote.

That’s the GOP.