I suppose it’s possible that the authors have uncovered a vast amount of fraudulent registration and voting. But if I’m estimating correctly, they’re proposing that there’s over a million cases of non-citizens registering, each of which is, as per Wikipedia, a federal crime “punishable by imprisonment and/or the initiation of removal proceedings against that individual.” I’ll wait for these result to be reproduced before believing 1.) there are in fact over a million individuals who would take that risk and 2.) that not one of them has ever been caught.

One thing I won’t need to wait for is to point out a flaw in the article. They state “Both sides depend more heavily on anecdotes than data.” Actually, I can’t think of either side depending on anecdotes, heavily or not. The side pushing voter fraud is, as far as I can see, just arguing that it could happen, without a lot of examples, anecdotal or otherwise. The the opposing side is relying on investigations by the FBI and others which say that it just isn’t happening.

One other point — it’s misleading to say that the article is “in the WaPo.” It’s on a blog hosted on the WaPo site. The blog is called “The Monkey Cage”, which maybe should tell us something.