"You Don't Want Me to Vote."

• Politifact runs the numbers on "voter fraud."  (And lists their sources.)

  [Mark Pocan:]  "Let’s put it this way, more people are struck by lightning than commit in-person voter fraud."
  
  Getting struck by lightning might actually be more common than what you’d guess.
  
  What about in-person voter fraud by impersonation -- that is, claiming to be someone else as you cast your ballot?
  
  We’ll note up front that there are various types of voter fraud, but Pocan is citing one particular type.
  
  [...]
  
  Roughly 300 people per year are struck by lightning in the United States. But cases of voter fraud -- someone impersonating another voter -- are documented even less often.

• Nevertheless: (John Amato, Crooks & Liars.)

  In an interview with the Washington Post, Donald Trump continued to promote unfounded claims that if he loses the general election, it will be because it's rigged.
  
  As Politifact reveals, people are more likely to get hit by lightning than participate in voter fraud.
  
  The whole interview is deranged, but [John Amato is] focusing on his "rigged election" nonsense, not only because it appears this will be his strategy as he continues to fall behind, but because he is illegitimizing the election process for a large number of voters. This does damage to our democracy that will outlast the Trump campaign.
  
  Trump believes that opposition to draconian voter ID laws is because people are voting as many as ten times without ID and don't want to be caught. All evidence points to the opposite being true.

  Emphasis added.
  

One almost gets the idea that Republicans like the "voter fraud" canard because "level playing fields" are not really to their taste.