Jon Stewart Debunks Voter Fraud Myth
By Laleh Ispahani
Jon Stewart's Daily Show focused a recent episode on voter protection issues, largely through the lens of the Florida purge debacle and the myth of voter fraud. It highlights Open Society grantees the Advancement Project and the Brennan Center for Justice who are working hard to educate the public, and to positively shift the debate and discourse on voting. Among other things, the segment reveals that many elections officials (as distinct from policymakers) believe voter fraud is a non-issue, and that impediments to registration and to voting make little or no sense.

Laleh Ispahani is managing director of Programs at the Open Society Foundations.