Vote fraud? Vote confidence? Vote tampering?

Dahlia Lithwick's column in Newsweek discusses the fear by the GOP that the Democrats are waging massive voter fraud by casting ballots for dead people. In spite of a lack of evidence, that scare has taken hold to the point that a quarter of the population believes it is a big concern -- and the US Supremes have decided a landmark case on voter ID based on it. You might be able to guess when the scare began to pop up: in 2000 as Bush was running for the first time. He, through a completely corrupt Voting Rights Division of the Department of Justice, and the GOP has turned the fear of fraud into the fact of voter suppression, able to do more damage to the electoral process than the fraud could. Yes, there have been cases of fraud over the last 8 years, but they were all small-potatoes operations, nothing as massive and coordinated as the GOP alleges. Slay the fraud bogeyman and we can restore both the confidence in the vote and the right to vote. Alas, the article says nothing about electronic vote tampering, another big source of the lack of vote confidence and almost all perpetrated by the GOP.