Cato Podcast
Cato Podcast
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Unlawful Voting Is a Tiny Problem
36 minutes Posted Mar 5, 2026 at 11:45 am.
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The push for new federal databases and legislation like the SAVE Act is often justified as necessary to stop widespread unlawful voting. But according to election administrators and investigators, confirmed cases are vanishingly rare. Cato's Walter Olson and Stephen Richer explore how voter roll audits actually work, why database matching can produce misleading headlines, and what the evidence reveals about the scale of the problem.

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