text: Voter fraud and voter suppression are very, very different things.  Voter fraud...persons who do not have the legal right to vote and vote anyway has been repeatedly shown to be statistically non-existant.  This is not a secret.
  
  Voter suppression is a very different animal.  It is the systematically applied strategy of using every available tactic to keep people who have the legal right to vote from voting.  It has been documented again and again across the Red States in our country.  Tactics like "voter roll purges" wherein everyone having the name of a felon is removed from the rolls and has to prove they are not that felon in order to get re-registered.  Tactics like having fewer voting booths in precincts which are "Democratic"; tactics like shortening hours, closing the polls even though there are citizens waiting to vote; tactics like refusing to have early hours so individuals can vote w/o having to take time off from work.  The list goes on...the editorial is on target GCrum