Eli Saslow, Food stamps put Rhode Island town on monthly boom-and-bust cycle. Part 1 of a 6-part series in The Washington Post, beginning on 16 March 2013. Eli Saslow won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting “for his unsettling and nuanced reporting on the prevalence of food stamps in post-recession [United States], forcing readers to grapple with issues of poverty and dependency.”
October 29, 2012
The Voter-Fraud Myth: The man [Hans von Spakovsky] who has stoked fear about imposters at the polls
Jane Mayer, The Voter-Fraud Myth. The New Yorker, 29 October 2012. From Jane Mayer’s Notes on Voter Fraud, The New Yorker, 1 November 2012: “[W]hat [Hans von Spakovsky] and other such fearmongers are stubbornly wrong about, and won’t acknowledge no matter how much evidence piles up, is that there is virtually no modern record of individual voters trying to steal elections by impersonating others at the polls. It is this phantom threat that has fuelled the push for voter-I.D. laws over the past few years…. [A] nationwide study of legal records undertaken by the reporting consortium News21 found a grand total of only seven convictions for this type of voter fraud since 2000.”