Voter Accuracy Project fails to recognize truth

Dear Editor:
Just when you think that people can’t get more separated from reality, something like the Nebraska Voter Accuracy Project (NVAP) comes along and proves that there is no limit to some people’s refusal to accept the truth.  
From the months leading up to the 2020 election, beginning with Trump’s repeated statements that the only way he could lose that election was if the election was rigged, extreme conservatives have refused to acknowledge the simple fact that Joe Biden won the presidency and these people will stop at nothing, no matter how absurd, to follow Trump down that rabbit hole. If you remember, there were 60+ lawsuits that challenged the voting results and none of them succeeded because there was no evidence of fraud to any significant extent. Some half-dozen states that Trump lost recounted their presidential ballots once, twice, and in one case, three times and guess what; in none of those states was voter fraud found, and in Arizona, it was found that the recount actually showed Joe Biden winning by a few more votes than the original count showed.  
Now we have groups going around, in states that Trump actually won,  maintaining that, even though Trump won that state, there is still a major problem with voter fraud in evidence. Seems to me that if a group was going to go to the trouble to risk prison sentences and large fines to organize a massive voter fraud enterprise, they would at least have the expertise to ensure that their candidate actually ended up winning the election in those states.
 Fact is, our elections in this country are today, and have been in the past, secure. Nebraska’s current Secretary of State, Bob Evnen and former Secretary of State John Gale, have both asserted their confidence that Nebraska’s elections have been accurate and legitimate.
Other prominent Republican figures stating similar belief in the system include: former Trump Attorney General Bob Barr, Hal Daub, Ben Sasse and Don Bacon. Ben Sasse has stated that the only place that you can legitimately bring up allegations of voter fraud is in a court of law, and in the cases that have been brought to court, not only have they been refused, the lawyers involved never raise the actual allegations that they have been alleging  prior to the trials, because they know the evidence is not there and that they can suffer serious consequences for lying to a court.
 Now the hue and cry from the most extreme factions of the Republican party is that we must make drastic changes to voter regulations because the public no longer has faith in our elections.  Problem is, the only reason some of the public has concerns about voting security is because of the people who keep claiming, without justification, that there was rampant voter fraud in the election.  This is a solution in search of a problem.
How rare is actual voter fraud? From the Nebraskans For Civic Reform: A study of in-person voter fraud from 2000 on showed ONE case of this type out of 15,000,000 votes. In instances where Voter ID was involved, from 2000-2014, there were 31 cases of voter fraud identified out of 1,000,000,000 total votes, and more than one-half of those 31 cases were of a nature that would not have been prevented by Voter ID. It is estimated that Voter ID requirements will prevent 10 percent of our voters from being able to cast a ballot. Demanding Voter ID laws is not about preventing voter fraud it is all about disenfranchising voters that conservatives want to keep away from the polls.
 Finally, I have to say I am disappointed in the News-Register for covering the recent NVAP meeting that was held in Aurora without also including information about other perspectives about the issue. It shouldn’t be left up to editorials from readers to respond to these  types of controversies. A local newspaper should recognize that they have subscribers who have differing views and should make at least an attempt to be balanced in their coverage of topics that affect all of their readers. The internet has shown that we have too many people who don’t use critical thinking skills when encountering information in the media, they have a tendency to only search for arguments to support what they already believe is true.
If the article had presented facts from both perspectives of the issue of voter security, it would be hoped that the readers might at least have to consider both options. When the report of the meeting only includes one side of a very contentious issue, no critical thinking is advanced
Monte Burger,
Aurora