Every election year, conservatives start screaming about “voter fraud.” And the media pays a great deal of attention. And, when all is said and done, there is typically a negligible amount of actual voter fraud.

Meanwhile, as we've been reminded in recent election cycles, voter disenfranchisement does happen.

You'd think the media would have learned by now. And yet they're in a frenzy over the Right's attacks on ACORN ... and all but ignoring stories like this:

Tens of thousands of eligible voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked from registering in ways that appear to violate federal law, according to a review of state records and Social Security data by The New York Times.