As we get closer to Election Day, the cacophony over "voter fraud" grows louder. Here are just a few of the items we’re seeing:

• Fox News hypes the conspiracy theory that the Justice Department is sending out poll monitors to facilitate voter fraud.
• Republicans are motivating their base by trotting out their baseless charge that Al Franken stole the Minnesota 2008 Senate election.
• Georgia GOP groups and candidates are helping Tea Party groups access precincts as poll watchers to fight "voter fraud."
• Rep. Keith Ellison calls out Minnesota "anti-fraud" group for voter intimidation. The "dead voter" cited by a Republican candidate to attack voter fraud last week is, in fact, quite alive.
• Nevada’s Secretary of State thoroughly debunks Republican allegations of voter fraud and voting machine tampering.

It is important to remember why the Right puts so much energy into the Voter-Fraud Fraud, screaming and yelling and working overtime to tackle a mostly non-existent problem. While they don’t root out the voter fraud that was never going to happen in the first place, they do intimidate people, often people of color and likely Democratic voters, into not voting. They also work to paint any election victory by Democrats as illegitimate.