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The Trump administration's search for noncitizen voters turned up failures — raising the question of whether the hunt was driven by evidence or belief.
Confirmation BiasBurden of ProofMoral PanicPrincipal-Agent Problem
Theory Briefing
- A high-profile government effort to find noncitizen voters reportedly produced no significant results, according to the investigation.
- The gap between the scale of the claimed threat and the evidence found puts the burden-of-proof question at the center of the story.
- Sustained institutional resources were directed at a target that the search itself failed to confirm, a classic case of belief preceding evidence.