to our democracy than voter fraud. [ screaming ] and no one knows this better than iowa's republican secretary of state matt schultz, who ran for office in 2011 on the signature issue of stamping out voter fraud. in the notoriously corrupt state of, again, iowa. still, he made good on his promise, paying iowa's division of criminal investigation $150,000 to do nothing but root out cases of voter fraud. and after 18 months, guess how many cases of voter fraud turned up? 1,000 cases, you say? okay, 100. how about 50? 25? nope! in a state where more than 1.5 million ballots were cast in the last presidential election, their efforts yielded fraud in, wait for it, 16 cases. 16 cases. five of those cases have resulted in guilty pleas. five others have already been dismissed, and none of the cases have gone to trial. these include such terrifying assaults on democracy like a woman who cast an absentee ballot for her daughter, which