The New York Times has adopted wholesale the Democratic Party’s line on voter fraud and election laws and isn’t trying to hide it. David Leonhardt, in his April 7 newsletter, flatly misled his readers, favoring narrative over facts.

Leonhardt wrote, as if undisputed fact, the following false assertion: “Voter fraud is exceedingly rare. There is no reason to believe it has determined the outcome of a single U.S. election in decades.”