“I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally,” Donald Trump said shortly after his 2016 election. There’s absolutely no evidence millions of illegal votes were cast in that or in any other American election. It was one of many, many outrageous fabrications by the 45th president.

That Trump spoke about it with wanton disregard for the truth, however, doesn’t mean that voter fraud isn’t a problem.