The man who cries voter fraud: how Hans von Spakovsky has built a career peddling election security fears

At a US House hearing in May, a bespectacled 65-year-old attorney made a startling claim: American citizens’ right to vote was under attack. Non-citizens, Hans von Spakovsky claimed, were voting unchecked in federal elections, and something needed to be done about it.

“We know that aliens are registering and actually voting,” said von Spakovsky, “and it’s important to understand that every vote by an alien voids the vote of a citizen.”