Trump’s voter-fraud fraud

Good riddance to President Trump’s dangerous and dishonest attempt to make it tougher for Democrats to vote under cover of combating infinitesimally rare ballot-box fraud. Last year, Trump, miffed that he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by 3 million, blamed illegal immigrants — who else? — and tasked an ideologue-led commission with documenting, then rooting out, fraudulent exercise of the franchise.

The inevitable, and dastardly, prescription: ever more stringent voter-ID laws, which disproportionately disqualify legitimate Democratic voters.

It was a farce from the start, as state election officials of both parties balked at federal intrusion to investigate a trumped-up plague.

And it was a farce to the end, as the President blamed “many mostly Democrat states” for failing to turn over data and asserted, again without evidence, that “many people are voting illegally.”

Now comes the pressing question: Do Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans actually care about the integrity of the vote?

Last year’s election revealed that wide-scale electronic interference is a clear, present threat. While no votes were changed, Russia-linked hacks breached election systems in 39 states.

Congress needs to invest, right away, in the cybersecurity of state election systems. The bipartisan Secure Elections Act would do that. Pass it.