Once again, the Supreme Court has drawn a line between political anxiety and legal reality, declining to impose new restrictions on mail-in voting despite the Trump administration's persistent claims of electoral vulnerability. The decision lands against a backdrop of data — compiled by the Brookings Institution across four election cycles — showing confirmed mail voter fraud at a rate of four cases per ten million ballots cast, a figure that approaches statistical invisibility. In the long arc of democratic governance, the tension between the fear of fraud and the evidence of its rarity remai