By Bill Arnett

...How many tried and failed?

Anytime I see people complaining about tens of thousands (or millions) of illegal voters I have to scratch my head. Are they suggesting that 100,00 people attempted to and flawlessly, with a 100 percent success rate, voted illegally? Out of how many attempts? Statistics demands some must have been turned away. In Japan, 14,000 people die getting in and out of the bathtub, and in this country millions of people vote illegally without fail? There should be a mountain of data of all of the people who tried and were caught.

Our president has claimed that three to five million people voted illegally. Sure, let's assume that's true. To pull that off, clearly, they would have to be highly organized. Maybe 9/11-level organized. While there is some debate over the 20th hijacker, let's assume that, yes, the 20th hijacker was apprehended (or at least deterred) before taking part. That's a 5 percent failure rate. Applying that same failure rate to say, splitting the difference, 4,000,000 illegal votes, there should be 200,00 failures. That's the entire population of Birmingham, Alabama.

It's hard enough to hide your nefarious successes but harder still to hide your failures. Ask a bank robber — it's the botched jobs that get you caught. I told my wife this and she just rolled her eyes. "Why are you even giving credence to anything that man says."