If we say voter fraud exists, but it's not "widespread", is that enough?

The heritage foundation has a list of thousands of individual instances of voter fraud. And with every single one of them you could say "well that can't affect the presidential election". Well....then why have thousands of people done it?? Why would anyone risk criminal prosecution and prison time just to fake-vote?

Because it works.

You can take a busload of people from one polling place to another and elect yourself a sherrif, a city councilor, a tax collector, a state representative, a judge, or any number of powerful political positions on a local level.

So if the entry levels of government are corrupt, then how can you have a functional bureaucracy that serves the people?

If the good guys can't get it in......then who is getting in?