In response, VPC representatives cited a study from the Brennan Center for Justice, which suggested that cases of "voter fraud" are very rare and critics are overstating concerns.

In addition, critics have often overstated the simplicity of even early minimalism.

Whiting has also written on why the critics of the Book of Mormon on DNA issues have overstated their case.

The turbulence made everyone a little woozy, but critics overstated the case when they heaped blame on the new media.

Supporters of the new law contend that its critics overstate the limitations of filtering programs.

Mr. Bloomberg said critics had overstated the rivalry between the Police and Fire Departments and the impact that the agencies' generations-old feuding had on Sept. 11.

He also said critics were overstating concerns about the farm bill.

"The decline in the last six Vance books is so steep that the critic who called the ninth of them one more stitch in his literary shroud was not overstating the case."

Contending that the critics overstated the case, Dr. Schneiderman said that the biotechnological approach was less dangerous than the use of toxic chemicals and drugs in food production.

His defenders also claimed that the critics had greatly overstated the degree of Wilson's biological determinism.