It is Comforting That Mail in Balloting is Never Fraudulent

[Rocky17]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/georgia-primary-voted-twice-secretary-state

150,000 in Georgia alone tried to vote twice and 1000 succeeded. WTF.  You think in strongly Dem precincts in inner cities this will be caught and punished?

[Legend]

Is it true that states are sending out ballots unsolicited?  I heard trump say that yesterday.  If that is true, that is an awful precedent.

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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)

[Rocky17]

Very true.  Michigan among them.  California.  Oregon apparently has done it for years.  Beeg Dawg would know.

[Beeg_Dawg]

Oregon has had vote by mail for over 20 years.  Washington went vote by mail in 2004.

Neither state sends out ballots “unsolicited”.  Ballots are sent to registered voters.  In Washington, voters must sign the envelope so the signature is checked against what is on file.

I have not seen any conclusive evidence mail in voting is more subject to fraud than walk in.  In 2018, 142 faudulent votes out of 3.2 million ballots cast in Washington. History has shown walk in voting has it own problems and fraud.

The real problem is states that don’t have vote by mail will have a logisitical nightmare receiving, counting and validating results in a timely basis. This is from an interview with Kim Wyman, Washington Sec of State.

“WYMAN: Well, you know, when you look at the states that have moved to vote-by-mail or are moving currently to vote-by-mail, it’s taken them, you know, five to 10 years to do that because you need to build in the capacity for the volume. You need to have high-speed ballot sorters and envelope sorters to deal with the incoming mail. And right now the question is, is that equipment even in the supply chain? Is it even available? You also need to build up the staffing and the space requirements, especially in COVID-19, to be able to have that machinery to have that production.

So I think that it’s a heavy lift for states that are in low percentage of absentee ballots currently, like, you know – like Tennessee, where you see 2% of their ballots cast by mail. They could probably have an expansion of absentee voting, but they couldn’t make the switch completely to vote-by-mail between now and November.”

It would not surprise me if this election is decided in the House.

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