Our entire election system was designed for in-person voting. We do not have the administrative infrastructure to ensure a clean election, and absentee ballots are cast outside the supervision of election officials and outside the presence of election observers.
The absentee ballot system introduces huge blind spots in the chain of custody. It is in these blind spots where abuses often occur.
Hans von Spakovsky joined Fox News on June 27, 2020, to discuss the issue.
For more on the issue: https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/commentary/all-mail-election-would-be-dangerous-democracy
Hans von Spakovsky is an authority on a wide range of issues – including civil rights, civil justice, the First Amendment, immigration, the rule of law and government reform — as a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. As manager of the think tank’s Election Law Reform Initiative, von Spakovsky also studies and writes about campaign finance restrictions, voter fraud and voter ID, enforcement of federal voting rights laws, administration of elections and voting equipment standards.
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The only way the vote can be hacked is if the electronic voter ID databases are compromised. Simply mailing in a fraudulent ballot won’t count as a vote, all paper and mail-in ballots are compared to an electronic database first. This is true in every state, even those that vote in-person and especially with electronic voting machines. Comparing paper to electronic records is how they detect and investigate voter fraud in the first place.
YOU FAILED TO MENTION THIS IN YOUR REPORT … https://youtu.be/L6sRu8lZAc8
Decadent demonc rats party wanted the mail in ballot to scam the election. What people can send kids to school, go to grocery, ride even cramp airline and cannot go out to vote?
Like joe?
This is the dumbest shit I've heard this week.
We've had mail in voting since the 60's
Trump is actively removing booths, mailboxes, and filing stations in post offices because he "suspects fraud "
Not only that but he is working with Russia to get re-elected and you dumb sacks of shit still support him??
How dumb can you be I'm amazed!
Hateful, demonc rats party wanted to scam the election. Please do not send your ballots via USPS mail… Carry it with you and personally bring it to the voting center and drop it….
This is obvious conspiracy theory nonsense. Out of millions of votes cast, 31 were found to be fraudulent, as experts and academics have proven emphatically. It's like rank flat earth stupidity, only much, much more serious. To paraphrase Lincoln: you can fool some of the people all of the time.
Read what fox news had to say about Colorados mail in ballots system. Even Donald Trump admits he has no proof of fraud. Funny the article from fox news says the greatest threat is Russian agents putting doubt about election security into the minds of Americans and we have a president doing exactly that.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/colorado-seen-as-model-for-election-security
"…You can SAFELY and securely vote…by returning in your mail in ballot…" ~ Lara Trump (RNC robo call)
Desperate!! It is fraud just like filling out someone else's credit card offer! or cashing someone else's check!! That is why there are laws for people caught attempting fraud!! I would be concerned of someone cashing a check vs. trying to vote for me.
39-40 states allow you to check if your ballot was received. If one checks on election day and ballot is not recorded that morning than one can go vote on 11/3 by requesting a provisional ballot due to concern ballot may be delayed or lost. There you go.
Google "nbc can i check my ballot" select box with text "can i track my ballot" – Plan Your Vote website.
The More You Know.
. I’m seriously asking this question.
. If you care about our elections, please respond!
For what good purpose should who you vote for be held in secrecy? In order to maintain legitimacy in our elections voters should be given a receipt of their vote with a unique identifier and if the total results are posted publicly and electronically providing the voters identifier and who they voted for is the only way we can know for certain that our elections are not compromised. Those ballots not counted should also be public information and held for accountability.
Are you for or against this?
Do you think this is possible?
If this can be done for the Nov. 3, 2020 election would you support it even if imposing this could cause a delay in the election? Providing your reasoning could be very helpful. thank you
The Republican Voter Fraud Mythology of modern times may have begun down here in San Diego where the Carl Rove administration fired our U.S. Attorney along with a large bunch of others across this Nation. The stated commonality of wrongdoing at the time was that those Federal Prosecutors would not pursue cases for what former Congressman Bob Dornan and current Congressman Darryll Issa were describing as "voter fraud." Some years before, Dornan contended much of the same thing when he lost to Loretta Sanchez which would up in a rather ugly public display of embarrassment for the former Congressman. Despite these ostensible P/R setbacks, Republicans saw red meat when they talked about the "voter fraud" issue on talk radio which turned out to be a methodology for road testing ideas about how the Democrats have been cheating in elections by purposely utilizing voter fraud to win elections that should have been won by Republicans. This was a good and reasonable "sell" to an all too egomaniac cohort of the populace ready to blame anyone but themselves and their own ideas for loosing elections.
I want to know if someone is investigating the Project Veritas video by James Okeefe about Ilhan Omar & a city council member whose brother in law videotaped himself with Hundreds of blank ballots from a Senior Apt Complex in Minneapolis?? It's illegal to have more than 3 at a time?? MSM won't touch this…
Hans was the model for “the Joker.”
Is this worth an insurrection? Hmm. Ask the RNC. What kind of nonviolent army would Gandhi amass now and where would he put it? He said, “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” If you believe, never give up. Fingerprint every ballot. Let it take forever if needed. You don’t need ID; just recurrent correlations of telltale signs and habitual behavioral patterns of the same signer to reveal, I.e., trace out rapid, habitual signing-repetition patterns and tell the story. They didn’t wear gloves. And now, start checking dumped trash bins for the gloves they will start wearing.
Your suspicions materialized today Mr. spakovsky….
"PRESIDENT TRUMP PREDICTED BACK IN MAY OF THIS YEAR, THAT SCHUMER AND PELOSI WERE LAYING THE FRAME WORK FOR A MASSIVE NATIONAL MAIL-IN BALLOT VOTER FRAUD SCHEME FOR THE UPCOMING 2020 ELECTION. THEY KNEW JOE BIDEN WAS THE WEAKEST "SENILE" CANDIDATE TO RUN AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP IN EARLY SUMMER, "SO THE FIX WAS IN" PELOSI AND SCHUMER PUBLICLY SAID "THAT ALL OPTIONS WERE ON THE TABLE, SPEAKING OF OPTIONS IN MAKING SURE PRESIDENT LOST THE ELECTION! HOW COULD JOE BIDEN BE WINNING PENNSYLVANIA A FOSSIL FUEL STATE AFTER HE SAID "HE WOULD BE BANNING FRACKING AND MOVING AWAY FROM OIL INDUSTRY" WHY WOULD THE HARD WORKING PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA WOULD VOTE THEM SELF'S OUT OF A JOB, THERE WERE MASSIVE ILLEGAL DUMPS OF BIDEN MAIL-IN BALLOTS AT 4:00 PM IN THE MORNING!
South Korea's rigged election on 4/15/2020 was done very much the same way.
Why do you people keep confusing MAIL-IN BALLOTS with ABSENTEE BALLOTS. I am older & have been using ABSENTEE BALLOTS for years. My signature has been confirmed, etc. MAIL-IN ballots have been concocted just this past year, by Democrats, with the excuse that citizens would want these to avoid Covid exposure. MAIL-IN. BALLOTS are totally unverifiable & used by corrupt pollsters to Harvest votes & other abuses. Please clarify this distinction.
And if a man hold a family hostage till the parents vote Biden is it fraud then?