The 2020 campaign has been so contorted by the coronavirus that the Democrats and Republicans are still figuring out how on Earth they&#8217;ll hold virtual conventions. Now imagine how it could make a mess out of November.
As President Donald Trump bizarrely tweeted about delaying the election, the media are starting to admit that mail-in voting might not turn out very well. People inherently know from experience that trusting the U.S. Postal Service with their vote sounds sketchy. Almost everyone has lost something they sent in the mail.
A month ago, The New York Times was throwing the usual darts at Trump for tweeting that mail-in voting would lead to fraud. It was spewing &#8220;fact-checks&#8221; in staunch defense of the integrity of mail-in voting.
Then, reality intruded. The Times published a story headlined &#8220;Mail Carrier in West Virginia Pleads Guilty to Attempted Election Fraud.&#8221; Then it was forced to report from its own city on July 17. The headline and subheading were blunt: &#8220;3 Weeks After Primary, N.Y. Officials Still Can&#8217;t Say Who Won Key Races: Tens of thousands of absentee ballots in New York are still uncounted and many races have yet to be called. What will November look like?&#8221;
Two Times reporters lamented it was &#8220;absurd&#8221; that ballots had been barely counted: &#8220;In the 12th Congressional District, where Representative Carolyn B. Maloney is fighting for her political life against her challenger, Suraj Patel, only 800 of some 65,000 absentee ballots had been tabulated.&#8221; Even now, the Associated Press hasn&#8217;t declared a winner between these Democrats.
This does not inspire confidence. It leaves too much time for cynical conspiracies about manipulation of the results.
The first and foremost reason for these delays is the number of absentee ballots: More than 400,000 were mailed for the June New York City primary, compared with just 76,000 counted in the city in the 2008 presidential election. Now imagine this deluge nationwide. Do we really want to wait weeks to figure out who won which races?
CBS News also attempted to explain how mail-in voting may not be ideal. &#8220;CBS This Morning&#8221; co-host Tony Dokoupil reported that they attempted to mail 100 mock ballots to a post office box in Philadelphia. The early results were terrible. &#8220;Twenty-one percent of our votes hadn&#8217;t materialized after four days,&#8221; he said. That number eventually improved after CBS begged postal workers for assistance, but the test concluded with a shocking 3% failure rate.
Dokoupil concluded: &#8220;(T)hat means three people who tried to vote by mail in our mock election were, in fact, disenfranchised by mail. In a close election, 3% could be pivotal, especially in what&#8217;s expected to be a record year for mail-in voting.&#8221;
This kind of journalism looks like an attempt to test the system &#8220;without fear or favor.&#8221; CBS took the chance to experiment with it and then shared the results even when they weren&#8217;t inspiring, at a time when reporters have stormed around saying there is &#8220;no evidence&#8221; that elections might be hampered.
Voting is a right and an honor, and this year, people have risked their health and stood in long lines to participate in our democracy. The prospect of an orderly election with results the people can have confidence in is looking grim.
In 1984, I cast my first presidential vote for Ronald Reagan with an absentee ballot mailed home to Wisconsin. My father regretted to inform me, after Reagan won in a landslide, that my vote wasn&#8217;t counted. That wasn&#8217;t heartbreaking, but if this election gets messy and isn&#8217;t a landslide, we&#8217;re going to have heartbreak, angst and rage.
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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Mail-in ballots

GRAHAM: Will Democracy Seem Lost In The Mail?

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Trump Campaign Press Secretary Hogan Gidley on Friday offered the recent story of a dead cat receiving a ballot as a reason for being cautious about the integrity of mail-in voting.
During a discussion on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;<a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/6177102382001?playlist_id=5588990584001#sp=show-clips" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Outnumbered Overtime</a>,&#8221; Gidley addressed the recent bipartisan pushback against President Donald Trump for repeatedly <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1288932940337090561" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">questioning</a> the trustworthiness of an election that hinges on universal mail-in voting.
&#8220;Universal mail-ins are a disaster,&#8221; Gidley said. &#8220;The president&#8217;s been very clear about that. The data shows that it&#8217;s rife with all types of ways to cheat. It has a potential for fraud that I think would shock any American, and you see this time and time again in report after report.&#8221;
After referencing troubling issues in California and New Jersey, Gidley mentioned, &#8220;There was even one story where someone&#8217;s cat received a ballot to vote. Now, I understand a lot of viewers may like their cat enough and want them to vote, but this cat has another problem – it was also dead for 10 years. So, it&#8217;s pretty clear the government has a systemic problem with issuing votes across the country, because the American people deserve each individual vote to count on its own.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://apnews.com/fbcec393dc652a9ccdb2cc8aacb15895" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Associated Press</a>, Ron and Carol Tims of Atlanta, Georgia, received a ballot in the mail earlier this month addressed to Cody Tims, their cat who died 12 years ago and whose ashes they keep in a green container. Carol described Cody as &#8220;a great cat, indoor and outdoor, loved his family, loved his neighborhood. He was 18 and a half when he passed away.&#8221;
&#8220;There’s a huge push but if they’re trying to register cats, I’m not sure who else they’re trying to register. I’m not sure if they’re trying to register dogs, mice, snakes,&#8221; she added.
The Secretary of State&#8217;s Office blamed third-party groups for the feline ballot, saying, &#8220;Third-party groups all over the country are targeting Georgia to help register qualified individuals. This group makes you wonder what these out-of-town activists are really doing. Make no mistake about it, this office is dedicated to investigating all types of fraud.&#8221;
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Trump catapulted the issue of mail-in voting to the front of the national discourse earlier this week when he tweeted a video of a CBS News investigation that found a sizable portion of mail-in ballots failed to return in a mock election.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-mail-in-voting-experiment-shows-potentially-serious-issue" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Daily Wire</a> reported earlier this week:
<blockquote>[CBS News &#8220;This Morning&#8221; co-host Tony Dokoupil] sent out 100 mock ballots in the Philadelphia area, using the same size envelope, weight, and class of mail to simulate genuine mail-in votes, albeit without the expedited “Election Mail” insignia. After the post office box was set up, 100 more faux ballots were sent out.
“We’re gonna see somewhere between probably 80 and 100 million voters receiving their ballot that way,” a former Arizona election official told Dokoupil.
After a week, 97% of the ballots Dokoupil mailed had been returned. “Three simulated persons, or 3% of voters, were effectively disenfranchised by mail by giving their ballots a week to arrive,” CBS noted. “In a close election, 3% could be pivotal.” Even four days after mailing the second round of fake ballots, 21% of the fake votes had failed to materialize. Almost half of states allow voters to receive ballots less than half-a-week before the election.</blockquote>
At the memorial for late Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) on Thursday, former President Obama <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-obama-takes-trump-shots-during-hyper-political-eulogy-for-john-lewis" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">blasted</a> Trump for allegedly undermining the postal service. &#8220;Even as we sit here, there are those in power who are doing their darndest to discourage people from voting by closing polling locations, and targeting minorities and students with restrictive ID laws, and attacking our voting rights with surgical precision – even undermining the postal service in the run up to an election that’s going to be dependent on mail-in ballots so people don’t get sick,&#8221; he said.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-mail-in-voting-experiment-shows-potentially-serious-issue" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CBS Mail-In Voting Experiment Shows Potentially Serious Issue</a>
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Trump Campaign Press Secretary Mentions Story Of Dead Cat Allegedly Receiving Ballot To Warn About Mail-In Voting

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President Donald Trump suggested delaying elections over the pandemic on Thursday.
Trump said that an election conducted by mail-in voting would lead to the “most INNACURATE &amp; FRAUDULENT Election in history.” The president has warned against Democratic calls for greatly expanding the absentee voting system for weeks, asserting that U.S. elections would be exponentially more vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
“With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE &amp; FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???” Trump tweeted.
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With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE &amp; FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1288818160389558273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Trump’s Thursday morning tweet is the first time he has suggested delaying the election over the pandemic. The president has previously been a proponent of reopening after states issued strict lockdown orders following the outbreak of the coronavirus in the United States in March.
On Wednesday, Trump tweeted out a video of CBS News conducting an experiment in mail-in voting. “CBS News This Morning” co-host Tony Dokoupil sent out two batches of 100 mock ballots from different locations around Philadelphia and found that, even in his small experiment, some went missing.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-mail-in-voting-experiment-shows-potentially-serious-issue">The Daily Wire</a> reports:
<blockquote>After a week, 97% of the ballots Dokoupil mailed had been returned. “Three simulated persons, or 3% of voters, were effectively disenfranchised by mail by giving their ballots a week to arrive,” CBS noted. “In a close election, 3% could be pivotal.” Even four days after mailing the second round of fake ballots, 21% of the fake votes had failed to materialize. Almost half of states allow voters to receive ballots less than half-a-week before the election.</blockquote>
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Check out this Mail-In Voting experiment by a local news station! <a href="https://t.co/23tOdt1hYc">pic.twitter.com/23tOdt1hYc</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1288616496638255105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Attorney General William Barr has argued that Trump is correct about the danger of mail-in voting, while Democrats have accused Barr of making assertions without evidence. Barr has said that while he lacks evidence, he has “common sense” that suggests a massively expanded mail-in voting system would be chaos.
“Well, it absolutely opens the floodgates to fraud. Those things are delivered into mailboxes. They can be taken out,” Barr said in an <a href="http://dailywire.com/news/attorney-general-william-barr-mail-in-voting-absolutely-opens-the-floodgates-to-fraud">interview</a> on Fox News last month. “There’s questions about whether or not it even denies a secret ballot, because a lot of the states have you signing the outside of the envelope. So, the person who opens the envelope will know how people voted.”
“There’s no – right now, a foreign country could print up tens of thousands of counterfeit ballots, and be very hard for us to detect which was the right and which was the wrong ballot,” Barr continued. “So, I think it can upset and undercut the confidence in the integrity of our elections. If anything, we should tighten them up right now.”
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Trump Suggests Delaying Election Over Pandemic To Avoid ‘FRAUDULENT’ Mail-In Voting

An experiment conducted by CBS News to test the integrity of mail-in voting has led the Republican National Committee (RNC) to warn of &#8220;disaster&#8221; if the upcoming election hinges on it.
Because of the coronavirus, 2020 marks a presidential election in which mail-in voting could play a pivotal role, for which reason &#8220;CBS News This Morning&#8221; co-host <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-vote-by-mail-ballot-counted-election/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tony Dokoupil</a> conducted an experiment with a fake P.O. Box to determine if ballots were adequately counted.
Dokoupil sent out 100 mock ballots in the Philadelphia area, using the same size envelope, weight, and class of mail to simulate genuine mail-in votes, albeit without the expedited &#8220;Election Mail&#8221; insignia. After the post office box was set up, 100 more faux ballots were sent out.
&#8220;We&#8217;re gonna see somewhere between probably 80 and 100 million voters receiving their ballot that way,&#8221; a former Arizona election official told Dokoupil.
After a week, 97% of the ballots Dokoupil mailed had been returned. &#8220;Three simulated persons, or 3% of voters, were effectively disenfranchised by mail by giving their ballots a week to arrive,&#8221; CBS noted. &#8220;In a close election, 3% could be pivotal.&#8221; Even four days after mailing the second round of fake ballots, 21% of the fake votes had failed to materialize. Almost half of states allow voters to receive ballots less than half-a-week before the election.
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Local news’ experiment in mail-in voting ends in disaster: &quot;I just don’t trust the mail&quot;<a href="https://t.co/7FQgp8Q8gP">https://t.co/7FQgp8Q8gP</a> <a href="https://t.co/IHZ441ClTC">pic.twitter.com/IHZ441ClTC</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1288482894894321668?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2020</a></blockquote>
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When Dokoupil inquired about the missing votes, a postal worker was unable to locate them. &#8220;I don&#8217;t see anything back there for you,&#8221; the worker said. &#8220;That&#8217;s all I have back there right now.&#8221; The worker later found them, adding, &#8220;They had them somewhere else.&#8221;
Despite the missing votes, CBS noted, they did receive a misplaced birthday card. &#8220;We got a birthday card from Mike to Ronnie,&#8221; Dokoupil said. &#8220;Have a sweet b-day. Get it? There&#8217;s a bee on top.&#8221;
President Donald Trump has repeatedly taken flak for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-claims-2020-election-will-be-rigged-by-foreign-countries" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">claiming</a> that mail-in voting is potentially rife with voter fraud and subject to interference from foreign governments. Attorney General Bill Barr likewise <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/barr-shreds-democrats-during-hostile-questioning-democrats-wont-condemn-mob-violence-attacks-on-federal-courts" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">maintained</a> in his contentious Tuesday hearing on Capitol Hill that &#8220;common sense&#8221; dictates that foreign entities would seek to interfere in U.S. elections through counterfeit mail-in voting.
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New York Mail-In voting is in a disastrous state of condition. Votes from many weeks ago are missing &#8211; a total mess. They have no idea what is going on. Rigged Election. I told you so. Same thing would happen, but on massive scale, with USA. Fake News refuses to report!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1288602262567153664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2020</a></blockquote>
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According to the U.S. Postal Service, voters should return their mail-in ballots at least one week prior to the election. The postmaster general declined CBS News&#8217; request for an interview, but issued a statement that said in part:
<blockquote>We employ a robust and proven process to ensure proper handling of all Election Mail, including ballots. This includes close coordination and partnerships with election officials at the local and state levels. As we anticipate that many voters may choose to use the mail to participate in the upcoming elections due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are conducting and will continue to proactively conduct outreach with state and local election officials and Secretaries of State so that they can make informed decisions and educate the public about what they can expect when using the mail to vote. As part of these outreach efforts, we will discuss our delivery processes and will consult with election officials about how they can design their mailings in a manner that comports with postal regulations, improves mailpiece visibility, and ensures efficient and cost-effective processing and delivery.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-plan-for-mail-in-voting-could-let-millions-of-ineligible-voters-vote" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Democrat Plan For Mail-In Voting Could Let Millions Of Ineligible Voters Vote</a>
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CBS Mail-In Voting Experiment Shows Potentially Serious Issue

Earlier this year – at the height of the coronavirus pandemic – Wisconsin attempted to keep its primary intact by creating a hybrid system where some people could vote in-person in small numbers at a few polling places while others could request mail-in ballots.
The results were predictably disastrous, which is not to say a similar system with better planning is not possible. On April 7, after the primary, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/us/politics/wisconsin-primary-election.html">reported</a> that Wisconsin’s Democratic primary resulted in long lines, with many residents not receiving their absentee ballots or being unable to return them. The Times predictably tried to downplay the struggles while placing most of the blame on state Republicans, but we now have a better idea of just how bad the problem was in Wisconsin.
The U.S. Postal Service’s internal watchdog released <a href="https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/document-library-files/2020/20-235-R20.pdf">a report</a> on July 7 detailing the failures of Wisconsin’s mail-in ballot system. The report found that many voters either received their ballots late or not at all, with some being sent to the wrong destination. There were four major problems with the attempt detailed in the report, two of which occurred in Milwaukee.
Nearly 400 absentee ballots from Milwaukee voters had issues, including missing or illegible postmarks and some that lacked a postmark date. The Inspector General report said post office officials worked with election officials to validate all but 40 of the postmarks after the election took place. Many Milwaukee voters also reported that they never received their ballots, which they had requested on March 22 and March 23. For some reason, requests from those two particular days were mishandled, though the post office could not figure out a definitive reason, suspecting a computer glitch in a system run by Wisconsin election officials. The ballots lacked intelligent barcodes that would have allowed investigators to track them.
The other problems occurred in two separate communities: Fox Point and Fox Valley. Ballots were misdelivered in Fox Point by a mail carrier who gave around 160 ballots to the village’s election office instead of the actual voters, the report found. This mail carrier &#8220;admitted to not reviewing each ballot to confirm the destination address before returning them to the Fox Point [election office],&#8221; the report found. In addition to this mistake, mail was not logged properly, and the town’s address labels may have led to some issues. Above each resident’s name were the words “Village of Fox Point,” which the IG report suggested led to confusion. Finally, numbers on the labels may have caused sorting machinery to send the mail to the wrong place.
In Fox Valley, about 750 ballots didn’t get to voters earlier enough for them to fill them out and return them. Officials in Appleton, Wisconsin used a third-party mail vendor to deliver the ballots, but the vendor didn’t receive the ballots until the day before the election. The vendor didn’t give the ballots to the post office until 6 p.m. election day, the report found.
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Vote by mail

Wisconsin’s Vote-By-Mail Debacle Was Worse Than You Think

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Attorney General William Barr told Fox News during an interview on Sunday that mail-in voting &#8220;absolutely&#8221; opens the flood gates to voter fraud.
&#8220;Well, there&#8217;s a big discussion right now about mail-in voting,&#8221; Fox News host Maria Bartiromo said. &#8220;Hillary Clinton said, it&#8217;s fine, it&#8217;s fair.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, it absolutely opens the floodgates to fraud. Those things are delivered into mailboxes. They can be taken out,&#8221; Barr responded. &#8220;There&#8217;s questions about whether or not it even denies a secret ballot, because a lot of the states have you signing the outside of the envelope. So, the person who opens the envelope will know how people voted.&#8221;
&#8220;There&#8217;s no – right now, a foreign country could print up tens of thousands of counterfeit ballots, and be very hard for us to detect which was the right and which was the wrong ballot,&#8221; Barr continued. &#8220;So, I think it can upset and undercut the confidence in the integrity of our elections. If anything, we should tighten them up right now.&#8221;
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<blockquote>FOX NEWS HOST MARIA BARTIROMO: Devin Nunes said: &#8220;There is not a more important issue than this issue. The American people are being censored. Conservatives are being censored. The information flowing to the American people is being censored.&#8221;
Are you worried about this going into the election?
ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM BARR: Yes, I am worried about censorship.
I&#8217;m worried about a number of things going into the election. One, the censorship of robust debate. I&#8217;m also worried about undermining the public confidence in the integrity of the elections.
The thing we have going for us, especially when there&#8217;s intense division in the country, is that we have peaceful transfers of power. And our way of resolving it is to have an election.
But when government, state governments start adopting these practices like mail-in ballots that open the floodgates of potential fraud, then people&#8217;s confidence in the outcome of the election is going to be undermined. And that could take the country to a very dark place, if we lose confidence in the outcomes of our elections.
So, that, the censorship has a number of effects. It also – free speech, being able to get your viewpoint out, is a release. It takes some of the pressure out.
If people are prevented from expressing their views, that&#8217;s where you start getting extremism. And so the more ventilating of viewpoints we have, the healthier it is for our country.
BARTIROMO: Well, there&#8217;s a big discussion right now about mail-in voting.
BARR: Yes.
BARTIROMO: Hillary Clinton said, it&#8217;s fine, it&#8217;s fair.
BARR: Well, it absolutely opens the floodgates to fraud. Those things are delivered into mailboxes. They can be taken out.
There&#8217;s questions about whether or not it even denies a secret ballot, because a lot of the states have you signing the outside of the envelope. So, the person who opens the envelope will know how people voted.
There&#8217;s no – right now, a foreign country could print up tens of thousands of counterfeit ballots, and be very hard for us to detect which was the right and which was the wrong ballot.
So, I think it can upset and undercut the confidence in the integrity of our elections. If anything, we should tighten them up right now.</blockquote>

Members Of The Coronavirus Task Force Hold Press Briefing

Attorney General William Barr: Mail-In Voting ‘Absolutely Opens The Floodgates To Fraud’

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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to increased discussion over mail-in ballots for the 2020 presidential election in November. With the possibility of a “second wave” of the virus in the fall, some politicians and media figures have shown support for expanding mail-in accessibility for the general American public.
Politicians and commentators who oppose such efforts have also offered their opinions.
The Daily Wire previously interviewed Catherine Engelbrecht of True the Vote on the topic, which you can read <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/true-the-vote-founder-talks-fraud-and-frighteningly-lax-security-amid-the-push-for-mail-in-voting">here</a>.
On Thursday, we spoke with Tom Ridge, co-chair of <a href="https://votesafe.us/about/">VoteSafe</a>, “a cross-partisan coalition of election administrators and organizations that endorse the simple principle that every American has the right to vote safely amidst the pandemic,” according to the official VoteSafe website.
The organization’s website adds that VoteSafe is “committed to ensuring voters have options: expanded access to absentee ballots as well as safe, sanitary, and accessible in-person voting locations.”
Tom Ridge, former Pennsylvania governor and former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, spoke with The Daily Wire about the current state of mail-in voting, as well as its benefits, the perception of large pitfalls, and what states can do to prepare for the possibility of dramatically expanded mail-in voting.
If you would rather listen to the interview, it can be played via the SoundCloud embed. The written version is below.
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<blockquote>DW: What are the benefits of mail-in voting?
RIDGE: I think there are multiple benefits with mail-in voting that this country&#8217;s probably recognized since the Civil War. They certainly recognize their importance when people chose in 2016, had to go to the polls, and one out of four, 25%, liked the option of absentee ballots. Now, particularly in light of the COVID-19 challenge and the possible reoccurrence in the fall, and just the overall anxiety and the cautious nature that some people may take to any kind of gathering, making sure that voters have a safe and secure option to in-person balloting I think is a good thing.
The exclamation point I would put on that is, I personally think it is not a privilege to vote in America, I happen to think it&#8217;s a responsibility of citizenship. Likewise, I think it&#8217;s up to those who set policy to create safe and secure options for us to exercise that responsibility in a safe and secure way.
DW: On the flip side, what are the potential downsides for mail-in voting?
RIDGE: Well, it is clear that there&#8217;s much public discussion about potential fraud, and I&#8217;ve done a little research in that regard as well. You can&#8217;t say that there hasn&#8217;t been fraud, but I noted one particular study from the Heritage Foundation that reported there were slightly over 1,200 cases of voter fraud in the past 20 years where nearly a quarter of a billion votes had been cast, and resulted in over a thousand convictions. In that group only about, I think, 200-plus involved absentee ballots.
I also think it&#8217;s important and can be emphasized, particularly in November when I think the majority of Republicans and Democrats and Independents, at least now in June, want to make sure that this option is preserved for them on November 3rd, is that when they sign that absentee ballot, they are reminded that there&#8217;ll be some signature matching and there&#8217;ll be other ways to check it. But more importantly, there are both significant financial and potential imprisonment penalties for fraud. So it is nearly perfect, but one has to admit that there are some problems with it.
My friend, my co-chairman of this, is Governor Jennifer Granholm, and her state data showed that between the last ten years – from 2008 to 2018 – there were slightly under 300 election law offenses and a couple of dozen arrests. So again, is it absolutely, positively 100% fail safe perfect? No. But the record is that it&#8217;s minimal at worst, and neither party has historically been advantaged one way or the other by absentee ballots.
The Republican president won a race, by the way, where a quarter of the votes were absentee, but he&#8217;s now the incumbent president. He&#8217;s got a lot of smart people on his campaign staff already. He&#8217;s got this massive war chest and he has millions that follow him electronically. It&#8217;s almost counterintuitive, since he won an election where one out of four ballots were cast by absentee, with all the resources he has at his disposal, not to be encouraging those who can&#8217;t get to the polls by saying, &#8220;Look, you don&#8217;t have to choose between health and your civic responsibility. We&#8217;ll provide safe and secure options. So vote for me absentee if you&#8217;re not going to the polls.&#8221; It&#8217;s almost counterintuitive.
And I suspect when they get around to it, they probably will because they&#8217;ve gotta believe that a lot of Republican and Democrat incumbents and challengers are going to use this opportunity to encourage more absentee ballots rather than fewer.
DW: Could you take me through the process of what the most secure mail-in ballot operations are, from sending it out to the return, and what procedures are in place to maintain security? What are the most common security provisions for mail-in ballots?
RIDGE: Well, there are a couple of things that I understand. I think, again, I don&#8217;t know with granular detail exactly how it works, but I am familiar that some states do signature tracking. Some well-designed absentees systems have [that] the vote can be tracked through the postal service. Signatures in many states are verified against the voter file.
And I guess your question raises a very legitimate question. There are systems in place to track ballots and verify signatures, but they have five more months to embed other systems. In spite of the minimal fraud that&#8217;s existed historically, they now have five months, if they&#8217;re that concerned at the [state level], they have five months to correct it.
DW: On that, there&#8217;s a quote from Pew that did a study that found, &#8220;Approximately 24 million—one of every eight—voter registrations in the United States are no longer valid or are significantly inaccurate, more than 1.8 million deceased individuals are listed as voters, [and] approximately 2.75 million people have registrations in more than one state.” Is this the type of concern when it comes to mail-in security that should be addressed in these upcoming five months?
RIDGE: I think certainly they can, and I think it&#8217;s incumbent upon the individual states. I mean, I know Nancy Pelosi would like to see nationalized elections, and I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s a good thing. It&#8217;s up to the individual governors in the states where we have elected and appointed officials taking care of this. But those numbers would call on anything. Some states have done a better job than others in trying to reduce the potential for fraud.
And I guess even though those statistics are very significant in numbers, the reality is, is that when states have gone in to investigate voter fraud and the abuse of the system, the cases are minimal. They exist, but they&#8217;re minimal.
The concern about widespread fraud has never materialized, and I think, over the years, [states] &#8230; become more and more concerned about its abuse because most policymakers, Republicans or Democrats, want to see more people participate in elections rather than fewer, and one of the best ways of doing that is to further reduce the potential for misuse and abuse, but expand the use of absenteeism.
I voted absentee in the June 2 primary in Pennsylvania, and I want the option in November, and I expect my governor to make sure that the system is not abused.
DW: Advocates against mail-in voting will cite several cases, one of the most prominent being the North Carolina ballot harvesting case from 2018, as a reason that mail-in is susceptible to fraud versus in-person voting, and that there needs to be more security for this type of system. Can you speak about ballot harvesting?
RIDGE: Any time there&#8217;s an abuse, as it was pointed out in North Carolina, it&#8217;s up to the policymakers who recognize the abuse, who&#8217;ve seen the adverse impact on their particular systems, to effectively change it so it doesn&#8217;t happen again. But you don&#8217;t limit the options that other people have. I chair the National Organization on Disability. There&#8217;s a lot of men and women, disabled Americans, who voting by absentee is a very important opportunity for them to exercise their civic responsibility. The military does it. So I&#8217;m not going to quarrel with the fact that there have been instances – and they found it in North Carolina where they&#8217;re harvesting. It&#8217;s an abuse. I condemn the abuse. Then it&#8217;s up to the public officials not to eliminate the option, but to take the appropriate steps, remedial steps, to make sure that it can&#8217;t be abused in that fashion in the future, period.
DW: Going back to the Nancy Pelosi remark, you had said that she would like to see a federalized election system. Can you talk about what a federalized election system would look like and why that might not be a good idea?
RIDGE: You&#8217;re talking to a governor, a Republican governor. The federal system of government, it&#8217;s come into play and sometimes there&#8217;s a conflict in recent days where the President has thought about deploying of active duty troops in the streets to deal with the violence and unrest, and a lot of the governors have said, &#8220;Oh, wait a minute. We don&#8217;t think you’ve got the authority to do it because we didn&#8217;t ask you.&#8221;
So you always have this conflict between the states and the federal government. Across the board, there&#8217;s a lot of issues involved in that, and it&#8217;s not political. It&#8217;s just that there&#8217;s a built-in tension here [between] historically the elected officials and the appointed officials who run local, countywide, and statewide elections, and the federal government. It’s the responsibility of the governors in there to keep it that way. Pure and simple.
I think I know her perspective. It&#8217;s consistent with the broader philosophy she has about government being bigger and broader, and being more involved and potentially invasive, a lot of other things. But in our federal system of government, historically the system of the states overseeing statewide elections has proven, in my judgment, to be preferable than any kind of nationalized system, period.
DW: And what would be the dangers of a nationalized system for voting?
RIDGE: We&#8217;re talking about absentee ballots. If the federal government would like to set some guidelines around absentee ballots, but then again, the danger is disrupting a system that I think has worked pretty well, particularly since we&#8217;ve been using absentee ballots since the Civil War. And so I&#8217;m just, again, as a Republican governor, conservative Republican governor, we can take care of it in Pennsylvania. We don&#8217;t need the feds telling us how to run our election system.
DW: We have five months approximately. Do you think the states, broadly, have the will and ability to get to where they need to be if mail-in is to be expanded because of COVID-19?
RIDGE: Excellent question. One of the first outreach efforts that Governor Granholm and I made was to send letters to the Secretaries of State overseeing the elections in the states and the territories to talk specifically about providing safe and secure options, and encouraging them if they need additional support, and particularly financial support, to reach out to Congress. I mean, there&#8217;s a federal role here, and there&#8217;s a federal role here in a federal system to help states provide safe and secure options for voting. And one of it may just be dollars that can be expended if they&#8217;re needed in the individual states.
Now I happen to think there&#8217;s also a shared responsibility to absorb some of that cost because not every election on November 3 has to do with the federal government. There are a lot of local and county elections, and federal elections. So there&#8217;s a shared responsibility financially for that. We’ve had a couple of responses back from Republicans and Democrats who we think have responded very positively to it. So we&#8217;ve got five months. If you&#8217;ve identified potential abuses, and if you need more people, whatever it is, I&#8217;m not going to tell the governors and the Secretaries of States, but if you feel you need additional help, I think you ought to be calling on Congress to provide it.
And by the way, it&#8217;s not only that voter fraud in this regard that you’ve got to be worried about, [you’ve got to be worried about] cyber influence in the elections as well. Cyber security is a big issue. So put all of these issues together, if you need additional resources, that&#8217;s one area where I do think the federal government has a responsibility to help absorb some of the cost.
DW: My last question is an open-ended one. Is there anything that we haven&#8217;t touched on in this interview, on this topic, that you would want our readership, which is mostly conservative, to know about this topic?
RIDGE: I appreciate the open end question. I would say to the leadership, as we think in terms of our own political philosophy, it&#8217;s this whole notion of individual responsibility and individual accountability, I think is pretty much embedded in our approach toward government and the relationship between government and the individual. And I&#8217;d like to think, based on that philosophy, we would see the federal government potentially as a partner in supporting the financial needs of the states in the federal system of elections.
I&#8217;d also like to think that if you took a look at recent elections, there was a vote driven mostly by absentee ballot in California a couple of weeks ago, and that was won by a Republican who was smart enough in his campaign committee, who was thoughtful enough to maximize their ability to get voters out in support of their candidate. I think we saw the Republican governor in Nebraska, I believe maximized, he had the highest turnout in the primaries ever because he provided a way for additional safe and secure absentee ballots.
So I&#8217;d say if we believe in individual accountability and responsibility, and we also accept the norm that – maybe conservatives would disagree with me, I hope not – but I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a privilege. I think it&#8217;s a responsibility [once every two years] to cast a vote, and I think whether Republican or Democrat alike.
And by the way, in recent polling, Republicans and Democrats and Independents by a vast majority want this option, want the absentee option. I would think we would do everything we can as a group, not only to encourage maximum use, but to encourage the states to do it correctly and to minimize the potential for abuse.</blockquote>
The Daily Wire would like to thank Tom Ridge for taking the time to speak with us about this issue. For more information, you can visit the official VoteSafe website <a href="https://votesafe.us/">here</a>.
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VoteSafe’s Tom Ridge Talks Mail-In Voting, Popularity Of Absentee Ballots, And The November Election

Tom Ridge

Voting Rights

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany laid out the reasons that the Trump administration is against mass scale mail-in voting for the upcoming elections in November, which the Democratic Party <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/497375-house-democrats-include-36-billion-for-mail-in-voting-in-new-stimulus">wants</a>, by specifically highlighting examples of voter fraud that have occurred in the past.
&#8220;First, I want to note that there was a Pew study done that shows there is plenty of reason to believe that mass — in the mass mail-in system, that there is fraud,&#8221; McEnany told reporters during a White House press briefing on Thursday. &#8220;They estimated that approximately 24 million — one out of every eight voters registered in the U.S. — are no longer valid or are significantly inaccurate. So these are people who are on voter registrations that have not been maintained, that have not been kept up. More than 1.8 million have been deceased, they estimated.”
&#8220;And then, when you look and drill down into some of the examples that we&#8217;ve seen in states, Nevada just — I read about this last week and it just really struck me as a perfect example of what the President is concerned about with mail-in ballots and the fraud that can be inherent in that,&#8221; McEnany continued. &#8220;There were ballots — because Nevada mass mailed them out to voter rolls that were piling up in apartment complexes — outside of apartment complexes in Las Vegas, sitting around in trash cans.  This is how we&#8217;re protecting ballots?  It&#8217;s extraordinary.&#8221;
&#8220;Postal workers — one 36-year-old — a 36-year veteran carrier said she&#8217;s never seen anything like these influx of absentee ballots. All of the people had moved or died when she set out to deliver on her first delivery route. And this happened just recently,&#8221; McEnany continued. &#8220;You can go read the articles from last week. She found 65 ballots of people who had moved or died. On her second carry, 100. And then as the week progressed, thousands just sitting in crates. I mean, this is extraordinary. This is not how we should be protecting U.S. ballots.&#8221;
&#8220;In South Carolina, Dems — the Democrats sued to force a rush transfer of mail-in voting. And this happened again recently; I think it was last week. And mail-in ballots for South Carolina turned up in Maryland,&#8221; McEnany continued. &#8220;There&#8217;s another example of 700 suspicious mail-in ballots in Dallas and an individual charged with second-degree felony, illegal voting. And he&#8217;s accused of visiting a woman in April to collect her blank absentee ballot, filling it out, and forging her signature. I mean, this is extraordinary.&#8221;
McEnany concluded, &#8220;And then you go on: There&#8217;s a New Jersey example of over 3,000 ballots that were seemingly set aside. And going to California — you mentioned — California is one of those states that’s notorious for ballot harvesting. And in 2018, the registrar in Orange County said that they reported that his office had people dropping off maybe 100 or 200 ballots at a time. And somehow, in LA County, 112 percent of LA County is registered to vote.&#8221;
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White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Holds Briefing

Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Details Problems With Democrats’ Voting Plans

Democrats

Kayleigh McEnany

Federal law enforcement officials announced on Tuesday that they charged Thomas Cooper, a mail carrier in West Virginia, for alleged attempted election fraud.
&#8220;Cooper, age 47, of Dry Fork, West Virginia, is charged with &#8216;Attempt to Defraud the Residents of West Virginia of a Fair Election.&#8217; According to the affidavit filed with the complaint, Cooper held a U.S. Postal Service contract to deliver mail in Pendleton County,&#8221; The Department of Justice <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndwv/pr/pendleton-county-mail-carrier-charged-attempted-election-fraud">said</a> in a statement. &#8220;In April 2020, the Clerk of Pendleton County received &#8216;2020 Primary Election COVID-19 Mail-In Absentee Request&#8217; forms from eight voters on which the voter&#8217;s party-ballot request appeared to have been altered.&#8221;
Some of the ballots were reportedly changed from Democrat to Republican while other ballots were altered in other ways.
The investigation was conducted by the West Virginia Secretary of State’s office, the West Virginia Election Fraud Task Force, the FBI, and prosecutors from multiple U.S. Attorney&#8217;s offices in West Virginia.
The news comes as Twitter started attaching <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitter-fact-checking-trumps-tweets-using-wapo-and-cnn">warning labels</a> to President Donald Trump’s tweets on Tuesday that led to a series of articles from left-wing media organizations that claimed that Trump’s warnings about fraud coming from mail-in voting were “unsubstantiated.”
The notion that voter fraud does not exist is categorically false as <a href="https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud">thousands</a> have been charged and convicted for voter fraud, <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/docs/pacei-voterfraudcases.pdf">including</a> with respect to using mail in ballots to vote.
Last week, an election official in Philadelphia pled guilty to stuffing ballot boxes with fraudulent ballots for Democrat candidates, with the total number of fraudulent ballots being cast comprising a significant portion of the total votes that were cast.
“During his guilty plea hearing, [Domenick J.] DeMuro admitted that an unnamed political consultant gave DeMuro directions and paid him money to illegally add votes for certain Democratic candidates,” the Department of Justice said in a statement. “These candidates were individuals running for judicial office whose campaigns had hired the consultant, as well as other candidates for various federal, state, and local elective offices who were preferred by this consultant for a variety of reasons.”
“After receiving payments ranging from between $300 and $5,000 per election from the consultant, DeMuro would add fraudulent votes on the voting machines, also known as ringing up votes, for the consultant’s clients and preferred candidates thereby diluting and distorting the ballots that were cast by actual voters,” United States Attorney William M. McSwain said at a press conference. “DeMuro would add these fraudulent votes to the totals during election day and then he would later falsely certify that the voting machine results were accurate. He would add the fraudulent votes by literally standing in the voting booth and voting over and over and over again as fast as he could when he thought that the coast was clear.”
“In May 2014, DeMuro stuffed the ballot box with 27 fraudulent ballots during the primary election. In May 2015, he padded the ballot box with 40 fraudulent votes. In 2016, it was 46 fraudulent votes,” McSwain said. “Now these numbers may sound relatively small, but they made up a significant percentage of the total votes that were cast at the polling place. In 2014, 118 total ballots were reported in the 36th Division of the 39th Ward. That means that DeMuro’s fraudulent votes accounted for over 22% of the total voting in that division in 2014. In 2015, his fraud accounted for over 15% of the total votes in the division. In 2016, his fraud accounted for over 17% of the votes.”
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Mail in ballot

Mail Man Charged With Attempted Election Fraud, Changed Mail-In Ballots That Were Given Out Due To Pandemic, Feds Say

Crime

Election

On Sunday, the Republican National Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee and California Republican Party sued California Governor Gavin Newsom and California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, declaring the executive order that demanded all registered voters in the state receive vote-by-mail ballots an &#8220;illegal power grab&#8221; and a &#8220;recipe for disaster.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-sues-california-newsom-vote-by-mail-order-illegal-power-grab-claim">Fox News</a>, Newsom&#8217;s order would enable inactive voters, including those who have died or moved, to receive vote-by-mail ballots. On May 8, Newsom issued an executive order that said every registered voter would receive a vote-by-mail ballot; Padilla tweeted, “BIG ELECTION NEWS: Every California voter will receive a vote-by-mail ballot for November’s election — and yes, we’ll do our best to maintain safe, in-person voting. This is great for public health, voting rights, and participation in the #2020 election.”
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BIG ELECTION NEWS: Every California voter will receive a vote-by-mail ballot for November&#39;s election — and yes, we’ll do our best to maintain safe, in-person voting. 
This is great for public health, voting rights, and participation in the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/2020election?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#2020election</a>.<a href="https://t.co/6DvluA76G5">https://t.co/6DvluA76G5</a>
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“Registered voters currently living in California will receive a ballot 29 days prior to Election Day. Military members and voters living abroad will get their ballots in the mail 45 days before Election Day,” <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/republicans-sue-california-governor-gavin-newsom-claim-his-vote-by-mail-order-is-illegal-power-grab/">CBS News</a> reported.
In response, the GOP filed a <a href="https://prod-cdn-static.gop.com/media/documents/1_Complaint_1590362477.pdf">complaint</a>, which reads in part:
<blockquote>In a direct usurpation of the legislature’s authority, Governor Newsom issued an executive order purporting to rewrite the entire election code for the November 2020 election. This brazen power grab was not authorized by state law and violates both the Elections Clause and Electors Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The Governor’s Order is invalid and must be enjoined.
Moreover, in his haste, the Governor created a system that will violate eligible citizens’ right to vote. By ordering that vote-by-mail ballots be automatically sent to every registered voter — including inactive voters, voters with invalid registrations, voters who have moved, voters who have died, and voters who don’t want a ballot — he has created a recipe for disaster. No State that regularly conducts statewide all-mail elections automatically mails ballots to inactive voters because it invites fraud, coercion, theft, and otherwise illegitimate voting. Fraudulent and invalid votes dilute the votes of honest citizens and deprive them of their right to vote in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Finally, the Governor reserved for himself the sole discretion to choose if and where in-person voting will occur. Such unbridled discretion, which leads to arbitrary and disparate treatment of individual voters, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.</blockquote>
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel stated, “Democrats continue to use this pandemic as a ploy to implement their partisan election agenda, and Governor Newsom’s executive order is the latest direct assault on the integrity of our elections. Newsom&#8217;s illegal power grab is a recipe for disaster that would destroy the confidence Californians deserve to have in the security of their vote.&#8221;
Padilla countered, &#8220;Expanding vote-by-mail during a pandemic is not a partisan issue — it&#8217;s a moral imperative to protect voting rights and public safety. Vote-by-mail has been used safely and effectively in red, blue, and purple states for years. This lawsuit is just another part of Trump&#8217;s political smear campaign against voting by mail. We will not let this virus be exploited for voter suppression.&#8221;
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GOP Sues CA Gov. Newsom Over Vote-By-Mail Ballots: ‘Illegal Power Grab’

California

Newsom

Republican National Committee (RNC)

With COVID-19 forcing numerous Democratic state primaries to be rescheduled, and with the possibility of a virus resurgence in the fall, many in the media are beginning to focus their attention to a pandemic general election.
One of the ideas being bandied about for November 3 is mail-in voting.
While several states already run entirely mail-in voting processes, and others provide ways to obtain absentee ballots for a variety of reasons, a nationwide mail-in election would be a stunning undertaking.
Many progressives argue for mail-in voting due to ease of use and its potential for increased participation, and many conservatives argue against it because of the generally lax security protocols surrounding the method.
In light of this ongoing debate, The Daily Wire recently spoke with Catherine Engelbrecht, founder and president of True the Vote, an organization “dedicated to election integrity,” according to its official website.
In the interview below, Engelbrecht discusses voter fraud, mail-in security protocol, what certain states are reportedly doing to make mail-in access incredibly easy to obtain, and much more. If you would prefer to listen to the interview rather than read it, the audio can be found at the bottom of this piece. Time stamps will be provided in writing after each question.
<blockquote>DW: Is there evidence of widespread mail-in voter fraud such that it could alter the outcome of a state or national election? (0:03)
ENGELBRECHT: Yes. One that comes to mind – maybe the most notorious of late – happened in 2008 when Al Franken was working to defeat the incumbent Norm Coleman for a Senate position in Minnesota. After months of recounts and new mail-in ballots being discovered each time – each time benefiting Al Franken – the margin finally spread to a point that Al Franken won. They called the election.
He went on to become the final vote necessary for the Affordable Care Act to pass. Without him, the count would have been such that that bill would not have passed.
Then, once all of the dust settled, and there was a closer look given to those ballots that had come in, it was learned that almost 400 of them were cast by convicted felons who had voted illegally. But that wasn&#8217;t known in the flurry of the mail-ins, and it forever altered the direction of our country.
DW: Those 400 tipped the scales? (1:19)
ENGELBRECHT: Right. The margin was 312, and then they came back and found almost 400 that shouldn&#8217;t have counted.
[In a post-interview addition, Engelbrecht said: Another more recent example is out of North Carolina, where a GOP operative was indicted on criminal charges for running an illegal absentee ballot-gathering operation (more <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/central-figure-north-carolina-absentee-ballot-fraud-indicted-multiple-counts-n976991">here</a>). And in any case, regarding the Franken example, numerous reports rightfully raised the question whether he truly would have won – not only because of the felons’ votes (examples <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/felons-voting-illegally-may-have-put-franken-over-the-top-in-minnesota-study-finds">here</a> and <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/york-when-1-099-felons-vote-in-race-won-by-312-ballots">here</a>), but also because of the legal jousting after Election Day, as outlined by the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124640687950076679">Wall Street Journal </a>at the time.]
DW: What are the benefits of mail-in voting, and would the cost-benefit analysis be positive given that it might prevent in-person forms of fraud? (1:34)
ENGELBRECHT: Well, I think that there are instances in which voting by mail is appropriate. Certainly if you&#8217;re elderly or infirm, and you cannot go to a polling place, you need to have a way to still have your voice heard. If you&#8217;re out of the county or out of the state, if you&#8217;re overseas, certainly the military.
Every state has different rules by which they determine absentee standards. I think that those rules work in their states, and that&#8217;s fine. True the Vote is not against mail-in voting. It&#8217;s the notion of mail-in voting without the safeguards that protect against vote fraud. That is really the story here, is that with this push to mail-ins nationwide, what is also being lobbied for and passed in these states are the removal of the fraud provisions – like the removal of the ability to compare signatures, the removal of any form of voter ID. Those are the things that make this process incredibly troubling because there are so few fraud provisions in mail-in to begin with, and the fact that they&#8217;re being now stripped away is going to leave the upcoming general election in a very vulnerable state.
DW: Could you take me through the process of what the allegedly most secure mail-in ballot operations are, from sending it out to the return, and what procedures are in place primarily to maintain security? (3:26)
ENGELBRECHT: Well again, every state manages their process differently, and I&#8217;m the first one to give deference to the fact that states need to be able to run according to their population what makes sense for them. With that in mind, though, to have a process where the voter who is wishing to cast that ballot by mail can apply for an absentee ballot and be given a serialized ballot that&#8217;s attached to that voter&#8217;s name, that offers some form of identification, and a signature, and ideally some form of witness, and then have that sent back in a secured envelope for review by a ballot review board that confirms all of the requisite information, including a signature verification.
But that process in and of itself is challenging enough to manage at the current levels. You take this now and you grow it exponentially, and the very few safeguards that are attendant in the process being stripped away, there&#8217;s no rational way to believe that we&#8217;re going to have a process that results in a free, and fair, and accurate count.
DW: Can you talk about some of those specific actions that are being taken in certain states to what you call &#8220;strip away the securities&#8221;? (5:16)
ENGELBRECHT: Absolutely, and in fact we&#8217;ve gone so far as to start an initiative where we are suing states that are taking such extreme measures to force this new process, if you will.
To give you some examples, in Virginia, the governor there – which True the Vote is suing the governor of Virginia for this very reason – in order to enact mail-in voting across the state instantly, the governor declared everybody in Virginia to be disabled, which would then meet the standard for their purposes to usher in full mail-in. Along with that, he removed the security provisions of signature comparison, and removed some of the standards around postmarks.
Again, those are the threadbare ways to affirm the accuracy, the integrity of a ballot – and they are being taken away in Virginia.
In Nevada, another place where we&#8217;re suing, the secretary of state there, by administrative fiat, announced that the whole state was going to be mail-in, and same thing, she removed the signature provisions. Then you saw another lawsuit being filed by the Democratic Party in Clark County that was settled in a friendly mystery agreement that we still haven&#8217;t been able to lay eyes on. A bizarre situation.
But one of the outcomes, according to Marc Elias&#8217; tweets anyway, was that Clark County had agreed to hire vote harvesters. Even though vote harvesting is illegal in the state of Nevada, Clark County is now putting them on their payroll. So, there&#8217;s a lot of moving parts and pieces to this, [that] I believe points to a much broader narrative that is not about providing a safe and secure environment during a health crisis by way of mail-ins. I think it&#8217;s about exploiting the weaknesses of a process, and manipulating those weaknesses to advantage, and it&#8217;s happening with breathtaking speed.
DW: Prior to my question about what True the Vote is going to be trying to do to make this process more secure, I have one more question about potential voter fraud. That is, and you just mentioned it, is ballot harvesting a widespread issue in states with mail-in voting? (7:57)
ENGELBRECHT: Absolutely, and becoming more so. If Nancy Pelosi has her way, ballot harvesting is going to be standard fare. What ballot harvesting does specifically is, it empowers community organizers, special interest groups, to both distribute and collect ballots, without limitation. That has so many problems attendant to it, we could go through them all – but the one that always comes to mind for me first is what this means in vulnerable communities, particularly in communities where you have a higher population of the elderly, who can be intimidated.
Here in Texas, we&#8217;re part of a case that was filed with the secretary of state and attorney general that proved up ballot harvesting in nursing homes, and how these harvesters were using the residents in ways that were abusive toward these same ends.
Vote harvesting goes well beyond the pale of what many states do to give the opportunity for a close family member or friend to bring in a ballot. Rather, vote harvesting is a free-for-all where these groups are bidding for money to collect as many as they can, distribute as many as they can, and it turns the entire intent on its head, and doesn&#8217;t serve the voters well.
DW: What does True the Vote want to do to make the mail-in voting process more secure, especially as it might become more prevalent because of COVID-19? (10:10)
ENGELBRECHT: True the Vote believes strongly, our reason for existence is, that every eligible voter should have assurance that their vote counts, and is counted, that they can be heard through their voice of the vote, and mail-in ballots are going to muddle that in ways that frankly are going to be hard to get ahead of because of the volume of paper that&#8217;s going to be hitting these county offices, these municipalities, that just aren&#8217;t set up to deal with it. So, on the front end, what we&#8217;re trying to do is in the courts, trying to stop as much of this wanton disregard for the constitutionality of protecting the right to vote, not diluting your vote, and we&#8217;re trying to stop it.
However, certainly no matter what happens, the absentee provision is going to raise the number of mail-in ballots that are going to hit the states, no matter how you look at it. So to that end, we are training volunteers to work inside of the counties&#8217; offices, as volunteers for mail-in ballot review boards, for canvassing boards, to try to help assure that processes are followed because we&#8217;re going to need millions of hands on deck for these manual processes that are going to have to be relied upon for the purposes of tallying these votes.
On the front end, we&#8217;re just trying to uphold the Constitution in the courts. On the other end, we&#8217;re mobilizing volunteers to do what they can to help assure that the rule of law is followed inside of those counties and municipalities.
DW: Do you foresee a future where mail-in balloting could become the norm and still be secure? (12:22)
ENGELBRECHT: No. I do foresee, if Americans don&#8217;t take hold of this issue and engage, I do foresee a future where our elections are federalized, and mail-in or even online voting, could become the only option provided. But is that going to be secure? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. And it&#8217;s a disgrace because in the age of Amazon one-click, there&#8217;s no reason to not have a system in place now where you can validate identity, residency, and citizenship in real time, where you can securely provide a process that, at minimum, has a standard of voter ID. We&#8217;re the only industrialized country in the world that doesn&#8217;t use a standard for voter ID.
Other countries look at our process and laugh, and the only explanation for why our process is as porous as it is, is that it can be used to partisan advantage. That&#8217;s the only reason that we don&#8217;t solve this. Because it is solvable. It&#8217;s just so easy to manipulate it that the interest is not there to push a free and fair process for fear of what it may show.
DW: Is there anything that we haven&#8217;t touched on in this interview that you are interested in expressing or getting across to our readership? (14:20)
ENGELBRECHT: This is about so much more than mail-in ballots. This is about a fundamental, strategic, long-planned effort to upend elections, and it just so happens to coincide with a health crisis that is being used in full measure to exploit these processes. Americans are such, we&#8217;re such trusting people, and we so want to believe that this process of our elections is still steeped with honor and integrity. There is a movement afoot now across this country, hundreds of millions of dollars are being pushed into exploiting this mail-in ballot opportunity, and removing all of the attendant fraud provisions.
If we don&#8217;t do something now, we are looking at having our presidency decided in the courts, we are looking at a system that could very well implode, and it will lay the perfect trap for the federalization of elections. This is a very serious situation – every day there&#8217;s a new lawsuit filed to impact the situation in ways that destabilize the process.
Americans should take hold of this now, and wake up, because this year, just voting isn&#8217;t going to be enough. We need as many people willing to participate in the process, willing to speak out, willing to be working inside of those county offices, reviewing the ballots, and upholding the integrity of the process, and just reclaiming the process broadly. We&#8217;ve for so long ceded this ground to the government and thought, &#8220;Oh, well, they&#8217;ve got this all under control.&#8221; We&#8217;re about to see, no they do not.
Don&#8217;t exchange convenience for security. Don&#8217;t believe the hype. It is not as it is being presented.</blockquote>
Listen to the full interview (aside from the post-interview addition noted above) here:
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The Daily Wire would like to thank Catherine Engelbrecht for taking the time to speak with us about this issue.
For more information about True the Vote, click <a href="https://truethevote.org/news/">here</a>.
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True The Vote Founder Talks Fraud And Frighteningly Lax Security Amid The Push For Mail-In Voting

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Maryland election officials were surprised to discover they had been sent absentee ballots from South Carolina mixed with their own. South Carolina is now considering cutting ties with the printer who apparently made the error.
On Wednesday, Baltimore Sun reporter Emily Opilo tweeted about a “crazy tidbit.”
“Maryland election officials found a bunch of ballots from South Carolina mixed in with their shipments to Baltimore. They use the same vendor. I just talked to an elections official in SC, and he says they&#8217;re ready to dump the company,” Opilo wrote.
“SC&#8217;s statewide primary is June 9. As of this week, an unknown number of Charleston&#8217;s ballots were here in Baltimore. An SC official says they were losing confidence in the mail vendor even before this happened. An entire county didn&#8217;t get presidential ballots in Feb,” she added.
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SC&#8217;s statewide primary is June 9. As of this week, an unknown number of Charleston&#8217;s ballots were here in Baltimore. An SC official says they were losing confidence in the mail vendor even before this happened. An entire county didn&#8217;t get presidential ballots in Feb.
— Emily Opilo (@emilyopilo) <a href="https://twitter.com/emilyopilo/status/1263192462329360385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Post and Courier <a href="https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/after-charleston-absentee-ballots-found-in-maryland-sc-considers-cutting-ties-with-printer/article_1da1a578-9ad8-11ea-a600-d3ff845d1c9b.html">reported</a> that same day that South Carolina election officials are considering whether to have “counties cut ties to a Minnesota printer after about 20 Charleston County absentee ballots were found in Maryland.”
“The ready-to-mail ballots have since made their way to Charleston-area voters, state and county election officials said, but it is just the latest problem with SeaChange Print Innovations, which prints and mails absentee ballots for 13 S.C. counties,” the outlet reported. “Some Greenville County voters received the wrong absentee ballots this year when the Democratic presidential primary and a special election for sheriff were held 10 days apart, S.C. Election Commission spokesman Chris Whitmire said.”
Some ballots were also folded in such a way that may interfere with scanning machines’ ability to read them, Whitmire also told the outlet.
Whitmire also expressed concerns that SeaChange could handle the general election, given the issues so far in the primary and local elections.
“We’re not getting a warm and fuzzy feeling that they can handle this,” Whitmire told the outlet. “We are actively seeking sustainable solutions.”
The issue comes as several states have considered or enacted policies that allow vote-by-mail opportunities due to social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic – to varying degrees of success. Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nevadas-vote-by-mail-primary-fraud-concerns">reported</a> last week that Clark County election officials sent ballots to inactive voters, something Republicans argue can increase voter fraud.
“Anyone can turn in a ballot they pick off the ground,” Keith Schipper, communications director for the Nevada Trump Victory, told Fox. “This is a dangerous proposition.”
Another concern with mail-in ballots is the potential for ballot harvesting, where a single person collects dozens, even hundreds of ballots and delivers them at once. In Orange County, California, for example, a record 250,000 mail-in-ballots were counted.
“People were carrying in stacks of 100 and 200 of them. We had had multiple people calling to ask if these people were allowed to do this,” Neal Kelley, the registrar for voters in Orange County, said, according to Fox.
“Several states have enacted some restrictions on the practice, while others have expressly allowed it or failed to regulate it at all. According to a 2019 analysis by Ballotpedia, 24 states and the District of Columbia permit someone chosen by the voter to return mail ballots on their own, with nine of those states adding some specific exceptions,” Fox reported. “Twelve states outline who specifically can return ballots (such as family members or caregivers); and one state explicitly requires that only voters can return their ballots. Eleven states establish a limit on the number of ballots that a so-called &#8220;harvester&#8221; can return.”
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South Carolina Absentee Ballots Found In Maryland

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Alyssa Milano is a walking series of contradictions.
After leading the charge to vilify Brett Kavanaugh with unfounded claims while proclaiming that every woman’s claim of sexual assault be believed without question, suddenly, she’s quiet and very concerned “giving men their due process” when Tara Reade accuses her presidential candidate Joe Biden of sexual assault.
And she strongly believes in social distancing … That is until she realized that suspending all elective medical procedures includes abortion. Now, she suddenly wants people to have freedom to visit the doctor &#8230; But only if you’re having an abortion, of course.
Now, she’s waded into the controversy over the Democrats’ push to do a nationwide vote-by-mail in the November election. And of course, her latest round of mental gymnastics did not fail to disappoint.
First, she argues that we absolutely must have nationwide vote-by-mail because it’s just too dangerous to go outside with COVID-19 lurking around every corner. (Unless, of course, you want to have an abortion, then you should absolutely put COVID-19 concerns aside.)
Oh, and Alyssa says you can also go outside to vote early. Because in the very same article where she says the only safe approach is casting mail-in ballots, she proposes that the government also spend more money to increase sanitization efforts at early voting locations. One would assume that Alyssa would only deem early voting locations in Democrat neighborhoods as clean and safe. With her latest cause celebre, Milano is not unlike her fellow Democrats who were also breathlessly advocating for mail-in balloting over serious health concerns … That is until their candidate was losing badly in a recent CA congressional election. Suddenly, the health concerns were over and in-person polling places began to pop up.
Of course, Alyssa doesn’t make any mention of the fact that hundreds of people crowd into Walmart and Costco every day, and yet somehow manage to still follow social distancing guidelines – not to mention the food-to-go at McDonalds or Chick-fil-A isn’t overwhelming hospitals with new COVID patients.
But trust Alyssa that going out to vote is too dangerous &#8230; Unless you are voting early and stopping by Walmart on the way home. Then, you’re in the clear.
And Alyssa wants to assure you, with her never wavering or changing convictions, that mail-in voting carries no risk of fraud or abuse. Out of charity, let us assume that she was simply ignorant of the fact that last year <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/07/30/746800630/north-carolina-gop-operative-faces-new-felony-charges-that-allege-ballot-fraud" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.npr.org/2019/07/30/746800630/north-carolina-gop-operative-faces-new-felony-charges-that-allege-ballot-fraud&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1589822895921000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFip1neAaO6jv9htDw8ycKvcVZJLw">a political operative in North Carolina</a> (a Republican, mind you) was charged with fraud when he ordered people to request and fill out absentee ballots for other people.
And if the concern from fraudulent people on the voter rolls isn’t already high enough, Alyssa proposes we start letting people register to vote online, ensuring that someone’s name can be registered to an address that will then have a ballot mailed to it, all without ever having to be verified as a real person, let alone an actual resident.
Oh, and Alyssa thinks we should get started right away, even though the states that do use mail-in balloting invested a lot of time and money before they could implement it. Also, with all the staffing issues and limitations on workplace gatherings right now, are we to assume that state government workers are all of the sudden supposed to throw together mail-in voting procedures that other states took years to get in place?
All of those concerns and procedures should be thrown aside, because Alyssa says COVID is just too dangerous (unless you’re getting an abortion, voting early or going to Starbucks &amp; Costco.) But maybe I’m just being cynical about Alyssa and other Democrats’ latest election schemes, maybe I’ll be a little more receptive to their ideas for voting when they finally figure out who really won their Iowa Caucus.
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BRYAN: The Hypocrisy Of Alyssa Milano Returns

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According to one researcher, if the Democrats succeed in their <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/coronavirus-has-ignited-battle-over-voting-my-mail-here-s-n1178531">hopes for implementing nationwide mail-in voting</a>, as many as 24 million ineligible voters could vote. The Pew Research Center <a href="https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/about/news-room/press-releases-and-statements/2012/02/14/pew-one-in-eight-voter-registrations-inaccurate-51-million-citizens-unregistered">reported</a> in 2012 that state voter rolls include 24 million ineligible or inaccurate voter registrations, stating, “Approximately 24 million voter registrations in the United States—one of every eight—are no longer valid or have significant inaccuracies, according to the Pew Center on the States&#8217; Election Initiatives.”
Government Accountability Institute (GAI) research director Eric Eggers told <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/07/exclusive-eric-eggers-democrat-plan-could-mail-ballots-to-24m-ineligible-voters/">Breitbart News Tonight</a>:
<blockquote>The concern I have if we’re trying to mandate national mail-in elections — which by the way was part of the language that Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats inserted in the first version of the most recent stimulus package — would be that we have such massive problems with voter rolls in this country. So, now are we going to be mailing ballots to people that authentically don’t exist and or are ineligible voters?</blockquote>
He continued:
<blockquote>If you have national mail-in ballots where the supervisor of elections are mailing ballots to everybody on the voter rolls and we know per Pew [Research] Center statistics that we’ve got at least 24 million flawed or inaccurate voter registrations in this country. That’s 24 million ballots that are potentially going to people with the wrong address or to people that are dead or to people that have double registered.
You’ve got these paid political machines whose job it is to manipulate or to capitalize on those errors … the other problem I’d have is another part that was mandated in the Democrat-version of the stimulus bill which would be the legalization of … national ballot harvesting … Democrats are so concerned about the necessity of social distancing but by legalizing ballot harvesting, you’re literally sending in many cases young potentially asymptomatic carriers of the [coronavirus] to the homes of these vulnerable populations including the elderly and the infirm who we all know are more susceptible to the virus.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/voting-by-mail-would-reduce-coronavirus-transmission-but-it-has-other-risks">Pro Publica</a> noted in mid-March, “There is bipartisan consensus that mail-in ballots are the form of voting most vulnerable to fraud. A 2005 commission led by President Jimmy Carter and James A. Baker III — George W. Bush’s secretary of state — concluded that these ballots “remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.” Ballot harvesting scandals, in which political operatives tamper with absentee ballots that voters have entrusted to them, have marred recent elections in North Carolina and Texas.”
Pro Publica added, “States have varying standards for verifying that a ballot was sent by the proper voter. Generally, mailed ballots require voters to sign the back of the envelope, and that signature is compared to signatures on file. Some states — like Colorado — match signatures using software. Others have trained staff in forensic signature verification. But some states and counties still rely on poorly trained poll workers.”
J. Christian Adams of the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) said if states aren’t careful, they’ll offer “an open invitation to fraud,&#8221; telling <a href="https://www.insidesources.com/mail-in-ballots-make-voter-fraud-easy-i-know-because-i-did-it/">Inside Sources</a>, “There are two big problems with vote by mail. Number one are the sort of things we discovered in the Justice Department when I was there — of people voting the ballot for other people through undue influence. That’s the first one. The second one — the voter rolls are a mess.”
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