On Thursday, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals gave the GOP a victory in Minnesota, ruling that Minnesota absentee ballots must be physically received by 8 p.m. on Election Day in order to be counted.
“Previously, a ballot that was postmarked Nov. 3 would still be counted so long as it arrived within a week,” CBS Minnesota reported, adding, “<a href="https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/15909630/2020/10/8th-Circuit-Court-of-Appeals-MN-absentee-ballot.pdf">The ruling says</a> that the plaintiffs — Secretary of State Steve Simon’s office — did not show that they were entitled to relief amid the continuing COVID-19 pandemic.”
The Minnesota Republican Party stated, “We applaud the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals for upholding the integrity of the election and affirming Election Day as November 3rd. The pandemic has caused upheaval in many areas of life but hiding behind the pandemic to manipulate the election process is not democratic, and we appreciate that our laws and interpretation of those laws matter.”
“As of last Friday, there were 578,805 outstanding absentee ballots still not received,” CBS Minnesota reported, adding, &#8220;The ruling also leaves the door open for the absentee ballots postmarked on or before Election Day but not received until the days after to be set aside in case a future ruling invalidates those ballots.&#8221;
As the <a href="https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/15909630/2020/10/8th-Circuit-Court-of-Appeals-MN-absentee-ballot.pdf">court noted</a>:
<blockquote>Minnesota law dictates that election officials only count ballots received by election day. The Minnesota Alliance for Retired Americans Education Fund and some of its members (the “Alliance”) sued Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon in Minnesota state court, alleging the statutory deadline was unconstitutional. The Secretary and the Alliance entered into a consent decree purporting to change these rules, by essentially making the statutorily-mandated absentee ballot receipt deadline inoperative. A Minnesota state court confirmed that decree. As a result of this agreement, the Secretary has directed election officials to count absentee ballots received up to a week after election day, notwithstanding Minnesota law.
James Carson and Eric Lucero, both Minnesota registered voters and also certified nominees of the Republican Party to be presidential electors, sued the Secretary, alleging that the consent decree and the state court’s order confirming it violate the United States Constitution. Carson and Lucero sought an injunction, which the district court denied after concluding they lacked standing to bring the claims.
On appeal, we conclude that Carson and Lucero have standing and that the extension of the deadline likely violates Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution because the Secretary extended the deadline for receipt of ballots without legislative authorization. We therefore reverse the district court’s denial of a preliminary injunction, and remand to the district court to enter an injunction requiring the Secretary and those under his direction to identify, segregate, and otherwise maintain and preserve all absentee ballots received after the deadlines set forth in Minn. Stat. § 203B.08, subd. 3.</blockquote>
“While injunctive relief preserving the ability to effectuate Minnesota election law, as written by the Legislature, has some potential for administrative disruption and voter confusion, this die was cast long ago,” the court stated. “Voter confusion was inevitable once the Secretary issued guidance to voters that was directly in contradiction to Minnesota election law. An orderly process was hopelessly compromised when he usurped the authority of the Legislature under the Electors Clause of the Constitution. During the entire pendency of this litigation, Minnesota voters have been left with two sets of contradicting instructions: one from the Secretary and another that has long been, and remains, codified in the election laws of Minnesota. In the end, ‘it is always in the public interest to protect constitutional rights.’”
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed North Carolina to count mail-in ballots up to nine days after the election as long as the ballots are postmarked by election day.
The ruling is a win for Democrats in a key state ahead of the election and a loss for North Carolina Republican lawmakers and the Trump campaign, both of which filed challenges to a lower court ruling that set the nine-day deadline, according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/28/politics/north-carolina-supreme-court-nine-days/index.html?utm_term=1603967379315707426f3a66d&amp;utm_source=cnn_Five+Things+for+Thursday%2C+October+29%2C+2020&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=1603967379317&amp;bt_ee=28gTx5t0amL2ZnRSgeEyXUDT8QDziizEgJXtUON42S9SscIyU0cyAJZp2dCMVY1v&amp;bt_ts=1603967379317">CNN</a>.
The state’s Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein issued a <a href="https://ncdoj.gov/attorney-general-josh-stein-releases-statement-on-u-s-supreme-court-decision/">statement</a> cheering the court’s ruling: “North Carolina voters had a huge win tonight at the U.S. Supreme Court. The Court upheld the State Board of Elections’ effort to ensure that every eligible vote counts, even during a pandemic. Voters must have their mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day, but now we all have certainty that every eligible vote will be counted. Let’s vote!”
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who was sworn into office on Monday, did not take part in the decision because she did not have enough time to review the case materials, the court said. Notably, Barrett did not recuse herself from the decision so she can still make a ruling on the case at some point in the future.
In both challenges to the lower court ruling &#8212; that ballots can be counted up to nine days past election day &#8212; Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Clarence Thomas dissented from the previous decision. At least five votes are needed for the Supreme Court to overturn it.
A similar case appeared before the Supreme Court last week, this time over a state supreme court ruling from Pennsylvania that also favored Democrats. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has allowed mail-in ballots to be counted up to three days after election day, another significant ruling in a swing state that threatens to hamper a speedy resolution to the presidential election.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/roberts-sides-with-liberals-scotus-allows-pa-to-accept-ballots-three-days-late">Supreme Court</a> split 4-4 on the Pennsylvania decision, leaving in place the lower court ruling. Barrett’s is now the missing vote, which she may supply later.
The Pennsylvania GOP had filed a request to the Supreme Court to stay the state court’s decision, arguing: “In a year where there is a very real possibility that the final presidential election result hinges on Pennsylvania, the new rules imposed by the decision of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (a body elected in partisan elections) could destroy the American public’s confidence in the electoral system as a whole.”
The request continued:
<blockquote>This Court should adhere to the rule it set forth earlier this year. Like the district court in Republican National Committee, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has created a strong likelihood that ballots cast or mailed “after the scheduled election day” will count in the upcoming general election in which millions of Pennsylvanians will cast their votes for President and U.S. Representative.
This is not a mere hypothetical concern. In the April 2020 Wisconsin primary, “many ballots arrived with no postmarks, two postmarks or unclear postmarks.” And a ballot mailed as late as November 5, 2020 in Pennsylvania has “more than [a] 98%” chance of being delivered by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s judicial received-by deadline of November 6, 2020. Thus, just as in Republican National Committee, this Court should stay that order insofar as it “fundamentally alters the nature of the election” by mandating a non-postmarked ballots presumption that allows counting of ballots cast or mailed after Election Day.</blockquote>
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Joe Biden&#8217;s presidential campaign is well ahead in fundraising but it seems some of that money is going to &#8220;pre-fund&#8221; legal costs that could be associated with a protracted battle over the results of November&#8217;s presidential election.
Biden, The <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-biden-raising-cash-to-fight-donald-trumpafter-the-campaign">Daily Beast notes</a>, has around $435 million on hand &#8212; a record amount for a presidential campaign &#8212; and is raising around $150 per minute, making the 2020 election one of the costliest in history. At the rate Biden has been bringing in money, the outlet explains, he could stop fundraising altogether until November 3rd and still likely come out ahead in the money race.
But now, fundraisers affiliated with the campaign tell The Daily Beast, the campaign has moved from soliciting checks to fund the campaign&#8217;s coffers and pad out its advertising budget to asking donors to &#8220;pre-fund&#8221; a legal strategy that includes teams ready to handle challenges arising from November&#8217;s election results, regardless of whether Biden or President Donald Trump wins.
&#8220;[The Biden campaign] is still leaning hard on its donor network, explicitly pointing ahead to its potential need to fund legal battles in multiple states following the election,&#8221; the outlet noted Wednesday. &#8220;The expectations on that network are high; according to a Biden Victory Fund calendar of events obtained by The Daily Beast, the campaign has 37 events planned from Oct. 17 through Oct. 24—nearly five a day, on average.&#8221;
&#8220;The rationale? In part, lingering anxieties that President Donald Trump will make good on his public statements implying that he may refuse to accept election results if he loses, which could trigger court fights in multiple states and appellate courts—the kind of legal battle that could get very expensive very quickly,&#8221; sources told The Daily Beast.
Campaigns typically set up lawyer teams for post-election recounts and challenges, but Biden&#8217;s campaign seems to be expanding on the traditional framework.
Teams have formed to help Biden&#8217;s team handle “voter education to raise awareness of options for in-person and mail voting, aggressive response[s] to vote suppression activities, and robust programs for identifying and countering foreign interference and misinformation from foreign or domestic sources,” and there&#8217;s even a &#8220;special&#8221; team for high-level litigation and Constitutional appellate litigation in case the campaigns end up in front of the Supreme Court like they did in 2000.
Despite Trump&#8217;s statements, it&#8217;s unlikely that his election opponent would be called upon to force Trump from office if he loses. There are plans in place to handle a White House resident unwilling to move on &#8212; plans that have been in place for decades. What Biden&#8217;s team seems to be worried about is extended litigation over mail-in votes, particularly in states like Michigan, where state authorities and political parties are battling it out over whether ballots received after November 3rd can still be counted.
Just this week, a 4-4 tie in the Supreme Court resulted in Pennsylvania &#8212; also a battleground state &#8212; being allowed to extend counting ballots for at least three days after the November 3rd deadline, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/us/supreme-court-pennsylvania-voting.html">according to The New York Times</a>. Each individual ballot, received after Election Day in Pennsylvania, will be at least considered, even if the ballot itself lacks a postmark.
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A Kentucky postal worker who allegedly tossed dozens of absentee ballots may face federal charges after being terminated from his position.
A United States Postal Service worker allegedly threw away over 100 absentee ballots meant for the Jeffersontown area of Jefferson County. Federal agents from the Postal Service Office of Inspector General found the ballots on Thursday morning after receiving a tip, according to the <a href="https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/10/16/usps-employee-fired-tossing-louisville-kentucky-ballots/3677655001/">Courier-Journal</a>.
“The case has been accepted for federal prosecution by the U.S. Attorney’s Office,” Special Agent Scott Balfour wrote in a statement Friday. “They will determine what charges are appropriate after a review of all the facts in the case.”
“Incidents of this nature are exceedingly rare,” Balfour said. The “vast majority of the Postal Service’s 630,000 employees are hard-working, trustworthy individuals who work around the clock to deliver the nation’s mail.”
The worker involved “is no longer employed by the USPS,” Balfour confirmed, according to <a href="https://www.wkyt.com/2020/10/17/usps-worker-responsible-for-discarded-absentee-ballots-no-longer-employed-could-face-federal-charges/">WKYT</a>. “I cannot provide any further details surrounding their employment due to federal privacy concerns.”
A spokesman for the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Kentucky would not say whether or not the case would be taken up for prosecution. “We can’t confirm or deny an investigation,” spokesman Nick Storm said.
The recovered ballots were sent out by the Jefferson County Clerk&#8217;s Office on Oct. 3. Some of the Jefferson County residents who requested the ballots had called the office to report that they never received them.
The episode comes as pundits and lawmakers debate the merits of expanded mail-in voting amid the pandemic. Generally, Democratic lawmakers have pushed to expand absentee and mail-in voting, even as far as universal mail-in voting where an unsolicited ballot is sent to every American. Republicans have pushed back against mail-in voting, opting instead to keep the current absentee voting standards, or reduce standards for qualifying for absentee ballots.
The Trump administration has argued strongly against mail-in voting. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ag-barr-on-mail-in-voting-people-pushing-it-are-grossly-irresponsible-media-used-to-oppose-it">Attorney General Bill Barr</a> has been one of the most vocal critics of Democratic proposals to introduce expanded or universal mail-in voting.
“I’m very worried about it. You know, as I said at the beginning, the two ways we have resolving disputes in our society and keeping the peace are discussion and voting,” Barr said during an interview in August. “And right now, we’re a very divided country politically. Our elections have been very close. They can turn on one state. They turn on just a few districts.”
“And people have to have confidence in the outcome or we’re going to have real problems in this country,” Barr added. “And I think the people who want to experiment with different ways of voting right now, which are predictably—you know, can predictably create problems of integrity, are playing with fire and are grossly irresponsible.”
Barr defended absentee voting where people must provide some form of identification to request a ballot.
“There’s no problem with that, especially for states that have been doing that for awhile,” Barr said.
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The Department of Justice announced on Wednesday that a U.S. Postal Service (USPS) mail carrier in New Jersey has been arrested for allegedly dumping mail, including 99 general election ballots.
&#8220;Nicholas Beauchene, 26, of Kearny, New Jersey, is charged by complaint with one count of delay, secretion, or detention of mail and one count of obstruction of mail,&#8221; the DOJ <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/postal-employee-arrested-dumping-mail-including-election-ballots-sent-west-orange">said</a> in a statement. &#8220;Approximately 1,875 pieces of mail – including 627 pieces of first class, 873 pieces of standard class, two pieces of certified mail, 99 general election ballots destined for residents in West Orange, and 276 campaign flyers from local candidates for West Orange Town Council and Board of Education – were recovered from dumpsters in North Arlington and West Orange on Oct. 2, 2020, and Oct. 5, 2020.&#8221;
The statement noted that the mail had been scheduled to be delivered on September 28, October 1, and October 2 to Orange and West Orange residents.
&#8220;The recovered mail was placed back into the mail stream for delivery to its intended recipients. Copies of the recovered mail were made and retained as evidence,&#8221; the statement added. &#8220;U.S. Attorney Carpenito credited special agents of the USPS-Office of Inspector General, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Matthew Modafferi, Northeast Area Field Office, with the investigation leading to today’s arrest.&#8221;
Beauchene is scheduled to appear in federal court this afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Cathy L. Waldor. The statement noted that, if convicted, Beauchene could face up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine for the delay of mail charge and six months and a $5,000 fine for the obstruction of mail charges.
In May, the DOJ charged a mail carrier with attempted election fraud in Pendleton County, West Virginia, for allegedly altering eight primary ballot request forms.
The DOJ <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndwv/pr/pendleton-county-mail-carrier-charged-attempted-election-fraud">said</a> in a statement:
<blockquote>Thomas Cooper, a mail carrier in Pendleton County, was charged today in a criminal complaint with attempted election fraud, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
Cooper, age 47, of Dry Fork, West Virginia, is charged with “Attempt to Defraud the Residents of West Virginia of a Fair Election.” According to the affidavit filed with the complaint, Cooper held a U.S. Postal Service contract to deliver mail in Pendleton County. In April 2020, the Clerk of Pendleton County received “2020 Primary Election COVID-19 Mail-In Absentee Request&#8221; forms from eight voters on which the voter&#8217;s party-ballot request appeared to have been altered.
The clerk reported the finding to the West Virginia Secretary of State’s office, which began an investigation. The investigation found five ballot requests that had been altered from “Democrat” to “Republican.” On three other requests, the party wasn’t changed, but the request had been altered.
Cooper was responsible for the mail delivery of the three towns from which the tampered requests were mailed: Onego, Riverton, and Franklin, West Virginia. According to the affidavit, Cooper admitted to altering some of the requests, saying it was a joke.</blockquote>
Two months later, in July, Cooper <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/us/politics/west-Virginia-election-fraud.html">pleaded</a> guilty to attempted election fraud and injury to the mail.
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Two affidavits filed in a lawsuit alleged that top Texas Democrat officials have launched an illegal mail-ballot harvesting scheme. In one affidavit, Charles Marler, a former investigative specialist with the FBI, alleges that Precinct 1 Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis and District 13 Texas State Senator Borris Miles are supervising the illegal effort, supported by Houston businessman Gerald Womack and political consultant Dallas Jones. Miles and Ellis adamantly deny the allegations, dismissing the claims as &#8220;Republican opposition work&#8221; and &#8220;dirty voter suppression tricks.&#8221;
At the beginning of September, the Texas Supreme Court <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2020/09/02/Harris-County-absentee-ballott/">issued</a> a temporary stay against the Harris County Democrats&#8217; plan to send mail-in ballots to all 2.37 million voters in the country regardless of eligibility. The order was issued in response to a <a href="https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/houston/article/harris-county-gop-mail-ballot-application-texas-15527874.php">lawsuit</a> filed by the Harris County Republican Party, Dr. Steve Hotze, Wendell Champion, Sharon Hemphill, and Al Hartman against County Clerk Chris Hollins, a Democrat, over the universal mail-in ballot plan. The lawsuit now includes allegations of a massive ballot harvesting scheme, which Democrats deny.
The political consultant named in one of the affidavits, Dallas Jones, &#8220;has notably been hired by Joe Biden’s presidential campaign as the Texas political director,” <a href="https://texasscorecard.com/local/affidavits-allege-democrat-officials-planning-colossal-illegal-ballot-harvesting-scheme/">Texas Scorecard</a> notes.
Marler stated in one affidavit, “Witnesses have shown me and described to me how the ballot harvesters take absentee ballots from the elderly in nursing homes, from the homeless, and from unsuspecting residences’ mailboxes. The ballot harvesters then complete the ballots for their preferred candidate and forge the signature of the ‘voter.’ Two witnesses stated to me that there are two individuals employed at the Harris County Clerk’s Office who are aware of the illegal ballots and help facilitate and mask the processing of the ballots into the legal stream of ballots.”
&#8220;I have been made aware of a law enforcement investigation in the Spring of 2020 regarding illegal ballot harvesting,&#8221; Marler continued. &#8220;Several interviews of individuals were conducted. After the interviews became public, former Harris County Clerk Diane Trautman <a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2020/05/09/369169/harris-county-clerk-diane-trautman-resigns/">resigned</a>, alleging health concerns due to COVID-19. However, witnesses have told me that Ms. Trautman was arguing with Commission[er] Rodney Ellis about the legality of mass purchasing and mailing of mail-in ballots and that Trautman was concerned she would be included in the eventual arrest pertaining to illegal ballot harvesting. Instead of coming forward and exposing the scheme, Ms. Trautman abruptly resigned. Witnesses have stated that Commissioner Ellis was not deterred and continued to move forward with the plan to mass mail ballots and expand the illegal ballot harvesting scam. Another witness stated to me that an employee of Commission[er] Ellis, Tyler James, has bragged that he could guarantee that the illegal ballot harvesting operation, with the help of mass mail-in ballots, could harvest 700,000 illegal ballots.&#8221;
Another affidavit was submitted by Mark Aguirre, a retired captain with the Houston Police Department, who mentioned Ellis, Miles, Womack, and Jones. Aguirre alleged: &#8220;I have in my possession video-taped interviews of witnesses attesting to the aforementioned people having groups of people completing thousands of absentee and mail-in ballots, including completing ballots for deceased individuals; illegally going into nursing homes, with the complicity of the nursing home staff, and filling out and forging the signatures of nursing home residents; signing up homeless individuals to vote using the ballot harvester’s address then completing the ballot and forging the homeless individual’s signature. This entire operation is being run by the elite politicians of the Democrat Party in Houston/Harris County.&#8221;
Both State Sen. Miles and Commissioner Ellis have responded to the allegations. Miles &#8220;called the allegations false and ludicrous, noting he has never met either of the two men who claim to have inside knowledge of the alleged plot,&#8221; <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2020/09/28/houston-republicans-lawsuit-voting/">The Texas Tribune</a> reported Monday. &#8220;Miles said he has always encouraged mail-in voting, especially for voters who are senior citizens, but has never and would never engage in ballot harvesting or any efforts to collect absentee ballots.&#8221;
The claim against him is simply “Republican opposition work,&#8221; said Miles. &#8220;I don’t do that, I don’t have a team that does that, and I’ve never had somebody else’s mail ballot in my hands,&#8221; he said.
Ellis likewise strongly denied the allegations. &#8220;I’m not surprised that Trump, Hotze and others are using all the dirty voter suppression tricks they can to undermine our elections and democratic process,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I’m proud our County Clerk is working to ensure Harris County voters have the opportunity to vote safely and securely during this global pandemic, despite these partisan attacks.&#8221;
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Some voters in New York City reportedly received mail-in ballots for the upcoming 2020 presidential election that were marked for military use despite the fact that they had not served in the military.
&#8220;The misprint makes it appear that the voters received a &#8216;Official Military Absentee Ballot&#8217; instead of a &#8216;Military/Absentee Ballot,&#8217; leaving several borough residents who received the documents — including two Post journalists — worried that their votes might not be properly tallied,&#8221; the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/09/28/nyc-voters-wrongly-getting-mail-in-ballots-marked-for-military-use/">reported</a>. &#8220;Experts from both sides of the political aisle said the typo ultimately wouldn’t matter because the city Board of Elections uses the same ballots for both military voters and traditional absentee voters who live in the same district.&#8221;
City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, a Democrat, expressed anger over the alleged problems that were happening with the mail-in voting.
“This apparent typo just has everyone confused and believing these are invalid ballots,” he said. “It’s absolutely outrageous that when everyone is watching them, they still screw up the most basic thing, which is printing the ballot correctly. Did no one proof this?”
NYC Votes <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCVotes/status/1310728839421669378">highlighted</a> an <a href="https://gothamist.com/news/brooklyn-voters-receive-absentee-ballot-envelopes-wrong-voter-names-and-addresses">article</a> from Gothamist that stated:
<blockquote>Multiple voters in Brooklyn told Gothamist / WNYC that they have received a mislabeled “official absentee ballot envelope.” Normally, the voter inserts their completed ballot into the envelope and signs the outside. But in these cases, their ballot envelopes bear the wrong name and address. If a person signs their own name to this faulty ballot envelope, the ballot would be voided.</blockquote>
NYC Votes also posted pictures of ballots on their Twitter account, writing: &#8220;Note: absentee ballots say &#8216;Official Absentee Military Ballot&#8217; in the top corner. This is the correct ballot, even if you are not serving in the military. Typically, there is a slash between the words &#8216;Absentee / Military&#8217; like on the primary ballots from this June. The slash was not included this time. Though confusing, these ballots are still valid.&#8221;
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New York City Board of Elections Executive Director Michael Ryan said that the problem was &#8220;an error made by the vendor, Phoenix Graphics, who has been contracted to print and mail the ballots for voters in Brooklyn and Queens,&#8221; Gothamist added.
“We will ensure on behalf of the voters in Brooklyn that the proper ballots and ballot envelopes are in the hands of the voters in advance of Election Day so they can vote,” Ryan said. “This problem will get corrected.”
A spokesperson for the Board of Elections <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/brooklyn-absentee-voters-report-receiving-return-envelopes-addressed-to-other-voters/2640551/">told</a> NBC New York that they were in the process of &#8220;determining how many voters have been affected,&#8221; adding, &#8220;we can assure that the vendor will address this problem in future mailings, and make sure people who received erroneous envelopes receive new ones.&#8221;
The New York City Board of Elections wrote on Twitter: “If you received an absentee ballot with a wrong oath envelope due to an outside vendor error: -DM us -Email us Apply4Absentee@boe.nyc &#8211; Or call 1-866-VOTE-NYC.”
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NYC Board Of Elections Responds After New Yorkers Receive Ballots With Wrong Name, Voter Addresses

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Some voters in New York City reportedly received mail-in ballots for the upcoming 2020 presidential election that were marked for military use despite the

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The U.S. Postal Service has reportedly launched an investigation after mail — including absentee ballots — were discovered this week along a road in the swing state of Wisconsin.
&#8220;According to the Outagamie County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, three trays of mail were discovered shortly before 8 a.m. Monday in a ditch along State 96 at Outagamie county CB in Greenville,&#8221; the Post-Crescent <a href="https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/2020/09/24/outagamie-county-absentee-ballots-found-along-road-fox-valley-greenville/3517714001/">reported</a>. &#8220;The mail was on its way to the post office and the sheriff&#8217;s office turned it over to the postal inspector. The mail was mixed and did contain &#8216;several&#8217; absentee ballots.&#8221;
The report said that the U.S. Postal Service would not disclose the specific location where the absentee ballots were discovered or how many were found.
“We are aware of some mail including absentee ballots recovered in Greenville, Outagamie County earlier this week,” a spokesperson said. “The U.S. Postal Service is investigating this matter, and we are unable to comment further at this time.”
The news comes after federal law enforcement officials <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-military-ballots-discarded-in-troubling-discovery-all-opened-ballots-were-cast-for-trump">discovered</a> that some military ballots had been discarded in the swing state of Pennsylvania and that out of all the discarded ballots that had been opened, they all had voted for President Donald Trump.
“The FBI has recovered a number of documents relating to military ballots that had been improperly opened by your elections staff, and had the ballots removed and discarded, or removed and placed separately from the envelope containing confidential voter information and attestation,” U.S. Attorney David J. Freed said in a letter to Shelby Watchilla, Director of Elections of Luzerne County Bureau of Elections.
“Specifically, a total of nine (9) military ballots were discovered to have been discarded,” the letter continued. “Seven (7) of those ballots when discovered by investigators were outside of any envelope. Those ballots were all cast for presidential candidate Donald Trump. One (1) of those seven (7) ballots was able to be identified to an envelope that was recovered, and thereby potentially tied to a specific voter. Two (2) military ballots that had been discarded were previously recovered by elections staff, reinserted into what appeared to be their appropriate envelopes, and then resealed. Therefore, the votes cast on those two (2) ballots are unknown. Thus, is appears that three (3) of the nine (9) recovered ballots can be potentially attributed to specific voters. Six (6) of the ballots were simply removed and discarded, and cannot be attributed to a specific voter at this time.”
Also on Thursday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-attorney-general-announces-arrests-in-fraudulent-mail-in-ballot-scheme-in-democrat-primary">announced</a> more than 100 felony charges in an illegal ballot harvesting scheme in a Democrat Primary.
“It is an unfortunate reality that elections can be stolen outright by mail ballot fraud. Election fraud, particularly an organized mail ballot fraud scheme orchestrated by political operatives, is an affront to democracy and results in voter disenfranchisement and corruption at the highest level,” Attorney General Paxton said in a statement. “Mail ballots are vulnerable to diversion, coercion, and influence by organized vote harvesting schemes. This case demonstrates my commitment to ensuring Texas has the most secure elections in the country, and I thank the Gregg County Sheriff and District Attorney for their continued partnership. Those who try to manipulate the outcome of elections in Texas must be held accountable.”
This story has been updated to include additional information.
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Investigation Launched After Absentee Ballots Found Along Road In Swing State, Report Says

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Thursday that law enforcement officials had arrested four individuals for their alleged involvement in an illegal ballot harvesting scheme in the state&#8217;s 2018 Democrat primary election. One of the people who was arrested was the Democrat who won the primary race.
&#8220;The four individuals—Charlie Burns, Dewayne Ward, Marlena Jackson and Jackson&#8217;s husband Shannon Brown, a Democrat who was serving as Gregg County&#8217;s Precinct 4 commissioner—collectively stand accused of 134 different felony charges of election fraud and ballot tampering,&#8221; Newsweek <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/texas-official-arrested-felony-election-fraud-charges-could-face-99-year-sentence-1534183">reported</a>. &#8220;If found guilty, each individual could face six months in jail to 99 years in prison.&#8221;
The charges filed against the individuals included engaging in organized election fraud, illegal voting, fraudulent use of an application for a mail-in ballot, unlawful possession of a mail-in ballot, tampering with a governmental record, and election fraud.
&#8220;It is an unfortunate reality that elections can be stolen outright by mail ballot fraud. Election fraud, particularly an organized mail ballot fraud scheme orchestrated by political operatives, is an affront to democracy and results in voter disenfranchisement and corruption at the highest level,” Attorney General Paxton said in a statement. “Mail ballots are vulnerable to diversion, coercion, and influence by organized vote harvesting schemes. This case demonstrates my commitment to ensuring Texas has the most secure elections in the country, and I thank the Gregg County Sheriff and District Attorney for their continued partnership. Those who try to manipulate the outcome of elections in Texas must be held accountable.”
The statement from the Texas Attorney General&#8217;s office said that a grand jury had returned indictments of 23 felony counts against Democrat Commissioner Brown, 97 felony counts against Jackson, eight felony counts against Burns, and six felony counts against Ward.
The statement said that in order to win, the group allegedly &#8220;targeted young, able-bodied voters to cast ballots by mail by fraudulently claiming the voters were &#8216;disabled,&#8217; in most cases without the voters’ knowledge or consent.&#8221;
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The news comes after federal law enforcement officials <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-military-ballots-discarded-in-troubling-discovery-all-opened-ballots-were-cast-for-trump">announced</a> on Thursday that a handful of military ballots had been discarded in the swing state of Pennsylvania and that out of all the discarded ballots that were opened when they were discovered, all of them had voted for President Donald Trump.
“The FBI has recovered a number of documents relating to military ballots that had been improperly opened by your elections staff, and had the ballots removed and discarded, or removed and placed separately from the envelope containing confidential voter information and attestation,” U.S. Attorney David J. Freed said in a letter to Shelby Watchilla, Director of Elections of Luzerne County Bureau of Elections.
“Specifically, a total of nine (9) military ballots were discovered to have been discarded,” the letter continued. “Seven (7) of those ballots when discovered by investigators were outside of any envelope. Those ballots were all cast for presidential candidate Donald Trump. One (1) of those seven (7) ballots was able to be identified to an envelope that was recovered, and thereby potentially tied to a specific voter. Two (2) military ballots that had been discarded were previously recovered by elections staff, reinserted into what appeared to be their appropriate envelopes, and then resealed. Therefore, the votes cast on those two (2) ballots are unknown. Thus, is appears that three (3) of the nine (9) recovered ballots can be potentially attributed to specific voters. Six (6) of the ballots were simply removed and discarded, and cannot be attributed to a specific voter at this time.”
This story has been updated to include additional information.
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Texas Attorney General Announces Arrests In Fraudulent Mail-In Ballot Scheme In Democrat Primary

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Democratic politicians and groups are beginning to push voters to vote in person or hand deliver their absentee ballots as concerns grow over what a flood of mail-in ballots may mean for the election.
Democrats are more likely to vote absentee or mail-in historically than Republicans, and that difference has been amplified this year with the outbreak of the coronavirus as well as a Democratic legal push to loosen voting laws in a number of states, including many swing states.
Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, who is running for Senate against GOP Sen. Cory Gardner, as well as Democratic candidate for Senate in Idaho Paulette Jordan, are both encouraging voters to turn in their mail-in ballots in person. A number of Democratic-aligned organizations have shifted their messaging to include or primarily push in-person voting, according to <a href="https://www.axios.com/democrats-mail-voting-pivot-838522b7-8dac-42b4-a566-1ba93818654d.html">Axios</a>.
Black PAC and The Collective PAC have both shifted voter outreach strategies to encourage more in-person voting rather than mailing of ballots.
“We’re shifting away from making plans to vote by mail to voting early in person,” The Collective PAC founder Quentin James told Axios.
Voting by mail has become increasingly risky this year due to a high demand for absentee and mail-in ballots. During presidential primaries alone this year, hundreds of thousands of ballots cast by mail were lost, effectively disenfranchising over half a million voters.
As NPR reported on Aug. 22:
<blockquote>An extraordinarily high number of ballots — more than 550,000 — have been rejected in this year&#8217;s presidential primaries, according to a new analysis by NPR.
That&#8217;s far more than <a href="https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/eac_assets/1/6/2016_EAVS_Comprehensive_Report.pdf">the 318,728 ballots rejected</a> in the 2016 general election and has raised alarms about what might happen in November when tens of millions of more voters are expected to cast their ballots by mail, many for the first time.</blockquote>
A flood of mail-in ballots has caused primary election problems in states such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-1600-new-jersey-primary-ballots-found-in-misplaced-bin-2-months-later">New Jersey</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wisconsins-vote-by-mail-debacle-was-worse-than-you-think">Wisconsin</a>. In New Jersey, election officials found roughly 1,600 primary ballots stuffed in a bin and uncounted months after the July primary.
As The Daily Wire reported:
<blockquote>The votes were reportedly placed in a “mislabeled” bin in a “secure area” of the county election office, according to the <a href="https://www.njherald.com/news/20200914/16k-uncounted-july-ballots-discovered-in-sussex-county">New Jersey Herald</a>. Sussex County Board of Elections Administrator Marge McCabe maintained that the 1,666 extra votes did not change the outcome of the July 7 primary race. “The Board of Elections is confident that all ballots received have been processed and the security of all the ballots has remained in place,” she said.</blockquote>
In Wisconsin, problems hit almost every level of the mail-in voting process, from requests for ballots not being processed to voters’ ballots not getting to the proper election officials to be counted.
Democrats have put a heavy emphasis on mail-in voting and one Democratic data firm has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-data-firm-says-apparent-trump-election-landslide-could-turn-into-biden-win-days-later-with-mail-in-ballots">predicted</a> a “red mirage” outcome in the presidential election where President Trump appears to win on election night, only to slowly lose ground and eventually be defeated by Democratic candidate Joe Biden as mailed ballots are processed.
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On Thursday, speaking at a White House press briefing, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said she could confirm that ballots for President Trump were found “cast aside” in Pennsylvania.
A reporter prompted McEnany by asking, “So, Kayleigh, yesterday when the president said, ‘Get rid of the ballots, there won’t be a transfer, frankly, there’ll be a continuation,’ which particular ballots is he talking about wanting to get rid of and why does he think that will help him get elected?”
McEnany responded, “The president wants to get rid of mass mail-out voting, and that’s not because of — he’s said clearly that that could go either way; it could damage either candidate’s chances, because it’s a system that’s subject to fraud. In fact, in the last twenty-four hours, police in Greenville, Wisconsin found mail in a ditch and it included absentee ballots. And also, I can confirm for you that Trump ballots, ballots for the president were found in Pennsylvania and I believe you should be getting more information on that shortly. Here in the last 24 hours they were found cast aside.”
The reporter pressed, “So why in the past hour did the president tweet out, ‘Vote-by mail in my home state of Florida begin going out today! Make sure to request yours, fill it out &amp; send it in.’”
“The president has always made the distinction that absentee ballots, where you go through a process, where you request a ballot and you mail that in, that is a system that works,” McEnany explained. “But a system where you mass mail out to voter rolls, which are not kept and maintained, where in Los Angeles County, for instance, you have 120% of the county enrolled; that system is untenable. It doesn’t work; it leads to what we saw in Nevada, where there were ballots languishing in trash cans and pinned to apartment boards.”
The reporter, still unsatisfied, queried, “Finally, today FBI Director Wray testified on the Hill that he has ‘not seen historically any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election whether it’s by mail of otherwise.’ So if the president’s own FBI Director says this isn’t a problem, why does the president keep saying it is?”
“Well, as Attorney General Barr has said, we’ve never had an election where we’ve done mass mail-out voting like this before,” McEnany answered. Then she quoted one famous Democrat to buttress her assertions:
<blockquote>I would point you to a bipartisan study done by none other than Jimmy Carter, who said that these mail-in votes remain the largest source of potential fraud, and he even cited an example of a 1997 Miami mayor election that resulted in 36 arrests for absentee ballot fraud. That election had to be rerun and the results were reversed. That is an example from 1997 but there are many others, like Paterson, New Jersey, where four men were charged with voting fraud recently; four more men were charged in California and there’s a ton of examples. I could get you an encyclopedia of fraudulent examples we’ve had.</blockquote>
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On Thursday, the Department of Justice <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdpa/pr/revised-statement-us-attorney-freed-inquiry-reports-potential-issues-mail-ballots">released a statement</a> regarding Pennsylvania ballots, which reads in part:
<blockquote>Since Monday, FBI personnel working together with the Pennsylvania State Police have conducted numerous interviews and recovered and reviewed certain physical evidence. Election officials in Luzerne County have been cooperative. At this point we can confirm that a small number of military ballots were discarded. Investigators have recovered nine ballots at this time. Some of those ballots can be attributed to specific voters and some cannot. Of the nine ballots that were discarded and then recovered, 7 were cast for presidential candidate Donald Trump. Two of the discarded ballots had been resealed inside their appropriate envelopes by Luzerne elections staff prior to recovery by the FBI and the contents of those 2 ballots are unknown.
Our inquiry remains ongoing and we expect later today to share our up to date findings with officials in Luzerne County. It is the vital duty of government to ensure that every properly cast vote is counted.</blockquote>
Editor’s note: This article has been updated to include the most recent statement from the Department of Justice regarding Pennsylvania ballots. The prior statement we quoted was changed, and the newly quoted portion above reflects those changes.
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WATCH: McEnany: I Can Confirm Ballots For Trump Were ‘Cast Aside’ In Pennsylvania

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On May 26, President Trump tweeted this prophecy about mail-in voting in California: “There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent.” The president predicted that the November election will be rigged and went on to describe how: “Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged &amp; even illegally printed out &amp; fraudulently signed.” 
This wasn’t the first time Trump issued such warnings. Since the beginning of the year, he’s done so at least 50 times, according to a tally by The Washington Post. He also questioned election integrity in 2018. And in 2016, Trump famously claimed the reason he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton was because of millions of fraudulent ballots. 
The issue of mail-in voting is particularly timely now as several states have adopted or proposed measures to expand the practice in order to facilitate social distancing in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Thirty-four states plus the District of Columbia are allowing voters to request absentee ballots in the weeks leading up to Election Day. Eleven states made it easier to do so in primary elections this spring, according to the Brookings Institution. 
In 2016, nearly one-quarter of U.S. votes were cast by mail according to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. This year, that figure will likely be significantly higher.
In the latest showdown, the president has announced his opposition to coronavirus-related emergency funding for the U.S. Postal Service and state election operations on the grounds that such funding will facilitate expansion of mail-in voting. 
So is the president right? Is mail-in voting really a threat to free and fair elections? The answer is more complicated than you might think. 
Voter Fraud Is Real
First, it must be said that voter fraud is not a myth. 
In 2017, the conservative think tank Government Accountability Institute collected voter data from 21 states and commercial data services, and used it to cross-check voter histories. That study found 7,271 cases of votes in more than one state using matching names, birthdates, and at least one other identifier in the 2016 election. Of those, 3,885 involved mail-in ballots.
In 2018, Republican operatives in North Carolina illegally collected absentee ballots and they were caught and convicted. The election results were dismissed and a new election was held. 
A 2012 report by the Pew Research Center found that one in eight voter registrations in the country was inaccurate or invalid, including 1.8 million active voter registrations of deceased people. These inefficiencies don’t prove fraud, but they certainly describe a system that is vulnerable.  
More than 130 million Americans voted in the last presidential election. Whenever that many people do anything, some of them are bound to cheat. And for those with designs on cheating, mail-in voting seems to present the best opportunity. 
Hans von Spakovsky, a former member of the Federal Election Commission now manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, said mail-in ballots are “the ballots most vulnerable to being altered, stolen, or forged.” 
That stands to reason. If you’re looking for a way to vote twice, it would seem more attractive to do so by mail than to stand in front of an election official with a fake ID. 
Voter Fraud Is Rare
On the other hand, American elections are remarkably fair, perhaps more so than any nation on Earth. By some estimates, mail-in voter fraud happens in 0.000001 percent of cases. That’s one fraudulent ballot for every 1 million ballots cast, or about 130 per presidential election. If you and your spouse cheated in the last election, you’re probably the only household in your state who did so. 
The rarity of voter fraud is confirmed by myriad sources. 
The Heritage Foundation keeps a database of known voter fraud cases, dating back to 1982. As of August 18 of this year, that resource totaled 1,296 cases of fraud. In the same period, more than 1.8 billion ballots were cast. That’s a rate of 7 cases of fraud for every 10 million ballots. And that number includes things like bribing or intimidating voters that have nothing to do with mail-in voting. If you sort the Heritage Foundation data for fraudulent use of absentee ballots, the number of cases drops to 210. 
A Justice Department initiative to suss out voter fraud during the first three years of the George W. Bush administration resulted in just 26 people convicted or pleading guilty to fraudulent registration or voting, out of 197,056,035 ballots cast in the two federal elections held during that period, according to a study by Lorraine C. Minnite, an associate professor of public policy at Rutgers University-Camden. 
In June, Brookings studied states who had used expanded mail-in voting prior to 2018. It found 29 cases of mail-in voter fraud in those 5 states, out of 49,917,586 votes cast. That’s a fraud rate of 0.00000058.
Of course, not all cheaters get caught. The Heritage database, as von Spakovsky is quick to point out, only includes confirmed cases, mostly from the last 20 years. But even if the amount of fraud is 10 times what Brookings, Heritage Foundation, and the Justice Department uncovered, even including all 7,271 likely cases in the GAI report, that’s still a vanishingly small ratio. 
During a press briefing in April, President Trump described “thousands and thousands of people sitting in somebody’s living room signing ballots all over the place.” 
As far as the best policy minds in America can tell, that has never happened. It’s unlikely to happen. And if it does happen, the cheaters are likely to be caught, like the 1,296 others cataloged by the Heritage Foundation. The president’s assertion that there is zero chance expanded mail-in voting will not be “substantially fraudulent” is not supported by the facts. 
The White House declined to provide a comment for this article.
The fact is that Americans are, by and large, an honest bunch. They hold their right to vote as a sacred trust, and they don’t attempt to cheat the system very often. Just as importantly, the American Constitution created a remarkably robust system for ensuring free and fair republican representation. In contrast to the world’s weaker democracies (see what’s happening now in Venezuela and Belarus), the American system has demonstrated extraordinary strength through all manner of cultural and technological change for two centuries.
Voter Fraud Isn’t The Biggest Problem With Mail-In Voting
Trump’s concern about fraud seems misplaced, but that doesn’t mean mail-in voting offers no cause for concern. Quite the contrary, a mammoth, complicated logistical task that relies heavily on the bureaucratic and cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service is a recipe for disaster. As anyone who’s stood in line at a post office will attest, efficiency and problem-solving aren’t the organization’s strong suits. And in recent weeks, it’s only gotten worse.
In an effort to save the postal service from insolvency, new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy restructured the agency in a way that has slowed mail delivery. He cut worker hours, shortened post office operating hours, and removed collection boxes — although recently he walked back some of those decisions in response to pressure from lawmakers. 
DeJoy also started hedging his bets when it comes to mail-in voting. On July 30, attorneys for the postal service sent letters to 46 states and the District of Columbia warning that mail-in ballots could be delivered late. 
“To the extent that the mail is used to transmit ballots to and from voters, there is a significant risk that, at least in certain circumstances, ballots may be requested in a manner that is consistent with your election rules and returned promptly, and yet not be returned in time to be counted,” read the letter sent to Texas signed by attorney Thomas J. Marshall. 
The postal service can barely keep up with current demand. It’s requesting a $25 billion infusion just to stay afloat. With almost 180 million Americans eligible to vote by mail, it’s reasonable to doubt the agency’s ability to handle the load. 
So What Do Voters Think?
In April, an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that 67 percent of American voters supported allowing anyone to vote by mail this November, and 58 percent favored permanent reform of that kind even after the pandemic ends. The debate over mail-in voting won’t end November 3. 
With fraudulent ballots accounting for such a small percentage of votes, Americans can be reasonably confident the candidate installed in January will be the one chosen by the will of the people. But for confidence to remain high in coming elections, the country needs to pay attention to the growing concern over fraud. 
Ryan Sanders is a freelance journalist and author in Irving, Texas, and a frequent contributor to The Dallas Morning News. He writes about faith, culture, leadership, and civil discourse. Any views expressed in this article are his own. His first book, Unbelievable: Examining the Unlikely Beauty Of the Christian Story, is available on Amazon. You can follow him on Twitter at @theryansanders. 
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A Michigan judge has ruled that mail-in ballots postmarked by election day must be counted if they are received up to 14 days later.
Michigan Court of Claims Judge Cynthia Diane Stephens issued a preliminary injunction on Friday, arguing in a 21-page filing that recent events have rendered the statutory deadline for mail-in ballots unconstitutional. The state Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued a similar ruling on Thursday.
“In light of delays attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic, mail delivery has become significantly compromised, and the risk for disenfranchisement when a voter returns an absent voter ballot by mail is very real,” Stephens wrote, according to <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/09/18/michigan-clerks-must-accept-late-ballots-if-mailed-nov-2-judge-rules/3492245001/">The Detroit News</a>.
The decision is a victory for Democrats across the state and a blow to Republicans and the Trump campaign which argued for more restrictions on mail-in ballots. The ruling means campaign officials will continue to accept mail-in ballots postmarked by election day for two weeks following the election.
Stephens cited 6,400 ballots received after the state’s Aug. 4 primary that were discarded because they were late as evidence that the current framework of election security laws were burdensome and effectively disenfranchised voters amid the pandemic.
“Where the current state of affairs has riddled that option with uncertainty after uncertainty, the Court concludes that the 8:00 p.m. ballot receipt deadline unnecessarily curtails the self-executing right to vote by absent voter ballot and to return that ballot by mail,” Stephens wrote. “Applying the strict, 8:00 p.m. ballot receipt deadline on absent voter ballots imposes too great a restriction for the upcoming general election. Some flexibility must be built into the deadline in order to account for the significant inability of mail to arrive on what would typically be a reliable, predictable schedule.”
Attorneys for the GOP argued that the extended two-week window to accept ballots, and other similar proposals, will delay election results and increase the likelihood of voter fraud, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/09/18/trump-biden-live-updates/#link-RE6VBIQVNZDNTJCQFOCB5C44YU">The Washington Post</a>. Michigan has outlawed the practice known as ballot harvesting, campaign workers or activists gathering completed absentee ballots from voters.
“The documentary evidence in this case reveals that the incidences of voter fraud and absentee ballot fraud are minimal and that the fears of the same are largely exaggerated,” Stephens added.
The decision comes in a critical swing state that President Trump won by a slim margin of just 0.3% of the vote in 2016. A tight presidential race and a hold on Michigan’s election results could delay a winner being declared in the 2020 presidential election for up to two weeks.
On Thursday, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-court-sides-with-pennsylvania-democrats-mail-in-ballots-to-be-counted-3-days-after-election-day">Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court</a> issued a ruling in another victory for Democrats seeking to bolster the mail-in vote, which heavily favors Democratic candidates. The court ruled that ballots received within three days of election day should be counted. The court decision came after a difficult primary in which a flood of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pennsylvania-democrats-very-worried-about-mail-in-voting-causing-election-chaos">mail-in ballots</a> delayed election results in some races for weeks.
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Now It’s Michigan: Court Rules Mail-In Ballots Valid Up To Two Weeks After Election

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On Thursday, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court sided with the state&#8217;s Democrats, allowing a three-day extension past Election Day to count mail-in ballots.
The vital battleground state&#8217;s Supreme Court &#8220;granted the Democratic Party’s request to order an extension of Pennsylvania’s Election Day-deadline to count mailed-in ballots for three days after Election Day,&#8221; The Associated Press <a href="https://www.mcall.com/news/pennsylvania/mc-nws-pa-supreme-court-mail-in-ballot-20200917-qfcxnhvtsffbvkcagimmw4vaj4-story.html">reported</a> Thursday afternoon.
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The ruling also &#8220;authorized the use of satellite election offices and drop boxes — which Philadelphia and its heavily populated suburbs are planning to use help relieve the pressure from an avalanche of mailed-in ballots expected in the Nov. 3 presidential election,&#8221; the AP added.
As reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pennsylvania-democrats-very-worried-about-mail-in-voting-causing-election-chaos">The Daily Wire</a> earlier this month, elected officials within the state are battling over mail-in ballots, in light of the disastrous June primary process: &#8220;For its June primary, Pennsylvania implemented no-excuse absentee voting, meaning voters did not need an excuse to request an absentee ballot, for the first time ever. Mail-in ballots skyrocketed to over 1.4 million in the state, overloading the system and delaying the outcomes of several races by weeks.&#8221;
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In July, an experiment conducted by CBS News to test the integrity of mail-in voting ended in disaster; a stunning 3% of the votes were never counted.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-mail-in-voting-experiment-shows-potentially-serious-issue">The Daily Wire</a> reported on the experiment:
<blockquote>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>
On Thursday, The Daily Wire&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-if-the-election-doesnt-end-on-election-day-heres-what-happens-next">Joseph Curl</a> outlined what would happen if there is no declared winner on Election Day.
&#8220;In the Electoral College, the candidate who receives at least 270 of the 538 electoral votes will win the White House. If there’s still no winner, the Constitution kicks in. According to the 12th Amendment, the House of Representatives elects the president and the Senate elects the vice president. That has happened only once, in 1825, when John Quincy Adams won,&#8221; Curl explained.
However, he added, &#8220;it’s not a straight vote by all 435 lawmakers. Instead, each state casts a unified ballot — one state, one vote.&#8221;
&#8220;Twenty-seven states currently have a majority of Republican representatives, 22 have a majority of Democrats, and one state tied. If a president isn’t selected before Congress reconvenes on Jan. 6, 2021, Republicans in the House would eventually pick their candidate: Donald Trump. But all that could change depending on the outcome of House and Senate elections on Nov. 3,&#8221; Curl outlined.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-if-the-election-doesnt-end-on-election-day-heres-what-happens-next">What If The Election Doesn’t End On Election Day? Here’s What Happens Next.</a>
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Court Sides With Pennsylvania Democrats, Mail-In Ballots To Be Counted 3 Days After Election Day

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On Thursday, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court sided with the state&#039;s Democrats, allowing a three-day extension past Election Day to count mail-in ballots. The

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County officials in New Jersey tallied more than 1,600 uncounted ballots from the state&#8217;s July primary after finding them in a bin last Thursday.
The votes were reportedly placed in a &#8220;mislabeled&#8221; bin in a &#8220;secure area&#8221; of the county election office, according to the <a href="https://www.njherald.com/news/20200914/16k-uncounted-july-ballots-discovered-in-sussex-county" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">New Jersey Herald</a>. Sussex County Board of Elections Administrator Marge McCabe maintained that the 1,666 extra votes did not change the outcome of the July 7 primary race. &#8220;The Board of Elections is confident that all ballots received have been processed and the security of all the ballots has remained in place,&#8221; she said.
The Trump campaign has been <a href="https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2020/09/08/judge-to-lawyers-in-trump-mail-in-ballot-lawsuit-against-new-jersey-hurry-up-1315997" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tussling in court</a> with New Jersey since August over Democrat Gov. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/im-not-afraid-of-tyrants-new-jersey-gym-owner-arrested-after-disobeying-lockdown-order" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Phil Murphy&#8217;s</a>  <a href="https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2020/08/14/murphy-criticizes-trump-on-mail-in-voting-as-he-outlines-november-election-plan-1308859">executive order</a> requiring that every active registered voter be sent a mail-in ballot. As Politico reported, the campaign argued that Murphy&#8217;s executive order bypassed the state legislature’s authority and that it &#8220;violates the U.S. Constitution’s Electors and Elections Clauses as well as the 14th Amendment.&#8221;
&#8220;The Governor’s inconsistencies, coupled with the Order’s timing amid a nationwide push by the Democratic Party for the same measures, reveal that the Order is less about protecting the health of New Jerseyans and more about protecting the electoral prospects of the Governor’s political party,” the lawsuit said.
&#8220;As the president and his team try to delegitimize our election and impact the health and safety of millions of New Jerseyans, we will defend our rights vigorously, and we will not back down,&#8221; Murphy said in response. &#8220;So as they say, &#8216;Bring it on.'&#8221;
According to the <a href="https://www.nj.gov/state/elections/assets/pdf/election-results/vbm/vote-by-mail-ballot-chart-years-08-20.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">New Jersey Division of Elections</a>, almost 88% of the more than 1.4 million New Jerseyans who voted in the primary did so by mail, a sharp increase from 16.7% in 2019.
Of the 30,207 ballots cast in Sussex County, 92.9% were mail-in and 1% of them were rejected, the lowest number in the state, according to <a href="https://www.njspotlight.com/2020/09/nj-primary-election-2020-ballot-rejections-late-arrival-postal-problems/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Spotlight NJ</a>. Hudson County near New York City rejected the most at 7.2%. Almost 35,000 primary mail-in ballots were rejected in July for various reasons, the most common of which was that they were received too late. The next most common reason was listed as &#8220;Other (unspecified),&#8221; which was responsible for more than 23% of the rejected votes being tossed out.
As The Daily Wire reported, President Donald <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-mail-in-voting-experiment-shows-potentially-serious-issue" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Trump has repeatedly warned</a> about the potential dangers of mail-in voting, which he claims is rife with opportunity for foreign interference. &#8220;RIGGED 2020 ELECTION: MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AND OTHERS. IT WILL BE THE SCANDAL OF OUR TIMES!&#8221; he tweeted in June.
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Attorney General William Barr echoed Trump during a July hearing on Capitol Hill, saying &#8220;common sense&#8221; would dictate that foreign entities would seek to interfere in U.S. elections through counterfeit mail-in voting.
According to an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-mail-in-voting-experiment-shows-potentially-serious-issue" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">experiment</a> CBS did in Philadelphia in July, &#8220;3% of voters were effectively disenfranchised by mail by giving their ballots a week to arrive. In a close election, 3% could be pivotal.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-serious-situation-chief-justice-john-roberts-will-decide-2020-election-dick-morris-predicts" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">‘A Serious Situation’: Chief Justice John Roberts Will Decide 2020 Election, Dick Morris Predicts</a>
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More Than 1,600 New Jersey Primary Ballots Found In ‘Mislabeled’ Bin 2 Months Later

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As many as 1,000 Georgians voted twice in the state’s June 9 primary, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced on Tuesday, which is a felony that he vowed to prosecute.
“A double voter knows exactly what they’re doing, diluting the votes of each and every voter that follows the law,” Raffensperger said during a press conference at the state Capitol, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution <a href="https://www.ajc.com/politics/1000-people-double-voted-in-georgia-primary-and-may-face-charges/RR7ZPMO2SBBVLOSCUUAV7S3JEQ/">reported</a>. “Those that make the choice to game the system are breaking the law. And as secretary of state, I will not tolerate it.” Double voting is punishable by one to 10 years in prison and a fine up to $100,000.
Raffensperger said the voters sent in absentee ballots, but then also voted in person. In a post-primary examination, the double votes were detected. About 150,000 people &#8220;who requested absentee ballots showed up at polling places on election day, often because they never received their absentee ballots in the mail or decided to instead vote in person,&#8221; AJC reported. &#8220;Of those, 1,000 of those voters had returned their absentee ballots to county election offices, and poll workers also allowed them to vote in-person.&#8221;
The double votes did not alter the outcome of any races, Raffensperger said.
With Democrats pushing for nationwide vote-by-mail, where ballots are mailed to every registered voter, more reports are emerging about problems with the system. For instance, a man in California last month pleaded guilty to charges that he fraudulently cast his dead mother&#8217;s ballots in three different elections.
Caesar Peter Abutin was charged in July with one felony count of fraud and one count of fraudulent voting. He pleaded guilty to committing mail-in voting fraud three times from 2012 to 2014 using the ballots of his late mother, who died in July 2006, the Los Angeles District Attorney&#8217;s Office announced. The DA&#8217;s office said he signed the name of his mother when applying for vote-by-mail ballots.
President Donald Trump warned last month that if universal mail-in voting is allowed, the U.S. is &#8220;never going to have a fair&#8221; presidential election.
&#8220;I have to tell you, that if you go with this universal mail-in [&#8230;] tens of millions of ballots being sent to everybody and their dogs, dogs are getting them, OK? People that have been dead for 25 years are getting them, you have to see what&#8217;s happening. Then you&#8217;re never going to have a fair election,&#8221; Trump said in a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-dems-dont-know-how-to-unite-as-party-set-to-kick-off-2020-convention">Fox News</a> interview.
Trump also said he would support extending voting to include the weekend before Election Day and adding additional voting booths to ease crowding. “I would support all of that. That’s what you want to do,” Trump said. “I would be for opening more voting booths.&#8221;
And the president also said he&#8217;s okay with absentee voting. “I totally support that,” Trump responded. “That’s a great thing.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-mail-in-voting-experiment-shows-potentially-serious-issue">CBS Mail-In Voting Experiment Shows Potentially Serious Issue</a>
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1,000 People Double-Voted In Georgia Primary, Face 10 Years In Prison, $100,000 Fine

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As many as 1,000 Georgians voted twice in the state’s June 9 primary, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced on Tuesday, which is a felony that

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Pennsylvania Democrats are scrambling to bolster the state’s vote-by-mail procedures to avoid a repeat of June’s primary process in the general election.
Gov. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-slap-in-the-face-10-times-democrat-politicians-blew-off-their-own-coronavirus-restrictions">Tom Wolf</a> met with a group of other influential Democratic politicians and power brokers recently to discuss possible reforms to the election process, and how to best counter allegations of malfeasance, according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/03/pennsylvania-democrats-election-day-408147">Politico</a>. In the worst-case scenario, Pennsylvania, a battleground state, will not be able to verify the results of its election until weeks after polls close.
For its June primary, Pennsylvania implemented no-excuse absentee voting, meaning voters did not need an excuse to request an absentee ballot, for the first time ever. Mail-in ballots skyrocketed to over 1.4 million in the state, overloading the system and delaying the outcomes of several races by weeks.
Roughly two months out from the general election, lawmakers and strategists are still debating ways to shore up the voting process, causing headaches for those in charge of managing the election’s logistics at the ground level.
“I’ve got a growing list of things that I’d normally do, but I can’t,” Forrest Lehman, elections director for Lycoming County, told <a href="https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/politics/decision-2020/lection-chiefs-worry-about-uncertainty-as-voting-nears/2522896/">NBC</a>. “We don’t know what the rules are.”
Republicans in the state legislature are pushing legislation that would allow election officials to begin opening mail-in ballots three days before the election to get a head start on counting absentee votes. Wolf opposes the measure for the limit it would place on the time to request an absentee ballot.
In the meantime, some local governments, such as Philadelphia’s, have been upgrading equipment and purchasing sanitizer and other pandemic supplies with money from private grants as well as government funds. Philadelphia City Commissioners Lisa Deeley said that even with a $10 million grant, the city will be ill-equipped for the flood of mail-in ballots.
“Even with all that equipment, with nearly 400,000 ballots that we expect to receive, it&#8217;s physically impossible that they will all be opened and scanned before the polls close on Election Day,” Deeley told Politico. “The new reality is winners and losers are not going to be known at the end of the night.”
Earlier this week, the Democratic data firm <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-data-firm-says-apparent-trump-election-landslide-could-turn-into-biden-win-days-later-with-mail-in-ballots">Hawkfish</a> predicted a “red mirage” on election night that showed President Trump beating Democratic nominee Joe Biden by a landslide, then slowly losing ground — and eventually the election — days later as mail-in votes were tallied.
Former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, who has raised election concerns with Wolf’s office, said that an election night fiasco like that would allow Trump to claim victory prematurely “and create fear and doubt in the process.”
“And that is what I am very worried about. And that is certainly very possible in Pennsylvania because of the current restrictions that we have,” Nutter said.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) dismissed Nutter’s concerns as fear-mongering.
“Sounds like someone is worried about losing Pennsylvania this November and it isn’t President Trump,” RNC spokesman Michael Joyce told Politico. “While Democrats zero in on pushing theoretical conspiracy theories, Pennsylvania Trump Victory continues to focus on the voters who will put President Trump over the top once again in the Keystone State.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-attorney-general-william-barr-absolutely-destroys-cnns-wolf-blitzer-on-voter-fraud">WATCH: Attorney General William Barr Absolutely Destroys CNN’s Wolf Blitzer On Voter Fraud</a>
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Pennsylvania Democrats ‘Very Worried’ About Mail-In Voting Causing Election Chaos

Pennsylvania Democrats are scrambling to bolster the state’s vote-by-mail procedures to avoid a repeat of June’s primary process in the general election.

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Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to include additional information and context about the example Attorney General Bill Barr cited in the interview below. The update can be found in brackets at the bottom of the piece.
Attorney General William Barr dismantled CNN host Wolf Blitzer during an interview on Wednesday afternoon over the issue of universal mail-in voting.
&#8220;Wolf, this is sort of cheap talk to get around the fundamental problem, which is the bipartisan commission chaired by Jimmy Carter and James Baker said back in 2009 that mail-in voting is fraught with the risk of fraud and coercion,&#8221; Barr said before Wolf tried to interrupt him. &#8220;Let me talk.&#8221;
&#8220;And since that time, there have been in the newspapers, in networks, academic studies saying it is open to fraud and coercion,&#8221; Barr continued. &#8220;The only time the narrative changed is after this administration came in. But elections that have been held with mail have found substantial fraud and coercion. For example, we indicted someone in Texas—1,700 ballots collected from people who could vote, he made them out and voted for the person he wanted to. That kind of thing happens with mail-in ballots.&#8221;
Blitzer pushed back by continuing to advance Democratic talking points, claiming that “we haven’t seen” widespread fraud.
“Well we haven’t had the kind of widespread use of mail in ballots as being proposed,” Barr said. “We’ve had absentee ballots from people who request them from a specific address. Now what we’re talking about is mailing them to everyone on the voter list, when everyone knows those voter lists are inaccurate. People who should get them don’t get, which has been one of the major complaints in states that have tried this in municipal elections, and people who get them are not the right people, they’re people who have replaced the previous occupant, and they can make [the ballot] out and sometimes multiple ballots come to the same address with several generations of occupants.”
“Do you think that’s a way to run a vote?” Barr blasted Blitzer.
“This is playing with fire,” Barr continued. “We’re a very closely divided country here, and people have to have confidence in results of the election and the legitimacy of the government and people trying to change the rules to this methodology—which as a matter of logic is very open to fraud and coercion—is reckless and dangerous, and people are playing with fire.”
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This article has been updated to include additional transcript from Attorney General William Barr&#8217;s interview with CNN host Wolf Blitzer.
[After the CNN interview, Kerri Kupec, a DOJ spokesperson, told <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/barr-claims-a-man-collected-1700-ballots-and-filled-them-out-as-he-pleased-prosecutors-say-thats-not-what-happened/2020/09/03/923aafac-ee2e-11ea-ab4e-581edb849379_story.html">The Washington Post</a> that Barr was given a memo that “contained an inaccurate summary” of the local Texas case, “which he relied upon when using the case as an example.” Mike Snipes, then-first assistant district attorney for Dallas County, told the Post that investigators initially believed up to 1,700 ballots could be fraudulent, but ultimately “did not uncover that.”]
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A Democratic analytics firm is warning that the results of the presidential election may swing wildly days after election night as an unprecedented number of mail-in and absentee ballots are counted.
Josh Mendelsohn, CEO of Hawkfish, explained his firm’s election night projections in an appearance on “<a href="https://www.axios.com/bloomberg-group-trump-election-night-scenarios-a554e8f5-9702-437e-ae75-d2be478d42bb.html">Axios on HBO</a>” in a clip released on Tuesday. Mendelsohn said that a “red mirage” may take place on election night showing an overwhelming victory for President Trump before Democratic nominee Joe Biden wins the election days later.
“The reason we talk about a red mirage is in fact because we believe that on election night, we’re going to see Donald Trump in a stronger position than the reality actually is,” Mendelsohn said. “We are sounding an alarm and saying that this is a very real possibility, that the data is going to show on election night an incredible victory for Donald Trump.
“That is likely to be what we see when every legitimate vote is tallied, and we get to that final day which will be Sunday after Election Day, it will, in fact, show that what happened on election night was exactly that, a mirage,” he continued. “It looked like Donald Trump was in the lead and he fundamentally was not when every ballot gets counted.”
Hawkfish estimates that a record 40% of registered voters will send their ballots <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-mail-in-voting-experiment-shows-potentially-serious-issue">through the mail</a> this election cycle, roughly doubling the number that did so in 2016, because of the coronavirus pandemic. Several states and localities that have held primaries amid the pandemic have struggled under an avalanche of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wisconsins-vote-by-mail-debacle-was-worse-than-you-think">mail-in ballots</a>, a potential bellwether, or what is to come in a national election.
In New York City, election officials <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/nyregion/nyc-mail-ballots-voting.html">discarded</a> over 84,000 ballots, more than 20% of those sent in, for defects such as a missing signature or for a late arrival during its primary. In many cases, the ballots themselves were to blame, or the prepaid envelopes sent with them, or the process of voting by mail. Election results for several races were delayed for well over a month.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americas-chief-law-enforcement-officer-democrats-grossly-irresponsible-to-push-mail-in-voting-its-reckless-and-wrong">Trump administration</a> has been warning about the risks of universal mail-in ballots for months.
Mendelsohn hinted that the election chaos may cause a repeat of the presidential election saga of 2000 between former Vice President Al Gore and President George W. Bush. A recount of votes in Florida triggered a 36-day delay in election results. This time around, however, what happened in Florida may happen across several battleground states with tight margins.
“So a state like Pennsylvania or Florida, it’s in play by just a couple points, and that’s what tips it in one direction or another,” Mendelsohn said. “If you were to essentially average battleground state polling, Joe Biden appears to be ahead by about 8%. And so if you have a number of ballot challenges in a state like that, as big as it is, as large as the population is, as diverse as the population is, it could make a really big difference over those next ten days.”
“When you start accounting for that in your modeling, you see that 8% lead kind of whittle down a little, a little bit more, and a little bit more. We might have the results saying something on the evening of Nov. 3 that it will not say the evening of Nov. 10,” he added.
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Dem Data Firm Says Apparent Trump Election Landslide Could Turn Into Biden Win Days Later With Mail-In Ballots

A Democratic analytics firm is warning that the results of the presidential election may swing wildly days after election night as an unprecedented number

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A judge in Iowa ordered 50,000 absentee ballot requests to be voided after President Donald Trump’s campaign argued a county elections commissioner acted improperly when he sent the requests out with voter’s personal information already filled out.
Judge Ian Thornhill issued a temporary injunction, The Associated Press <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1238665">reported</a>, which requires Linn County Auditor Joel Miller “to notify voters in writing that the forms should not have been pre-filled with their information and cannot be processed.”
When Miller sent absentee ballot request forms to 140,000 voters in July, personal information – including names, dates of birth, even voter identification numbers – were already filled out. Miller, a Democrat, violated a “clear directive” from Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate, who said in July that county officials must provide blank absentee ballot request forms to voters, Thornhill ruled.
Miller said he was just trying to make voting easier by having the information already filled out, including the four-digit voter identification numbers that most people don’t know. Republicans argued that having voters fill out their own forms would make absentee voting more secure.
Democrats argue otherwise, claiming that such requirements will “disenfranchise” voters and lead to suppression.
In June, the AP reported, Iowa’s Republican-controlled legislature passed a law that required voters to fill in their own information instead of allowing auditors to fill in that information ahead of time. If there are any errors on the ballot request, auditors must reach out to voters by email or mail to get the mistakes corrected.
“Miller and elections commissioners in Johnson and Woodbury counties said contacting voters who leave the information blank would have been too burdensome and potentially disenfranchised people, so they mailed forms with that information already filled in. They contended that the law did not block them from doing so,” the AP reported. “Trump&#8217;s campaign and state and national Republican Party groups filed lawsuits against the three counties, seeking to invalidate all forms returned in response to the mailings. They warned that any ballots cast in response to the mailings could be challenged later.”
More from the AP:
<blockquote>Thornhill&#8217;s ruling, issued after he heard arguments Thursday, is the first so far. Another hearing is set for Friday in Woodbury County, where 14,000 of the absentee ballot requests have been returned. A hearing in the Democratic stronghold of Johnson County, where thousands more have been returned, is planned for next week.
Thornhill, appointed by Democratic Gov. Chet Culver in 2009, ruled that the Trump campaign and Republican groups had legal standing to bring the case. He found that they demonstrated a likelihood of being harmed, noting that not all Iowa counties have the money to send out pre-filled absentee ballot requests.
He found that Trump and the GOP would likely prevail on the merits, saying Miller&#8217;s decision to populate the forms sent to voters went against Pate&#8217;s directive and the intent of the new law.</blockquote>
Thornhill added that Miller’s “words and actions show he was aware of the risk he was taking” and that now steps would have to be taken to rectify Miller’s actions, adding that voters still had time to acquire new request forms.
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Judge Tosses 50,000 Absentee Ballot Requests After Commissioner Fills Out Voter Information

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A judge in Iowa ordered 50,000 absentee ballot requests to be voided after President Donald Trump’s campaign argued a county elections commissioner acted

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