I get so frustrated that the MSM especially doesn't seem to make the distinction between "absentee voting" and "JUNK MAIL Voting"!
I've called it "JUNK MAIL voting" because "JUNK MAIL voting" is simple. The election offices simply MAIL ballots to the addresses they have on record.
YUP... KNOWING that nationally that 10.1% move each year that means for example 1 million addresses 100,000 people addressed HAVE moved.
So what happens to those 100,000 ballots?
NOW versus ABSENTEE balloting which REQUIRES the voter to REQUEST a ballot which is sent AFTER the election office VALIDATES the person requested is a legitimate citizen...i.e. using photo id or some other verification process including the signature on the request. THEN an absentee ballot is MAILED and the recipient completed the ballot... puts into an covering envelope and then puts into a provided mailing envelope THAT the voter SIGNS again. Once the absentee ballot received the outside signature checked against signature on file to verify the identity !
SO do all of you (INCLUDING the MSM!!!) NOW understand the distinction?
JUNK MAIL has no verification that the recipient is at the address...with 10% of Americans moving every year... millions of incorrect mail!
ABSENTEE ballot though are REQUESTED not JUNK MAILED!
Absentee ballot is signed and verified ...JUNK MAIL is NOT!
Understand the distinctions???
I get so frustrated because the Trump Cult continues to spread lies, disinformation and propaganda about mail-in voting.
All of the verifications you seek are contained in all mail-in ballots, whether the voter asked for the ballot or not. There's also a further verification you failed to mention. The identity of the voter signing the mail in ballot is CERTIFIED by a Notary Public, and that certification is affixed to the ballot.
9 states have been conducting voting by mail with ballots being mailed to everyone in the state for generations with no problems with fraud or difficulties certifying the vote. Mail in voting has been going on in the military since the country has had a standing military. It even happened during the Civil War.
The ONLY people in the country who says that mail-in voting is a problem is Trump and his staff. And that's because Trump knows he's losing. Trump has said "We have to get rid of the ballots". He is prepared to go the Supreme Court to overturn the election. He's called on the militias to defend him if he loses.
This is sedition against the Constitution of the United States. Shame on you!!!
Trump needs an excuse for why he loses.
Last time, it was 3 million illegal aliens voting.
Now, he has created a false conspiracy that mail in voting is fixed
NO it is NOT false because any logical rational human KNOWS that with 10% of Americans moving every year, and with states bulk Mailing JUNK MAIL ballots, there will be people who will sign the ballots fraudulently. And that with the gross increase due to JUNK MAIL ballots, there WILL be more ballots with fraudulent signatures NOT rejected. IT IS GUARANTEED!
You are a new resident. A mail in ballot for the previous resident arrives. So you open it up, fake his signature and mail it.
It arrives and the signature is compared to the one on file and is rejected. Rather than just throw it out, they contact you and ask you to verify your identity.
You have now subjected yourself to prosecution for ONE VOTE
YOU are 100% correct on all the above steps.
BUT that totally depends on VERY few ABSENTEE ballots with few false signatures, and "they" contacting you!
With the emphasis on JUNK MAIL balloting increasing the number of ballots being unsolicited and mailed to people that may have moved...there is guaranteed an increase in fraud. NO question and if you think there won't be? YOU are terribly naive!
The organization's analysis said that if election turnout increases in accordance with predictions, about 80 million mail ballots would be sent to election offices this fall, a figure that is more than double the number of ballots that were returned four years ago.
As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across America, discussions about safety at polling places forced states to make mail voting more accessible.
www.foxnews.com
Using the average number of Americans that move each year is about 10% of the population... 10% of 80 million is 8 million votes that are possibly mailed
to a voter who no longer lives there.
So if 8 million votes are potential fraudulently submitted and it depends on people being contacted and then charges filed and then arrested and then the fraudulent signer goes to court and then found guilty..... YOU really think all those steps will occur?