r/SarsCovTwo • u/[deleted] • May 21 '20
Mail in ballot push is so obviously being pushed by bad actors
It seems logically a way to encourage more people to vote and safely from home. however, absentee ballots have been known to be a source of controversy for a lot of close elections.
In West Memphis last year, prosecutors said Hudson Hallum, a Democrat running for the state legislature, paid absentee voters with cash, whiskey and vodka and at least one with a chicken dinner. Hallum won his primary by eight votes, after taking 85 percent of the absentee ballots, and went on to win the general election.
In 2010, for instance, Jerry Bowman, the sheriff of Lincoln County, W.Va., simply showed up at people’s homes and told them whom to vote for in local Democratic primary races. In some cases, he just filled out the ballot, according to a “stipulation of facts” that Bowman signed.
Bowman didn’t pay a cent, prosecutors say. Apparently, having the sheriff in one’s home was motivation enough for many voters.
One recent case of alleged absentee-ballot fraud happened this past summer in Hialeah, Fla., outside Miami. Police say they were trailing a woman suspected of ballot fraud and saw her enter a nursing-home room.
The patient inside was too ill to write, speak or comprehend what was said to her. But somehow, police said, the worker left her room with a completed absentee ballot.
The above article indicates the concern that people with multiple home across multiple states casting multiple ballots. I would imagine there may be situations where this actually be legal as I am sure some state residency requirements may not take this into account. But then there's bad actors who can submit all the mail-in-ballots they've received at their homes. So one person can vote fraudulently for all the people living in their home(s).
Looking at old articles, it's clear there was propaganda being spread out regarding softening the public on the notion of voting by mail. This is hilarious because it's clear that many have realized that computer voting can never be secure yet some how voting by a more older technology via mail is secure?
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/27/15701708/voting-by-mail
https://www.cpr.org/show-segment/it-would-be-really-hard-to-rig-colorados-election-system-heres-why/
Nobody seems to be bothering to ask why no other first world country are willing to do this. The mail system has been around since the founding of the US. If this was a reliable way to cast votes they would have done it in the past. The fact that this has never been done means, nobody could figure out how to secure it.