Progressives Want Mail Voting. Here's why.
Article publisher:
FrontPage Mag
Article date:
17 April 2020
Article category:
National News
Medium
Article Body:
Federal data show that in the 2016 and 2018 elections, millions of ballots sent through the mail were never counted as valid votes. Many were sent to invalid addresses. Others were rejected for errors. And in 2018 alone, 10,475,573 were just listed as vanished for reasons “unknown.”
It’s no surprise then, to some, that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made federally mandated vote-by-mail requirements her top legislative response to the Coronavirus pandemic. Democrats have long lusted for federal mandates over our elections. They want Washington D.C. controlling the rules for elections. They hate how the Constitution gave power over elections to the states.
They also never let a crisis go to waste....
Pelosi’s vote by mail mandate puts the election of the president into the hands of the people who routinely deliver to your home your neighbor’s mail....
Think about that. Her final holdout demand wasn’t speedy FDA approval of a vaccine, or boosting respirator manufacturing. She dug in on how we vote...
Unfortunately, mail ballots are the easiest way for fraudsters to steal votes. I know this because I tried a case in federal court where mail ballot fraud helped keep a political machine in power...
In the progressive worldview, the [ballot] harvester is doing a good deed in collecting, and even voting, someone else’s ballot....