Potential for Fraud Is Why Mail-In Elections Should Be Dead Letter
Article publisher:
Heritage Foundation
Article date:
18 May 2020
Article category:
National News
Medium
Article Body:
... Going entirely to by-mail elections would unwisely endanger the security and integrity of the election process, particularly if officials automatically mail absentee ballots to all registered voters without a signed, authenticated request from each voter.
Voter registration rolls are notoriously inaccurate and out of date, containing the names of voters who are deceased, have moved, or otherwise have become ineligible.
Having thousands of ballots arriving in the mail for individuals who no longer reside at a registered address risks those ballots being stolen and voted.
Yet many liberals are pushing that very process....
Trump was also right when he said we need voter ID laws as a basic security measure in voting....