USA ALL Mail in Ballots: Too Much Fraud

Why an "ALL" Mail-In Election Has Too Much Potential for Fraud - In 2008 the U.S. Supreme Court said when it upheld Indiana’s voter ID law:
“...flagrant examples of such fraud … have been documented throughout this Nation’s history by respected historians and journalists [including] Indiana’s own experience with fraudulent voting in the 2003 Democrat primary for East Chicago Mayor … demonstrate that not only is the risk of voter fraud real, but that it could affect the outcome of a close election.”

4-10-20, * -- President Trump recently said we do need absentee ballots for “many senior citizens, military and others who can’t get to the polls on Election Day.”  These voters legally request to receive ballots to vote by mail. Absentee ballots -  as suggested by the Democrats - would be sent to ALL on the voter rolls whether legitimate legal alive voters or not. These are the tools of election fraudsters because they are voted outside the supervision of election officials, making it easier to steal, forge, or alter them, as well as to intimidate voters. The following cases demonstrate that election fraud does occur and can compromise the integrity of the election process.   Voter registration rolls are notoriously inaccurate and out of date, containing the names of voters who are deceased, duplicates, illegal migrants, incorrect addresses or otherwise ineligible.  This potentiality gives opportunity for ballots being stolen and falsely cast.

• In California Los Angeles agreed to remove from the rolls 1.5 million individuals who remained registered even though they no longer were eligible to vote. Ballots are a valuable commodity. How many would have been voted anyway by fraudsters or vote harvesters collecting absentee ballots in neighborhoods throughout Los Angeles?
• In 2018 in North Carolina the 9th Congressional District race the result was overturned by the state election board because of illegal vote harvesting that included altering and forging absentee ballots.
• In Oregon that has an all mail in voting they like to brag ** https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/493100-former-oregon-official-touts-states-mail-in-two-decade-voting-record about the supposed “security” of their systems, which consists of almost nothing other than a rapid, superficial signature comparison. Melody Rose, an assistant professor of political science at Portland State University conducted a survey of Washington County, outside Portland. Five percent of registered voters admitted that other people marked their ballots, and 2.4% said someone else signed their ballots.  She suspected the actual number was higher, given that most people would not want to admit to being “party to a crime.” Result? Tens of thousands of mail-in ballots are being cast in Oregon by individuals other than the registered voter.

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The Election Fraud Database documents almost 1,300 proven instances of fraud, including numerous cases of absentee ballot fraud. Also 60+ instances of vote buying where purchasing votes is much easier with absentee or mail-in ballots. That fraud often targets the most vulnerable voters, including the elderly and the poor; examples: 

• In California: 
  • Richard Davis was convicted of a felony after registering his four dogs to vote as Democrats over a four-year period. Davis said his goal was to draw attention to the flawed voter registration system in his state, and he did notify the local district attorney’s office of what he was doing. Disregarding several warnings to stop those false registrations, and after registering his deceased father, too, Davis was charged and pleaded guilty to voter registration fraud. He never submitted a fraudulent vote, but he could have done so easily using absentee ballots if he hadn’t told officials what he was doing, since his “signature” for his dogs would have been a match on all of the forms.
  • In Sacramento, Gustavo Araujo Lerma, an illegal migrant from Mexico voted multiple times in elections  using a false identity. 
  • In Los Angeles district Norman Hall was involved in a scheme with eight other individuals involving the homeless on Skid Row. According to the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office, they “solicited hundreds of false and/or forged signatures on state ballot petitions and voter registration forms by offering homeless people $1 and/or cigarettes for their participation.”  The ballot petitions for which Hall and others gathered fraudulent signatures included calling for reducing jail time, changing the authority of the sheriff’s office and increasing taxes on millionaires and other business owners.
  • Jentry and Bradley Jasperson forged signatures of voters for a referendum initiative. They were each paid $5 per signature.  
• In New Jersey Frank Rabia, a City Council candidate in Hoboken bribed voters with $50 payments for mail-in ballots to support his candidacy. The purchaser—such as Rabia—can see the voter’s absentee ballot in the voter’s home and ensure he is getting what he paid for. A purchaser can’t do that when a voter goes into the privacy of a voting booth. 
• In New Mexico Laura Seeds and Dyon Herrera falsified absentee ballots in favor of Seeds’ husband, a Democrat candidate for City Council. The Public Interest Legal Foundation reported in an amicus brief of finding more than 3,000 people registered who would receive ballots automatically if the mail ballot lawsuits were successful:
  • Hundreds voted  multiple times
  • 1,700 registrants who are dead
  • 1,500 aged 100 or above (64 of whom are over 120 years old)
  • 200 individuals registered at commercial rather than residential addresses

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States should be doing everything they can to help everyone who is eligible to vote; but that doesn’t mean casting aside the safeguards in place to prevent elections from being stolen or compromised by administrative errors and fraud.

​President Trump was also right when he said we need voter ID laws as a basic security measure in voting. 

As for those who say there is no election fraud in the U.S. that we need be concerned about, they are wrong and the president is right. 

*Excerpted an adapted full original report from Heritage Foundation here
Voter ID Nationwide sought:
​https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/voter-id.aspx