Mail-in Voting

fishing conservative said:

The only good Telstar is the one who is an angry little 13 year old who adds nothing to the discussion but hatred. Doh! And that's exactly the one we have..

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I don't know THAT Telstar. He must be the Telstar who enjoyed cornholing your wife until your daughter came along and he enjoyed cornholing her until you came along and he enjoyed cornholing all three of you. I don't know that Telstar but I do know you. Peekaboo, we see you Fishy Conservaturd.

fishing conservative said:

" I did not have sex woth that woman, ms lewinski"
Bill Clinton

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A former US Postal Service worker tossed dozens of other absentee ballots and other mail into a dumpster in Kentucky, federal prosecutors said. DeShawn Bojgere, 30, who no longer works for USPS, was charged with delay or destruction of mail-in connection to the ballot dump earlier this month in Louisville, the US Attorney Russell Coleman’s office said. More than 100 general election absentee ballots being sent out to voters were discarded in a construction dumpster, prosecutors said. They were tossed along with 69 mixed class pieces of mail, 320 second-class pieces of mail and two national election campaign flyers from a political party in Florida.

Project Veritas dropped a video Tuesday on what the conservative watchdog group called “a ballot harvesting racket deep in the heart of Texas.”

Did James O'keefe finish puberty yet?

The campaigns for President Trump and Minnesota GOP state legislature candidates on Wednesday filed a motion for the state’s supreme court to order the separation of all mail ballots received after Election Day, the latest in a challenge to the state’s extension of its absentee ballot counting deadline.

According to the court filing, the campaigns are asking the Minnesota Supreme Court to segregate ballots received after Nov. 3, arguing that “it could be impossible for a court to repair the election results tainted by illegally and untimely cast or mailed ballots if the ballots are not segregated.”

This comes as the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals heard arguments Wednesday in a separate case against Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon over the extension of Minnesota's absentee ballot counting deadline by seven days.

On Oct. 11, a state judge upheld the extension after State Rep. Eric Lucero (R) and Ramsey County GOP activist James Carson called on U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel, a Trump appointee, to rule that the extension was a violation of federal law, which establishes Nov. 3 as the 2020 election date.

The video, launched by Project Veritas and James O’Keefe, showed Raquel Rodriguez offering to buy people off to vote the way she wanted them to, admitting that Trump was right and that voter fraud was rampant, admitted to bringing in 7000 votes, possibly all fraudulently, and openly admitted that what she’s doing is illegal and she could go to jail for doing it.

As many feared, the election has ended, but it isn’t over. Ballots are still being tallied, and races in Nevada and Pennsylvania remain up in the air. Even when finished, there will be angry disputes. The counts will go on, but even when done they’ll be litigated for months. Blame the Democrats’ vote-by-mail scheme for the election chaos. Fed up with riots, demonstrations, nonstop name-calling and demonization of political opponents, Americans speak longingly of a clear result to our elections that would let us all get on with our lives.

Fox News’ “decision desk” team, which makes the network’s election night calls, was the first to call Arizona for Joe Biden Tuesday night. Fox’s call came so early, in fact, that the network’s anchors seemed surprised. President Trump was reportedly furious with his favorite network, and he criticized the decision in an early morning White House appearance, specifically dismissing “the gentleman who called it.” That gentleman was Arnon Mishkin — a Jewish registered Democrat from New York who is the leader and face of the Fox numbers team.

Republicans in Wisconsin are raising questions about the large number of people, particularly new voters, who avoided having to show a photo ID to vote by listing themselves as “indefinitely confined.” When requesting an absentee ballot, Wisconsin law allows voters to self-certify if they are “indefinitely confined” to their residence because of age, physical illness, or are disabled for an indefinite period of time. Doing so allows them to submit an absentee ballot without having to show any form of photo ID, although they must have a ballot witness sign off.

U.S. Postal service (USPS) facilities reported receiving thousands of mail-in ballots nearly a week after Election Day, though many will not be counted due to arriving too late.

The late ballots were reported at facilities across the country Monday, including some meant for closely contested races in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Arizona.

Still, the vote amounts received at mailing centers on Monday was too small to alter the election results even if they could be qualified as states are no longer accepting incoming votes to that count toward election results.

Postal facilities found ballots amounting to 121 in Atlanta, 293 in Philadelphia, 109 in Central Pennsylvania, 171 in Central Arizona, and 83 in Detroit.

While votes continue to be counted in states such as Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina, others are preparing to enter recount periods, such as Georgia and Wisconsin.

More than 10,000 people confirmed or suspected dead have returned their mail-in ballots to vote in Michigan, according to an analysis of the state’s election data. About 9,500 voters confirmed dead through the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) are marked in the state’s mail voting database as having returned their ballots. Another nearly 2,000 are 100 years old or more and are not listed as known living centenarians.

The absurd delays in ballot-counting across the country add weight to arguments against the wide use of early- and mail-in voting. They also should make opponents of early voting consider other alternatives that would make voting easier. The case against widespread early voting already was substantial. Having a single, national Election Day is a civic ritual useful for a sense of shared national purpose, and it also ensures that most voters will cast ballots with access to the same bank of information. As it is, early voters operate without knowledge of any late-breaking news.

During primary season earlier this year, we know that a lot of mail-in ballots were thrown out for failing to meet various state law requirements. In New York City, during New York State’s June 23 primary, 21% of all mail-in ballots—totaling approximately 84,000 raw votes—were invalidated. Those 84,000 (non-)votes, if properly sprinkled across Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Arizona, could have already come close to securing a second term for President Trump. This presidential race, across the true nail-biter states, really is that close.

Other examples abound. In the Wisconsin primary, the rejection rate was around 2%—which seems low until one considers that the raw total of rejected ballots was 23,169, greater than Trump’s current deficit in the Badger State. In Pennsylvania, election officials were fretting as recently as late September that the commonwealth might have to reject as many as 100,000 mail-in ballots.

Given this, I have a very simple question. Are we completely certain that “all” of these mail-in ballots across the battleground states, which have disproportionately gone to Biden due to the very simple fact that the Democrats heavily campaigned on a mass mail-in voting platform, are legitimate? Are we completely sure that each and every mail-in ballot that has been cast for Biden has, in fact, been in legal compliance with the relevant rules and regulations of that specific voting jurisdiction?

According to the U.S. Elections Project, as of November 5, there were 1,009 mail ballots rejected in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania out of over 2.6 million mail-in ballots cast. That is simply implausible. The same website reports a miserly mail-in ballot rejection rate in Georgia of 0.2% (also as of November 5), despite the fact that it had a rejection rate during primary season earlier this year of roughly 1%. Georgia, of course, is a state where Trump currently trails Biden by roughly 12,000 raw votes.

There may well be innocent explanations for all of this. But it would be far too easy to imagine one-party Democratic machine jurisdictions padding the vote tally for their candidate by mass non-disqualification of mail-in ballots that would otherwise merit closer scrutiny. Why is no one on the Right bringing up this exceedingly straightforward point?

The president’s legal team, and other astute public observers, need to start raising these questions. We need full transparency, and we need answers. And we need them now.

Mail fraud -- Interception

The most vulnerable part of our election system is the mailed ballot. The signed outer envelope has almost no security to protect the ballot inside, and there is no security to protect the envelope in its voyage. There are many ways to commit fraud with mailed ballots. Imagine a fraudster calling ahead with a message like, “Hi, this is Mike with the Lehigh County Republicans. Don’t trust the Post Office with your ballot. This Wednesday, we will be in your neighborhood between 1 and 3 to collect ballots and make sure they are counted.” Ever the dutiful Republican, your 80-year-old mother fills out her ballot and Mike shows up at her door, just as promised. Working with a driver, three minutes per stop, up to 20 or more ballots per hour, 160 per day, up to 6400 strong Republican ballots disposed of throughout the mail voting period. A crew of amateurs did 900 in a week.

Mail fraud -- Flipping

But instead of disposing of those Republican ballots, the envelopes can be steamed open and the ballots replaced with Democrat ballots. Steaming and stuffing an envelope might take about five minutes, so add one more person and 100 ballots are flipped per day, 4000 flipped during mail voting. A three-person crew eliminates 6400 Trump ballots and gives Biden 4000, a 10,400 ballot swing. If the driver and collector put in some extra hours to steam ballots, all 6400 could be flipped to yield a 12,800 ballot swing, with just three people and a robocall.

Restoring the election

Apart from punishing corruption months or years later, when against corrupt officials there appears little to do. Despite apparently losing the election, was Kennedy removed from office and Nixon sworn in? There is hope for Trump, but the courts must act uncharacteristically aggressively toward election fraud, ordering forensic inspections and audits at even the appearance of fraud.

Impersonation and double-voting can be detected through auditing, but those ballots are mixed in the box, identical to the others. Some states may have ways to filter them, assuming they are discovered before certification.

Intercepted ballots are gone. Ten people vanish 50,000 Trump votes. Biden wins. Get over it. Even if people report, “these guys pretended to be Republicans and took my ballot,” there is no replacement ballot. Flipped ballots are likely unofficial copies and might be forensically detected, if a court orders it. If Trump is only 40,000 votes down and there are 200,000 fake Biden ballots (from a crew of 48 people), catching a fifth of those would change the result. Hopefully, where the election officials stayed open late behind closed doors to receive fake ballots, the courts will order a forensic inspection prior to certification.

The Democrat and media assertions are bunk. Fraud occurs on scales that easily change outcomes and involves conspiracies that are discovered. In 2020, there are dozens of potentially corrupt jurisdictions that have acted suspiciously, and dozens of other unconfirmed allegations, and any one of them could significantly change the result.

A Republican state Senate candidate is appealing the decision by Allegheny County, Pennsylvania to count over 2,000 mail-in ballots with no date. Ziccarelli, 38, an attorney, filed a petition in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court to set aside the 2,349 ballots in question. The Allegheny County Board of Elections voted on Nov. 10 to count the ballots even though they had no date on them.
Ziccarelli argued that the Election Code does not allow mail-in ballots to be counted unless they are signed and dated.

A California judge has ruled that Gov. Gavin Newsom overstepped his authority when he issued an executive order requiring vote-by-mail ballots sent to all registered voters, according to reports. Sutter County Superior Court Judge Sarah Heckman ruled Friday that Newsom did not have the authority to amend or change existing election law – even during a pandemic. The ruling put a permanent injunction on Newsom, prohibiting him from changing existing law under the California Emergency Services Act (CESA), according to KCRA.

Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams announced Sunday that “more than 600,000 Georgians have requested their mail ballots” for the Senate runoff elections on January 5, urging her followers to support the Democrat candidates.“More than 600,000 Georgians have requested their mail ballots for the January 5 runoff elections,” Abrams wrote in a tweet Sunday morning. “Help elect @ReverendWarnock and @ossoff to the U.S. Senate by requesting your ballot today.”

Mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania so far this year have been accepted at almost 30 times the rate predicted by historical rejection numbers, raising potential questions in a state in which Democratic challenger Joe Biden is maintaining a lead of just several thousand votes.

A county-by-county review by Just the News of accepted and rejected mail-in ballots throughout the state of Pennsylvania show that, when added up, the state only rejected 951 of 2,614,011 mail-in ballots this year, or a rate of 0.03%.

That is significantly less than the historical rate of mail-in ballot rejection, which generally hovers around 1%. For first-time mail-in voters the rate can jump as high as 3%.

In 2016, the state saw about 266,208 mail-in ballots; just under 1% of them, 2,534, were rejected, roughly in line with historical expectations, according to the 2016 Election Administration and Voting Survey.

At that historical rate of rejection, around 26,000 mail-in ballots would be rejected from this year's final Pennsylvania tally. Such numbers would not have been unexpected: Last month, for instance, the Bucks County Courier Times estimated that, based on predicted vote-by-mail turnout, around 28,000 Pennsylvanians might have had their ballots pulled, rather than the 951 that were ultimately dumped.

The Pennsylvania Secretary of State's office did not immediately respond to requests for comment via email and phone on Friday afternoon regarding the abnormally low rejection rate.

Mail-in ballots rejected for a variety of reasons

Voting by mail, unsurprisingly, has a significantly higher rejection rate than voting in person. Voters who use mail-in ballots often make errors such as miswritten forms, non-matching signatures and improper vote tabulation.

That number goes up for first-time mail-in voters, with rejected rates among that group sometimes reaching rates as high as 3%. Millions of Americans voted by mail for the first time during the 2020 election, largely out of concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic.

In Pennsylvania on Friday afternoon, the race between Democrat Joe Biden and Republican President Donald Trump was razor-thin, with nearly all the ballots counted and Biden leading by around 13,000 votes.