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Is Mail-In Ballot Fraud Real? Evidence Says Yes.

Evidence from countries that use mail-in – or postal – votes points to “widespread abuse” as Democrats in the United States seek to expand the process, piggybacking off the coronavirus pandemic to deliver on their goal of a less secure election. Speaker Nancy Pelosi signaled her intent in April: “Vote by mail is so important to… our democracy so that people have access to voting and not be deterred, especially at this time, by the admonition to stay home.” But while malls, cinemas, and restaurants begin to re-open, Americans are increasingly curious as to the keenness of Democrats to get people to vote by mail. As of August, at least three-quarters of Americans were eligible to vote by mail in some form. President Trump recently cited the New York Times’ number of 80 million ballots which will “flood election offices this fall, more than double the number that were returned in 2016.” That’s an unsettling number, given America’s relative inexperience with the process. Other nations have tried mail-in or postal voting for years, with almost none of the developed countries that use it allowed such widespread usage.

POLAND AND THE EUROPEAN UNION. In early 2020, the conservative government in Poland wanted to use mail-in ballots but was rebuked by the European Union for suggesting as much. “I followed this process very closely. I’m concerned about free and fair elections and the quality of voting, of the legality and constitutionality of such a vote,” EU Values and Transparency Commissioner Vera Jourova told Polish daily Rzeczpospolita in April. In fact recommendations by the Council of Europe encourage no rules changes in elections one year before those elections are set to take place. “Postal voting is a huge change and such a method is being used for the first time, people aren’t used to it,” Jourova said. And while Poland may be the most evident comparison from 2020, postal voting has been the subject of controversy for many decades.

UNITED KINGDOM. America’s mother country, the United Kingdom, has struggled to get a handle on postal voting since it was first introduced, en masse, in 2001. In 2006 the Council of Europe opened an investigation into allegations of “widespread absent vote fraud,” particularly on the back of a Birmingham (UK) judge declaring that he had heard evidence of fraud that “would disgrace a banana republic.” Later that year, politicians from the Liberal Democrat Party were found guilty of postal vote rigging, while fraudulent activity had been reported in London, Coventry, Bradford, Northern Ireland, and beyond. In one instance, 30,000 names were removed from the ballot in just one British city after major fraud was alleged. A leading UK charity published a report authored by Dr. Stuart Wilks-Heeg of the University of Liverpool in 2008. It said: “Greater use of postal voting has made UK elections far more vulnerable to fraud and resulted in several instances of large-scale fraud.”

https://thenationalpulse.com/politics/mail-in-ballot-fraud-is-real/

Where Americans Can Vote by Mail in the 2020 Elections

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/11/us/politics/vote-by-mail-us-states.html