Mail-In Ballots Make Voter Fraud Easy. I Know Because I Did It.
The coronavirus outbreak is wreaking havoc on America’s elections, as evidenced by the fight over Wisconsin’s primary this week.
One proposed solution is moving everyone to voting by mail, but President Trump isn’t a fan. “A lot of people cheat with mail-in voting,” he said last week.
He’s got a point. I’ve done it myself.
In 2011, when I was living in Palm Beach County, Florida, I decided to test the system, and so I asked for three voter registration applications.
I filled them out, listing three different names — two that I pulled out of my head Rebecca Bugle and Hannah Arendt — and my own name, Margaret Menge.
I listed my real date of birth, and made up dates of birth for the other two. On the lines where the application asked for a driver’s license number or last four of social security number, I wrote “none” as the instructions said to do if a person has neither of these.
A few weeks later I got two notices back, saying applications for Rebecca Bugle and Margaret Menge could not be processed because a driver’s license number or social security number was not provided.
But I also received in my mailbox a new voter information card for Hannah Arendt…
…Eight years have passed, and I assumed that someone had taken ‘Hannah Arendt’ off the rolls by now.
But sure enough, when I checked the county website a few days ago, she was still there — with a message that read: “We have been unable to verify that this is your correct address. Please confirm or update your address with our office or use this website’s “Change of Address” feature before voting in the next election.”
I won’t be casting that fraudulent ballot. But I have to wonder: will my vote in the next election be canceled out by somebody who did?
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