Seventeen Mail-In-Voting Security Vulnerabilities

Unlike your local polling place, which has in-person identity verification and election judges, our postal system and our residences were never designed for ANY degree of election security. It seems odd that any honest person with any voting experience would imagine that there’s something OK with sending out millions of ballots to all voters. Here’s how mail-in voting would almost certainly fail many of us:

1. Your postal carrier could “lose” your ballot if he/she doesn’t like your yard signs.
2. Post office employees could “lose” ballots mailed from entire areas.
3. Post office employees could “lose” ballots sent to entire areas.
4. Garbage collectors and recyclers could retrieve discarded ballots from recycling bins.
5. Ballots mailed to people’s former addresses could be used by anyone at the address.
6. Ballots mailed to people who’ve died could be used by anyone at the address.
7. Nursing home employees could hijack ballots of feeble-minded residents.
8. Students attending college in non-home states would likely receive two ballots (there is little to no interstate election verification).
9. College administrators could harvest ballots of recent graduates whose address changes haven’t been recorded.
10. Ballot harvesters could canvass entire neighborhoods collecting empty ballots from feeble-minded or unconcerned residents.
11. Neighborhood gangs or political groups could force residents to fill out ballots “properly” under supervision.
12. Employers could force employees to fill out ballots “properly” under supervision.
13. Your spouse or other cohabitants could induce you to fill out your ballot “properly” under supervision.
14. Cohabitants of single-mailbox residences (such as shared student houses) could easily intercept each others’ ballots.
15. Apartment building landlords could harvest ballots from insecure mailboxes.
16. Black markets would certainly arise wherein unused ballots are bought & sold.
17. With our notoriously poorly maintained voter registration rolls, millions of ballots are guaranteed to be sent to the wrong people.

These are just off the top of my head, written down in ten minutes, and I didn’t even bother to include honest mistakes (failed deliveries, improperly filled ballots rejected due to lack of polling-place guidance, etc.). Just imagine what people more clever and more motivated than me could come up with!

Advocates for mail-in voting insist that there are relatively few prosecutions for voter fraud. Well obviously if we keep using a system where it is not even possible to detect fraud much less prosecute it, we aren’t going to be catching many perpetrators. I am waiting to hear, precisely, how any election official or law enforcement agency could ever discover any of the following:

· A husband forces his wife to give him her ballot, then fills it out and forces her to sign the security envelope, all in the privacy of their home.

· Under threat of dismissal for squealing or refusing to cooperate, a corporate or union boss forces employees to hand over their ballots & signed security envelopes, fills out the ballots, stuffs the envelopes, and sends them.

· A professional harvester canvasses a low-income neighborhood, paying residents for their empty ballots and signed security envelopes.

· Your friendly postman, who doesn’t like your politics, simply disposes of the ballot you sent.

· To earn extra income, postal employees provide a list of undeliverable addresses to a political party. With the help of a single corrupt election official, party operatives register fictitious persons at those addresses. Later, those same postal employees intercept and hand over the undeliverable ballots.

Really, this doesn’t take very much imagination.

The people who’ve bought into mail-in voting are either wolves or sheep, and the folks who actively promote it are the wolves. The flaws are just too ridiculously obvious for any reasonable, thinking person to ignore.