Wisconsin is discovering problems with absentee ballots, including hundreds that were never delivered

Milwaukee Journal ^ | April 8, 2020 | Patrick Marley. alison Dirr, et al.

[PBRCat]

Attention turned to missing absentee ballots Wednesday as state officials reported three tubs of them were discovered in a mail processing center and the Milwaukee Election Commission called for an investigation into a separate set of undelivered ballots.

And Fox Point officials said 100 or more ballots a day were returned to the village as undelivered in the week leading up to the election.

The discoveries emerged as would-be voters across the state expressed a host of frustrations about trying to obtain absentee ballots so they could avoid going to the polls during the coronavirus pandemic. Many have said ballots they requested long ago did not arrive by Tuesday, the deadline for getting their ballots postmarked.

"I learned today that the (Wisconsin Elections Commission) received a call from a postal service worker informing them 3 large tubs of absentee ballots from Oshkosh and Appleton, were just located."

As clerks processed absentee ballots Wednesday, they found a new issue to consider — envelopes that don't have postmarks.

Postmarks aren't used on a majority of absentee ballots from municipalities that use postage meters, according to Albrecht.

He said he anticipated the postmark issue would become particularly problematic for ballots received Wednesday that were clearly sent by the deadline but that don’t have a postmark.

He said he wasn’t sure whether those ballots would be counted or if the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling would be interpreted literally to disqualify ballots that don't have postmarks on them.

[Bommer]

Are Oshkosh and Appleton comservitive strong holds?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

All the ballots fit to harvest.

[Leep]

Maybe that is part of their master plan. Now they can “take steps to correct it” in time for the Presidential Election. With Biden/Clinton winning in a landslide thanks to “the new and improved” US Postal system.

[JimRed]

Is WI an open primary state? Are these selective non-deliveries?

[PBRCat]

The Democrats and Nancy Pelosi are complete and total hypocrites on the subject of COVID-19 and primary voting.

In Illinois, the primary election went forward over numerous objections, including that of the Chicago Board of Elections, despite the quarantine order being issued on four days earlier. The underlying reason is that the Democrat establishment believed that a low turn out election would benefit Biden and the Democratic ticket.

In Wisconsin, the Democrats were in favor of the election being held as scheduled until their efforts to dictate the rules and extend voting by mail were frustrated by the Wisconsin legislature, the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of the United States. Then it was all so unfair and unhealthy!

Studies have shown that ballots cast by mail represent the biggest opportunity for vote fraud to occur.

[nhbob1]

The local Post Office can’t deliver reliably period....I frequently receive mail addressed to other people and frequently have mail items vanish.

[mumblypeg]

I’ll keep going stompy foot on this: we need to get a posted online RECEIPT for our vote.
We should be able to go online, on & after election day, & verify that our vote — whether electronic, paper, in person or
mail in— was received & counted in the total.

[Catholic and Conservative]

That would help, but there is a still a risk that once you’ve mailed your vote back that someone will steam open the envelope and substitute a fake ballot.
https://nypost.com/2020/08/29/political-insider-explains-voter-fraud-with-mail-in-ballots/

If possible and practical, requiring ballots and their envelopes to have matching unique stamps or watermarks might make counterfeiting ballots more difficult.