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28 Million Mail-In Ballots Have Gone Missing
Frontpage Mag ^ | 17 April 20 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 04/17/2020 5:10:06 AM PDT by Bruiser 10

The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) today released a research brief detailing national figures for mail balloting failures, according to previous federal surveys.

Roughly 1 in 5 ballots never completed the mail voting process in the past decade.

“Putting the election in the hands of the United States Postal Service would be a catastrophe. Over the recent decade, there were 28 million missing and misdirected ballots,” PILF President and General Counsel J. Christian Adams said. “These represent 28 million opportunities for someone to cheat. Absentee ballot fraud is the most common; the most expensive to investigate; and can never be reversed after an election. The status quo was already bad for mail balloting. The proposed emergency fix is worse.”

The EAC defines “unknown” ballots as those that “were not returned by voter, spoiled, returned as undeliverable, or otherwise unable to be tracked by your office.”

(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ballots; election; mail; voting
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Sure, let's do mail-in voting. What's the worst that could happen? It's not like mail-in voting isn't a massive dead letter office of fraud.
1 posted on 04/17/2020 5:10:06 AM PDT by Bruiser 10
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To: Bruiser 10

I’m sure good number of those were our servicemen overseas.


2 posted on 04/17/2020 5:10:56 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Be still, and know that I am God...Psalm 46:10)
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To: Bruiser 10

Eric Holder Slips Up, Calls Coronavirus ‘An Opportunity’ To Permanently Change America’s Voting System

[TOTAL MASSIVE VOTE HARVESTING ELECTION FRAUD]

“Coronavirus gives us an opportunity to revamp our electoral system so that it permanently becomes more inclusive and becomes easier for the American people to access,” Holder said.

https://trendingpolitics.com/eric-holder-slips-up-calls-coronavirus-an-opportunity-to-permanently-change-america-s-voting-system/


3 posted on 04/17/2020 5:12:58 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Bruiser 10

My belief is that if Hillary Clinton is the Democrat nominee in 2020, she will get 400 million more votes that Donald Trump. Because mail-in votes.


4 posted on 04/17/2020 5:13:08 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Bruiser 10
I agree that mail-in voting is a disaster, but this article is misleading. A ballot that hasn’t been returned or is unreadable on its return isn’t “missing.”

The problem nobody wants to admit is that an awful lot of Americans are simply too lazy and/or stupid to cast votes correctly.

5 posted on 04/17/2020 5:14:05 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And somewhere in the darkness ... the gambler, he broke even.")
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To: Bruiser 10

The only way the Rats can win is by cheating. There’s only one way to fix that problem. And it won’t be pretty.


6 posted on 04/17/2020 5:16:38 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: ClearCase_guy

My belief is that if Hillary Clinton is the Democrat nominee in 2020, she will get 400 million more votes that Donald Trump. Because mail-in votes.
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If you said 40 million that would be absolutely believable. There was


7 posted on 04/17/2020 5:16:49 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Be still, and know that I am God...Psalm 46:10)
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To: Alberta's Child

A very good point and a problem largely corrected by in-person voting.


8 posted on 04/17/2020 5:17:17 AM PDT by Bruiser 10 (Will you Boogaloo?)
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To: HighSierra5

This should never be allowed to pass


9 posted on 04/17/2020 5:17:45 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: CincyRichieRich

An article sometime back about the Democrats trying to register 40 million new voters and I’m sure many of those are dead people and illegal aliens.


10 posted on 04/17/2020 5:17:47 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Be still, and know that I am God...Psalm 46:10)
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To: Bruiser 10

I really do not think 28 million ballots were lost by the USPS itself. A few thousand, maybe, but I not even close to a million. I’ve voted by mail and such envelopes, especially several thousand, would be very obvious even to the most irresponsible person.

There must be some way the ballots otherwise become unaccountable once mailed that our dearest rat friends take advantage of. These are the ones with the motive, they’ve figured out the means and opportunity. Just because they are vile America haters does not mean they are all AOC grade stupid.


11 posted on 04/17/2020 5:22:04 AM PDT by redfreedom
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I’m retired Military living overseas and haven’t seen a ballot in years. So I don’t waste my time any more!


12 posted on 04/17/2020 5:22:35 AM PDT by Doofer
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To: Bruiser 10

"Give up. Soros owns the voting booths,
the voting machines, the vote counters, and us.
And like that, Hillary wins ... and the Adrenochrome flows."

13 posted on 04/17/2020 5:22:40 AM PDT by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)
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To: Bruiser 10

Ah, goes along with one of the Democrat operating rules (never published, of course): “Never let a possible crime go uncommitted.”


14 posted on 04/17/2020 5:24:16 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Bruiser 10

The Democrats know they can’t bus people around from state to state like the good ole Democrat days this year.


15 posted on 04/17/2020 5:27:40 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Bruiser 10
The VAST majority of the numbers cited are from California which defines a spoiled mail in ballot to be one of the following:

One which can not be delivered (because the person has moved.)

One which was never returned

One which didn't have a preference marked on any proposition or election race (for most common example, a judge isn't selected, or only one is selected when 2 or more may be.)

Millions of mail in ballots weren't returned in November 2019 in Los Angeles County, nor in June 2019.

I believe those two elections in California alone account for over half of the ‘gone missing’ ballots. I know the claim in my area from March was that over 75,000 ballots ‘had gone missing’ - Nahh, people got them and didn't return them.

16 posted on 04/17/2020 5:28:35 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: HighSierra5

There are four boxes to be used
in the defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury and ammo.
Please use in that order.


17 posted on 04/17/2020 5:29:41 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Well, I got it!


18 posted on 04/17/2020 5:30:22 AM PDT by Does so (Call it the CCP-virus...The Corona-virus dies in Summer's sunlight! But next spring's Chinese virus?)
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To: Bruiser 10

“A very good point and a problem largely corrected by in-person voting.”

Voting should be as follows:
- Registration 30 days in advance or more.
- Advance in person voting at the election office or specially designated secure polling place supervised by the board of elections. Advance voting no more than 14 days in advance of election day.
- Absentee mail in ballots requested by mail (or internet application) at least 30 days in advance of election day. A person who requests an absentee ballot will not be allowed to vote in person unless the absentee ballot is brought with them to a physical polling place.
- Voter ID required for in person voting. Signature required for absentee voting.
- “Harvesting of absentee ballots should be illegal. On person, one vote, one ballot.

Controls on the integrity of ballots does not disenfranchise any legitimate citizen voter. Voter ID is easy to obtain legitimately. Free transportation to the polls is easy to obtain. If you can’t get a friend or family member to take you political parties and many civic organizations have volunteers who take people to the polls. If a citizen cares enough to vote, that citizen will vote.


19 posted on 04/17/2020 5:35:20 AM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on i)
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To: Bruiser 10

“Over the recent decade, there were 28 million missing”

What does missing mean?

If someone requested an absentee ballot but does not complete and return it, does that count as missing? Given the low turnout in US elections compared with many other countries it would not surprise me if about 1/5 of the voters don’t bother returning their ballot.


20 posted on 04/17/2020 5:36:02 AM PDT by FewsOrange
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