Posted on 08/06/2020 5:04:13 AM PDT by gattaca
Most developed countries, especially in Europe, ban mail-in voting to fight vast fraud and vote buying that had threatened the integrity of their elections, according to an exhaustive review of voting rules and histories in over 30 major nations.
In the European Union, 63% have put a ban on mailing in ballots except for citizens living overseas. Another 22% have imposed a ban even for those overseas. And most of those that allow mail-in ballots require some form of photo ID to get one, according to the report from the Crime Prevention Research Center shared with Secrets.
“These countries have learned the hard way about what happens when mail-in ballots aren’t secured. They have also discovered how hard it is to detect vote buying when both those buying and selling the votes have an incentive to hide the exchange,” said author John R. Lott, the center’s president.
While politicians in the United States have been debating the pros and cons of mail-in voting due to concerns of spreading COVID-19 at the polls and new reports of postal service and vote counting issues, Lott, whose center is known for its gun research, built a voting database of the European Union and the larger Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries.
Those countries, said Lott, are typically held up by Democrats as a model to follow.
“Liberals and progressives often try to model the U.S. on Western European countries in many ways, but you never hear them arguing that we should adopt their voting rules. There is a reason for that. Banning mail-in voting or requiring people to use photo IDs to obtain a mail-in ballot is quite common in developed countries, especially in Europe,” he said in the report.
The report, titled Why Do Most Countries Ban Mail-in Ballots? They Have Seen Massive Vote Fraud Problems, listed the rules for voting and widespread cases of fraud and vote buying. His report also listed notable cases of fraud in U.S. voting.
He ended up calling mail-in voting a “throwback to the dark old days of vote-buying and fraud. Like most of the rest of the world, Americans deserve a more trustworthy system.”
President Trump has been critical of mail-in voting, though his campaign has endorsed it in some states such as Florida.
He has warned that it can be manipulated, a charge that has prompted Democrats eager for it to call the president delusional.
But Lott said the president is correct and listed nearly 10 cases of mail-in voting fraud and vote buying to support his case.
He referenced cases of deceased voters receiving mail-in ballots, including 458,000 in California. In another, he cited a report that 83 mail-in ballots went to a single, two-bedroom apartment. And in another, he cited reports of fraud in Pennsylvania mail-in voting that resulted in giving Democrats control of the state Senate in 1994.
In overseas cases, he cited a case of mail-in voting fraud in 2005 that led to the election of six officials in Birmingham, England, and the history of fraud in Mexico.
“If concern about vote fraud with mail-in ballots is delusional, it is a delusion that is shared by most of the world. Even the countries that allow mail-in ballots have protections, such as government-issued photo IDs. But Americans are constantly assured even this step is completely unnecessary. Without basic precautions, our elections are on course to become the laughing stock of the developed world,” Lott concluded.
Mexico and India have voter ID
Gosh, we wouldn’t want all the other countries to be laughing at us!
All European countries have national ID and mandates that you have to show it at the polling stations to be allowed to vote.
I thought the left loved Europe and wanted to emulate them in every way possible.
Except when it doesn’t suit their agenda.
This election is going to be a hot mess
“This election is going to be a hot mess”
And thats what they want. They’d like nothing more than it to be an unsettled election by the time the sitting POTUS and VP have to vacate the Whitehouse. You know what that means right? The speaker of the house is interim POTUS. Think about that scenario for a minute.
Same thing in Canada, and we know how over the moon for Justin someone like Alyssa Milano is.
i’d rather chew glass
Somebody ought to ask Jimmy Carter what he thinks of mail-in voting. He is supposed to be a great monitor for voting.
We have allowed the left, cheered on by the agitprop media, to throw the country into chaos the past few months. If we allow them to throw our election into complete chaos with massive mail-in ballots cast all about the country haphazardly we should not be surprised that November is the worst month of this horrible year.
It will be awful.
No photo IDs no voting keep it simple.
For later
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