Jay Valentine makes a strong case that ballots should not be mailed out to addresses for which mail cannot be delivered (vacant lots), at which voters cannot reside (commercial or industrial addresses), or where mail cannot be accurately delivered (apartment or dorm buildings with no apartment number or dorm room number.) He recommends purifying voter rolls so that ballots will not be mailed out to addresses where mail cannot be delivered or voters cannot live. This can be done by compiling the Undeliverable Ballot Database (UBD).
To support his argument, Valentine quotes a message from a retired mailman who said that he saw hundreds, or even thousands, of returned ballots put in a basket at the post office for “returned/undeliverable mail” until someone came by and picked them up. It is important to note that these mailed-out ballots are “live ammunition” that can be voted by anyone who picks them up and votes the way they want to.
Some states (such as Texas) require that the voter include parts of a social security number or driver’s license number in the returned ballot. However, this is certainly not a foolproof method, as the requested data is accessible via commercial databases, and fraudsters can find and supply it. This is also a good reason to keep voter signatures away from public view because that, too, makes it too easy for fraudsters. It is a constant battle of defense versus offense in the voter fraud arena.
Other states have no limitations. Michigan has opened the floodgates to fraudulent voting. The GOP will be at a severe disadvantage in that state due to the changes in the voting laws that have been enacted.