AP: How are mail-in and absentee ballots verified?

The Associated Press ^ | October 2022 | By ALI SWENSON (D-AP)

[GaryCrow]

There is a big difference between absentee ballots and mail-in ballots. When I was in the military I was a TN resident and usually voted absentee. I had to request the ballot a couple of months in advance and when I returned it I had to get it notarized. The notary verified who I was before notarizing it by checking my ID before I sealed the envelope. That system is as as secure as it can be. Mail in ballots, depending upon the state, don't include those safeguards. Mail in ballots many times don't have to be requested, they're just sent out automatically. I'm sure many of these ballots go to places where the voter doesn't live anymore or the voter is long dead. The voter rolls are poorly maintained at most places with many long dead voters still listed. There's no verification that the intended recipient got the ballot and it's a simple matter for someone intent on election fraud to get them into their hands and fraudulently vote for the democrat candidate. There's usually no notarization requirement to verify identity, and signature verifications are a joke. No democrat poll worker is going to kick out a ballot if the signatures don't match, they're not going to buck the fraud, they're part of it.

Essentially absentee ballots done correctly are pretty secure, but the mail-in balloting process that has come about in recent years has been designed to skirt all those safeguards. It's a free for all with mail-in ballots and the claims by the media of low fraud rates are bogus. They've removed all mechanisms to discover the fraud by design because they want to make it easy to hide. It's like throwing a bag over your security camera and the stating unequivocally that no one has come on to your porch. You don't know that because you shut down the means of monitoring it.

[hopefullamerican]

I am sorry Bullish that I questioned your narrative. You obviously know what is going to happen in November so given that fact I will not bother to vote since you already know my vote will be stolen.

[lepton]

A lot of hidden caveats, among some absurd ‘how could you know?’ statements.