Zitat 1 in 5 Mail-In Ballots Rejected as Fraudulent in New Jersey Election By Matt Palumbo, Bongino, June 26, 2020
New Jersey has given it a try, and it has amounted to a larger failure than any critic of the practice could’ve ever imagined. According to Mark Hemingway at RealClearPolitics:
Zitat Following accusations of widespread fraud, voter intimidation, and ballot theft in the May 12 municipal elections in Paterson, N.J., state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal (pictured) announced Thursday he is charging four men with voter fraud – including the vice president of the City Council and a candidate for that body.
With races still undecided, control of the council hangs in the balance. Paterson is New Jersey’s third largest city and the election will decide the fate of a municipal budget in excess of $300 million, in addition to hundreds of millions more in education spending and state aid.
In the City Council election, 16,747 vote-by-mail ballots were received, but only 13,557 votes were counted. More than 3,190 votes, 19% of the total ballots cast, were disqualified by the board of elections. Due to the pandemic, Paterson’s election was done through vote-by-mail. Community organizations, such as the city’s NAACP chapter, are calling for the entire election to be invalidated.
This comes after it was reported that many Republican voters in one New Jersey township received ballots listing only Democrat candidates in the mail.
Zitat Between 500 and 700 Republicans received the wrong ballots out of about 2,400 enrolled Republicans in Bernardsville. Their choices were all Democrats.
The error was laid at the door of the printing company that sent out the ballots, but the government still had a role in the mixup.
It sure is interesting how these “errors” only ever seem to help Democrats.
A recent poll from Just the News found that two-thirds of Americans believe that vote-by-mail would increase voter fraud, with more Democrats agreeing (48%) than disagreeing (45%). Among the Democrats in power pushing mail-in voting, I assume 100% are in agreement that it’ll increase voter fraud.
Barr: An Election Conducted Primarily by Mail Can’t Be Secure Ian Hanchett 26 Jun 2020
During a portion of an interview with NPR released on Friday, Attorney General William Barr said he isn’t concerned about having mail-in ballots for a “limited” amount of people who can’t vote in person, but he is concerned about “a comprehensive rule where all the ballots are essentially mail-in,” and doesn’t believe an election that is mainly conducted by mail can be secure.
Barr said, [relevant exchange begins around 6:15] “I think there’s a range of concerns about mail-in ballots. And let me just clarify here, I’m not talking about a mail-in ballot for a limited number of cases where somebody is going to be traveling around the world, and the way that the state has provided for that is, you mail in your ballot. I’m talking about a comprehensive rule where all the ballots are essentially mail-in, and there’s so many occasions for fraud there that cannot be policed.”
He later added, “I have specific reason to believe that there are a number of foreign countries that do want to sow discord in the United States by undermining confidence in the results of the election. And I think if we do adopt programs of mail-in, that will be an area which they will exploit.”
Host Steve Inskeep asked, “Do you believe that an election conducted mainly by mail can be secure?”