Often, the party of the potential voter is known so envelopes can be marked and the "wrong" ones can somehow become "lost". One couple where one them was a Rep and the other a Dem received envelopes in which to return the ballots. One was prepaid and one was not. Guess which?
There is no connection between the envelope and the ballot. You sign the envelope but once separated that relationship can no longer be checked. How easy would it be to smuggle in some pre-filled ballots? Some places counted mail-in ballots that did not have folds in them so they were never in an envelope.
Time. If you allow a couple of weeks to return the ballots then that gives you two weeks to plot how you are going to rig the election.
Extra voters can be added to the list and mail-in ballots can be returned from those fictional people. They can be dumped into the drop boxes. The database of people can be amended just before the election to add people and changed right back after election day. Once out of the envelope no-one knows where they came from.
There are various issues with mail-in voting.
Often, the party of the potential voter is known so envelopes can be marked and the "wrong" ones can somehow become "lost". One couple where one them was a Rep and the other a Dem received envelopes in which to return the ballots. One was prepaid and one was not. Guess which?
There is no connection between the envelope and the ballot. You sign the envelope but once separated that relationship can no longer be checked. How easy would it be to smuggle in some pre-filled ballots? Some places counted mail-in ballots that did not have folds in them so they were never in an envelope.
Time. If you allow a couple of weeks to return the ballots then that gives you two weeks to plot how you are going to rig the election.
Extra voters can be added to the list and mail-in ballots can be returned from those fictional people. They can be dumped into the drop boxes. The database of people can be amended just before the election to add people and changed right back after election day. Once out of the envelope no-one knows where they came from.
Sometimes it is not clear where the ballots were delivered to. Federal Data: 16.4M Mail-In Ballots Went Missing in 2016, 2018 Elections
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