Mail-in Voting: Infecting Election Integrity
Vote fraud and manipulating elections are international phenomena. As recently as May 2018, the world learned of the purported reelection of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who says he won by nearly a three-to-one margin over his closest competitor, even as 10 percent of the country has fled abroad because of government-caused hyperinflation, starvation, and murders. There is no real healthcare to speak of in that country — outside of government or the black market — and fraud and graft are the overriding goals of government officials. The election was so obviously staged that countries around the world denounced it and deemed Maduro an illegitimate president and a dictator.
That election made world news, but other, less-known cases of fraudulent elections happen all of the time. In the United States, vote fraud has historically been kept to a minimum by safeguards built into the system: voting in precincts, an election paper trail showing how each ballot was cast to check vote totals, election monitors provided from multiple parties to prevent cheating, voter ID requirements, and more. Now, however, the United States is on the cusp of literally throwing all the safeguards out the window and declaring vote fraud OK — all in the name of equality and fairness. This movement is mainly being pushed by Democrats, and it has gained momentum with the coronavirus shutdowns.
If efforts to institute mail-in voting, early in-person voting, and more are not stopped in their tracks, we may never again have unrigged elections. At the very least, we could never have confidence again that elections are secure.
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