Ballot fraud tied to mail-in voting

Epoch Times:

Tens of millions of mail-in ballots went missing between 2012 and 2018, according to federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC) reports.

While there’s no evidence any of the 28.3 million unaccounted for ballots were used fraudulently, their sheer volume gives weight to concerns about election integrity, particularly as calls mount for more widespread use of vote-by-mail options amid the pandemic.

The drive to expand mail balloting options during the outbreak has emerged as the centerpiece of a growing political fight ahead of November’s election. President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers have challenged the idea of expanding vote-by-mail, arguing it is vulnerable to fraud. Democrats, and voting rights groups, say it is a way to protect voters from the deadly CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus. They say a failure to guarantee that option amid a pandemic will disenfranchise millions of Americans.

“Putting the election in the hands of the United States Postal Service would be a catastrophe,” argues J. Christian Adams, President of the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), which reviewed EAC reports from the past four general elections and compiled them into a single review (pdf).

“Over the recent decade, there were 28 million missing and misdirected ballots,” Adams said, adding, “These represent 28 million opportunities for someone to cheat.”

Of all types of voter fraud, absentee ballot fraud is the most common, according to an investigative report project by Arizona State University. Still, the project found that, since the turn of the century, “while fraud has occurred, the number of cases is infinitesimal.”

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, has long raised the alarm about the dangers of mail-in ballot fraud.

“Absentee ballots are the tools of choice of election fraudsters because they are voted outside the supervision of election officials, making it easier to steal, forge, or alter them, as well as to intimidate voters,” wrote Heritage Foundation Senior Legal Fellow Hans A. von Spakovsky, in an op-ed.
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Meanwhile, concerns about fraud in mail ballots were significant enough that a 2008 report by the CalTech/MIT Voting Technology Project (pdf) recommended that states “restrict or abolish on-demand absentee voting in favor of in-person early voting.”
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When combined with ballot harvesting they are an invitation to cheat.  Neither should ever be allowed.  The only exception should be for servicemen and women overseas.  Too often, Democrats have made it difficult for those in the service to vote while in a war zone.