From https://thecitizen.com/2020/11/15/ge...00-vote-surge/ Originally Posted by gnadflyDue to my age I had the opportunity, which I rejected, of requesting and mailing in my ballot. IF I had mailed in my ballot, it would be received and checked in the following way:
To verify the signature, county election officials will look at the signature with the ballot and compare it to the signature on the voter's mail-in registration form, or any signature the voter made within the past six years on file with the county clerk or voter registrar.
To ensure the county is doing the best job analyzing the signatures, Debeauvoir said they have two people look at each signature comparison. If the two people agree, it is counted. If they disagree, a third person gets called in, the judge for the ballot, who makes the final decision.
The review board is appropriately split between 40 to 50 Democrats, Republicans, Greens and Libertarians in order to have a multi-party review, Debeauvoir said.
However, she said inconsistent signatures do not happen often. Instead, issues typically arise when voters forget to sign their ballot altogether.
https://www.kvue.com/article/news/po...9-400a1af70321
That is a process that seems rather thorough. I can only go by studies that have been done on mail-in voting as to whether or not it is open to major fraud. The answer seems to be no. I would bet that every state has a similar process.
But the rate of voting fraud overall in the US is less than 0.0009%, according to a 2017 study by the Brennan Center for Justice.
And Federal Election Commission head Ellen Weintraub has said: "There's simply no basis for the conspiracy theory that voting by mail causes fraud."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53353404
Voting by mail is not new in the United States -- nearly 1 in 4 voters cast 2016 presidential ballots that way. Routine methods and the decentralized nature of U.S. elections make it very hard to interfere with mailed ballots, experts say.
While mail balloting has its drawbacks, it can help minimize the long lines, faulty voting machines and COVID-19-induced staffing shortages that have plagued some elections this year.
The conservative Heritage Foundation, which has warned of the risks of mail voting, found 14 cases of attempted mail fraud out of roughly 15.5 million ballots cast in Oregon since that state started conducting elections by mail in 1998.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN2482SA
And this is from an article published on September 22, 2020.
Last June, the Transition Integrity Project, a group of academics, journalists, experts and former public servants, conducted several simulations. Their conclusion was that only a landslide for Joe Biden would result in a relatively orderly transfer of power. All other scenarios involved a major political crisis and potentially street violence. So while Trump points at mail-in ballots as a potential source of fraud, Biden and Democratic officials at the national, state and county levels are doing everything they can to ensure that every mailed ballot counts.
https://theconversation.com/fact-che...e-fraud-146230
I find that to be rather prophetic. The hardcore Trump supporters will never conclude that Biden won a fair election. It will always be stolen.
Originally Posted by Tsmokies
