In 2020, less than one-third of ballots were cast at a polling place on Election Day, while 43 percent of voters used a mailed ballot (the rest voted early in a government location).
The pandemic created many questionable voting regulations in states that encouraged mail-in voting with few safeguards.
What is the outlook for this year as we head down the election-day stretch?
In Pennsylvania, the largest swing state, the state Supreme Court has properly declined to hear a lawsuit that sought to overturn a rule that disqualifies a mail-in ballot if the envelope is missing the date or has the incorrect date listed. In 2020, several blue counties counted ballots that came in after Election Day without a postmark.
In Michigan, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has lost a pair of lawsuits and is being forced to rewrite the flimsy rules on handling mail-in ballots. Local election clerks must now verify the voter’s signature on mail-in ballot envelopes. A judge has also ordered that election workers “must” – not “should” – verify that the number on the ballot matches the number on the ballot envelope.
In 2021, the Nevada legislature passed a permanent law to automatically mail a ballot to every active registered voter. This has created a nightmare of potential fraud. In the 2022 midterms, more than 95,000 mail ballots statewide were undeliverable. The state’s key U.S. Senate race was decided by less than 8,000 votes.
This year, the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) has photographed hundreds of commercial addresses listed as residences on the Nevada voter roll. Some of these addresses included a Sonic Drive-In, the Las Vegas Airport, a 7-Eleven gas station, vacant lots, and the Larry Flynt Hustler Club. They submitted the evidence to Las Vegas election officials, but nothing was done. Finally, a lawsuit forced the officials to correct the voter rolls.
Other major problems remain. Nevada state law allows ballots to be counted if they are received up to four business days PAST Election Day. Many other states have similar laws. Christian Adams, the president of PILF, says “Mass vote-by-mail is the driving factor behind why Americans will likely go to bed on election night not knowing if the next president is Donald Trump or Kamala Harris.”
Thanks to the lobbying bullying of the left we now have a system that has turned “Election Day” into “Election Month,” with all the confusion and loss of perceived legitimacy in the results that system is likely to create.
