Mail-in voting

If I can walk into Home Depot, Walmart, CVS, Lowes, Target and other stores, why can’t I go to my polling place and vote using a machine. I have to show an ID, my name and address has to match the log book, and I can vote. The machine can be wiped down in about 20 seconds. No fraud there. We already had 4 Democrats arrested in North Jersey for voter fraud and also in Philadelphia and it’s rampant across the country. People are voting more than once.

— A reader

Full disclosure, this email was MUCH longer, but chock full of disinformation, so I thought we could just discuss this portion that has some things we can discuss. No one is calling to replace in-person voting with mail-in, but to make sure both options are available and easily accessible. Several states already have permanent mail-in options that have proven reliable and safe. And your baseless claim that fraud is “rampant” is just false. Statistics show that voter fraud has happened, but is not a frequent occurrence and has happened with machines, paper ballots, computers, and at all ends of the political spectrum.

There is no 100% secure voting method, but there is also not a lot of occurrences of fraud happening, and even fewer instances of it actually impacting election results. Citing an article on “patriotedition.com” is not going to convince anyone otherwise. At least find a reputable source that doesn’t just steal content from other right-wing websites.

— Ed Note