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> Suppose someone obtains and submits a bunch of mail in ballots. Ballots of people who don't normally vote etc. How would they even get caught? For a start in
by klipt 6y ago
> Suppose someone obtains and submits a bunch of mail in ballots. Ballots of people who don't normally vote etc. How would they even get caught?
For a start in California mail in ballots have to be signed and the signature has to match the registered voter's signature on file.
So you're assuming someone can steal a bunch of registered voters' ballots and fake their signatures.
- tatersolid 6y agoNobody examines anything but a tiny sample of the signatures unless there is a recount.
- dragonwriter 6y agoWere there a persistent, large-scale problem, a small sample over many elections would detect it, but actually the process is that each signature is matched before the inner ballot envelope is moved forward to be counted.
- Wistar 6y agoHere in WA state, my daughter kept changing her signature and had to verify her mail-in ballot for several elections.