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Maybe the aren't: https://fox8.com/news/mail-carrier-pleads-guilty-to-altering-absentee-ballot-requests-switching-party-affiliations/ https://fox8.com/news/mail

• boomboomsubban 6y ago
  "Bored mailman convicted for altering 8 ballot request forms" suggests that they are secure. Even if he wasn't caught, there should have been time for the ballots to be replaced.
  • edoceo 6y ago
    I did say maybe -- I think vote-by-mail is great and all the example are -- but there this very small chance which we should be vigilant about. And eight disrupted votes is much better than thousands of disenfranchised voters. There is also this: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/04/24/28_million_mail-in_ballots_went_missing_in_last_four_elections_143033.html https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/04/24/28_mil...
    • boomboomsubban 6y ago
      >There is also this Those claims have been shown to be largely incorrect, with even the foundation retracting the article. An unreturned ballot does not mean fraud, the registered voter may have chosen to vote in person or not vote in that election. Several states send ballots to every registered voter, and that's how the number reached 28 million. https://www.propublica.org/article/a-conservative-legal-group-significantly-miscalculated-data-in-a-report-on-mail-in-voting https://www.propublica.org/article/a-conservative-legal-grou...