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How to Steal an Election: Mail-In Ballots

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🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

What’s the difference between absentee balloting and universal mail-in balloting? The latter might sound like a great idea, but is it really? Eric Eggers of the Government Accountability Institute answers this vitally important question.

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0:00.0

Is there a problem with universal male invalidating?

0:03.0

Sounds simple enough.

0:04.8

You fill out a ballot, stick it in the mail,

0:07.3

somebody counts it on election day.

0:09.6

In fact, we already do that with absentee ballots, right?

0:13.2

So why would universal male invalidating be any different?

0:16.6

Well, the biggest difference is that with absentee ballots,

0:20.2

the voter specifically asks for a ballot.

0:23.1

With universal male invalidating,

0:25.3

ballots are mailed out and mass.

0:28.2

Millions of people who would normally go to the polls

0:30.8

vote by mail instead.

0:32.8

No national election has ever been conducted this way.

0:36.4

And there are very good reasons to be concerned

0:38.7

that one ever should.

0:40.4

Reason number one, bureaucratic incompetence.

0:44.0

I don't think I have to sell you on the idea

0:45.9

that when the government bureaucracy takes on a big new project

0:48.8

with little preparation, the results aren't pretty.

0:52.2

We've seen those results as it relates

0:54.0

to mail-in-balloting already.

0:56.2

Wisconsin was one of the first states

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