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]]>Mail-in voting across the country has led to a series of anomalous results in recent weeks – including delayed, misplaced and missing ballots, a review by Fox News has found.
As the issues surfaced, Fox News obtained a copy of a recent U.S. Postal Service (USPS) memo sent to employees detailing budget-related cutbacks. Mark Dimondstein, the president of the America Postal Workers Union, told Fox News that the changes are significantly slowing down mail delivery, and that he is concerned about the impact it will have on mail-in ballots in November.
“Anytime the mail slows down, it’s harder for the postal workers to serve the customers, whether it’s a mail ballot or anything else,” Dimondstein said. “So, again, we’re just absolutely opposed to any effort to slow down mail, to delay mail. And that includes, obviously, for the ballots as well.”
In the memo, the USPS says mail carriers may have to leave mail behind at distribution centers in order to make it on time to their delivery routes.
“One aspect of these changes that may be difficult for employees is that – temporarily – we may see mail left behind or mail on the workroom floor or docks (in P&DCs), which is not typical,” the memo reads.
In this May 5, 2020, file photo, Jordan Smellie moves absentee ballots to be counted at City Hall in Garden City, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
The memo continues: “We will address root causes of these delays and adjust the very next day. Any mail left behind must be properly reported, and employees should ensure this action is taken with integrity and accuracy. This is a critical time for us, when decisive, quick and meaningful action is needed.”
USPS assured Fox News in a statement that mail-in ballots wouldn’t be compromised: “The Postal Service is committed to delivering election mail in a timely manner … the Postal Service’s financial condition is not going to impact our ability to process and deliver election and political mail,” the statement read.
However, USPS has experienced rising delays during the coronavirus pandemic, and numerous sources tell Fox News that the Chicago USPS international processing center suffers from mailing delays of several months. A test package sent by Fox News that was routed through the Chicago processing center has been held up for five weeks and counting. In a statement, the USPS inspector general said more information may be forthcoming in September; the USPS itself offered no explanation.
Republicans have cautioned that the risks are clear. Last week, the GOP notched a major win in a Florida election integrity dispute, and the party says its well-funded efforts are ongoing.
GOP DEFEATS TAXPAYER-FUNDED MAIL-IN BALLOTS IN FLORIDA
“States that abruptly transitioned to a vote-by-mail system saw elections plagued by fraud and infrastructure and logistical nightmares, which should be a clear and ominous warning ahead of November,” RNC national press secretary Mandi Merritt told Fox News. “Democrats’ plot to rapidly implement nationwide vote by mail is a recipe for disaster, disenfranchisement and massive dysfunction in our elections.”
Democrats counter that security concerns are overblown and that enhanced ballot access is a worthy tradeoff in any event. “Election officials spend a great deal of our time building in security measures,” Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman, a Republican, told NPR last month. “The idea that people could print millions of ballots either within the country or external to the country, just on its face, is not going to pass muster with an election official.”
The following is a state-by-state rundown of major isues that have been detected with mail-in balloting this year alone.
New Jersey: ‘Massive computer issues, genuine scandal’
The New Jersey Globe reported in June that “massive computer issues and U.S. Postal Service delays” meant that thousands of residents wouldn’t receive their ballots until after the state’s July 7 primary.
The paper found that the Statewide Voter Registration System (SVRS) was “crashing several times a day for the last few days, leaving local election officials without the ability to process thousands of vote-by-mail ballots just 11 days before the New Jersey primary election.”
The series of problems led Division of Elections director Bob Giles to tell election officials to “stop processing ballot requests because of network overloads,” according to the Globe.
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And, in May, experts said a “genuine absentee ballot fraud scandal” was underway following the May 12 New Jersey city council election. Thousands of ballots were disqualified because signatures on the ballots didn’t match with those on file – and, perhaps more concerning, records showed that several thousand mail-in ballots were received but not counted.
“Videos are surfacing online of a single voter carrying numerous ballots,” read one NBC report. “Postal workers were seen leaving some ballots sitting out in building lobbies.”
The NBC report noted that Ramona Javier complained that she was recorded as voting, when in fact she had not.
“We did not receive vote-by-mail ballots and thus we did not vote,” she told NBC, which then showed her an official list of people who had voted on her block – a list that contained her name.
“This is corruption. This is fraud,” Javier said, adding that “there are eight relatives and immediate neighbors she knows of listed as having voted – but who insist they never even received ballots, including one relative who she says has been in Florida for weeks.”
Election law experts sounded the alarm, and Paterson Mayor Andre Sayegh warned that so-called “ballot stuffing” may have occurred.
“This is corruption. This is fraud.”
— Ramona Javier, who voted whether she wanted to or not
“There is a genuine absentee ballot fraud scandal going on in Paterson,” election law expert and University of California-Irvine School of Law professor Rick Hasen said. Hasen wrote: “When someone tries an absentee ballot scheme like this clumsy attempt in Paterson, it is hard to hide. People get caught.”
RealClearInvestigation’s Mark Hemingway reported in June that “following accusations of widespread fraud, voter intimidation and ballot theft in the May 12 municipal elections in Paterson, N.J., state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced Thursday he is charging four men with voter fraud – including the vice president of the City Council and a candidate for that body.”
More than 3,190 votes, constituting 19 percent of the total ballots cast, were “disqualified by the board of elections,” Hemingway noted.
West Virginia: Postman admits altering ballots
Earlier this month, the Justice Department announced that Thomas Cooper, a mail carrier in Pendleton County, admitted to election fraud.
Cooper “held a U.S. Postal Service contract to deliver mail in Pendleton County,” the DOJ said. “In April 2020, the clerk of Pendleton County received ‘2020 Primary Election COVID-19 Mail-In Absentee Request’ forms from eight voters on which the voter’s party-ballot request appeared to have been altered.”
After the clerk reported the finding to the West Virginia secretary of state’s office, an investigation “found five ballot requests that had been altered from ‘Democrat’ to ‘Republican,'” the DOJ said. “On three other requests, the party wasn’t changed, but the request had been altered.”
A United States Post Office mail truck (USPS) parked in Miami, Florida
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Recent research from Stanford University indicates that mail-in balloting may have neutral partisan effect, and that overall vote shares wouldn’t be significantly different.
“Our paper has a clear takeaway: Claims that vote-by-mail fundamentally advantages one party over the other appear overblown,” researchers said. However, deliberate fraud in key districts could alter their conclusions.
California: 100K ballots rejected
More than 100,000 mail-in ballots were rejected by California election officials during the March presidential primary, according to data obtained by The Associated Press in July, highlighting a glaring gap in the state’s effort to ensure every vote is counted.
The California secretary of state’s election data showed 102,428 mail-in ballots were disqualified in the state’s 58 counties, about 1.5 percent of the nearly 7 million mail-in ballots returned. That percentage is the highest in a primary since 2014, and the overall number is the highest in a statewide election since 2010.
Two years ago, the national average of rejected mail ballots in the general election was about 1.4 percent and in the 2016 presidential election year it was 1 percent, according to a U.S. Election Assistance Commission study.
The most common problem, by far, in California was missing the deadline for the ballot to be mailed and arrive. To count in the election, ballots must be postmarked on or before Election Day and received within three days afterward. Statewide, 70,330 ballots missed those marks.
An additional 27,525 either didn’t have a signature, or the signature didn’t match the one on record for the voter.
Kim Alexander, president of the nonpartisan California Voter Foundation that seeks to improve elections, called the uncounted figure discouraging.
“The only thing worse than people not voting is people attempting to vote and having their ballot uncounted,” she said. The tally of nullified votes “can make a difference in a close contest.”
The data didn’t break down the uncounted ballots by party registration. While the overall number was large in March, if it’s the same in November it’s unlikely to affect the presidential race – Trump lost to Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016 by 4.3 million votes.
But there are expected to be at least several tightly contested U.S. House races where relatively few votes could tip the balance. In 2018, Democrat TJ Cox upset Republican David Valadao by less than 1,000 votes in a Central Valley district. They have a rematch in November.
New York: ‘Scattered problems’
The New York Times reported in June that systemic issues forced many voters to show up at polling places because they simply never received mail-in ballots.
“With many people reluctant to vote in person, or unable to because they have relocated, roughly 765,000 absentee ballots were distributed in the city, according to data released by the New York City Board of Elections,” the paper reported. “Yet many people interviewed at polling stations said they were forced to vote in person because they never received absentee ballots that they had requested.”
Indeed, the “overwhelming majority of calls received through the state attorney general’s voting hotline leading up to Tuesday’s primary were from voters who applied for an absentee ballot but had not received it,” the paper observed. “More than three weeks after the New York primaries, election officials have not yet counted an untold number of mail-in absentee ballots, leaving numerous closely watched races unresolved, including two key Democratic congressional contests. The absentee ballot count — greatly inflated this year after the state expanded the vote-by-mail option because of the coronavirus pandemic — has been painstakingly slow, and hard to track, with no running account of the vote totals available.”
The president’s view
In May, Twitter slapped a warning label on one of President Trump’s tweets for the first time, cautioning readers that despite the president’s claims, “fact-checkers” say there is “no evidence” that expanded, nationwide mail-in voting would increase fraud risks – and that “experts say mail-in ballots are very rarely linked to voter fraud.”
Twitter’s new warning label was issued even though a Twitter spokesperson acknowledged to Fox News that Trump’s tweet had not broken any of the platform’s rules, and even though several experts have called mail-in balloting an invitation to widespread fraud.
“Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud,” read the conclusion of a bipartisan 2005 report authored by the Commission on Federal Election Reform, which was chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker.
“Twitter ‘fact-checkers’ really suck,” wrote Dan Bongino, a Fox News contributor. He linked to a 2012 article in The New York Times headlined, “Error and Fraud at Issue as Absentee Voting Rises.” The article states that “votes cast by mail are less likely to be counted, more likely to be compromised and more likely to be contested than those cast in a voting booth, statistics show.”
Separately, GOP chairwoman Ronna McDaniel observed that Alabama’s secretary of state, John Merrill, told CNN earlier in the day that five of the six voter fraud convictions during his tenure related to absentee balloting.
Fox News has reported that Twitter’s “Head of Site Integrity” Yoel Roth is in charge of fact-checking efforts – and that he has previously referred to Trump and his team as “ACTUAL NAZIS,” mocked Trump supporters by saying that “we fly over those states that voted for a racist tangerine for a reason,” and called Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., a “personality-free bag of farts.”
Fox News’ Hillary Vaughn and Alex Nerska and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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]]>All-mail elections have been going on for years in some states, and from the liberal bastions of Oregon and Washington to rock-red conservative Utah, the voters who use it love it.
President Trump is not a fan, however, calling it a recipe for fraud.
He’s mounting an all-out assault in person, on Twitter and in the nation’s courts to keep states from expanding mail-in voting options during this year’s elections.
Mr. Trump said Tuesday that California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent order to expand mail-in voting would turn the country into “a joke” and could help create a “rigged system.”
“You can’t do the mail-in ballots because you’re going to have tremendous fraud,” Mr. Trump said at the White House. “And remember what I said, they’ll be grabbing [ballots] from mailboxes, they’ll even be printing them. They’ll use the same paper, the same machines, and they’ll be printing ballots illegally and they’ll be sending them in by the hundreds of thousands and nobody’s going to know the difference.”
With his name on the ballot, Mr. Trump has a deeply personal stake in the fight.
Academics with less skin in the game say some of his fears about fraud are valid, though overwrought. And they generally dismiss his suspicion that the more people vote by mail, the worse Republicans do.
Most studies show no clear partisan advantage in states that allow all or mostly-mail elections.
Five states — Oregon, Washington, Utah, Colorado and Hawaii — send ballots to every voter, though that doesn’t mean they all return them through the mail. Coloradans, for example, can drop their ballots off at designated locations as long as they’re in before 7 p.m. on Election Day.
In 2016, 73% of Coloradans dropped their ballots off in person, as did 59% of voters in Oregon and 65% in Washington, according to the Election Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Voters in the five states are thrilled with the system, according to polling by YouGov in March. Approval ranges from 77% in Oregon to 87% in Hawaii.
Phil Keisling, who was secretary of state when Oregon became the first to adopt all-mail voting in the 1990s, said he was skeptical at first but has been converted.
“I liked the traditions: The crunch of the autumn leaves, the crisp blue sky, saying hello to my neighbors, so I understand what people are not sure about,” Mr. Keisling said. “Like that piece of great Western literature, Dr. Seuss’ ‘Green Eggs and Ham,’ when voters have the chance to actually try it, they realize they actually like it.”
Mr. Keisling said Oregon has not had major fraud incidents.
Thirty other states allow no-excuse-needed absentee voting, which means any voter can vote by mail. The other states require an approved excuse — though, in some, such as Virginia, the governor has said fear of coronavirus is a valid excuse, effectively turning next month’s primaries into no-excuse absentee voting.
The risk, according to the five vote-by-mail states, is that others are rushing into all-mail elections without doing the groundwork. Elections officials in those states have been fielding calls from other states, and their answer is to be aware.
Voter rolls must be kept scrupulously clean so ballots only go to current addresses for valid voters. Sometimes new equipment is needed to count votes, and signature cards need to be kept up-to-date.
MIT’s Election Lab says that while fraud is rare, it “seems to be more frequent” with mailed ballots than in-person voting.
On Tuesday, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced criminal fraud charges against a rural mail carrier accused of altering absentee ballots from Democrat to Republican.
No two states’ all-mail elections are conducted the same, nor have they yielded comparable results clearly favoring any particular party or political philosophy.
Colorado overhauled its elections system in 2013, but voter behavior did not immediately change as a result. Two-thirds of voters in the 2014 general election returned their votes in person, according to a Pew Charitable Trusts’ analysis.
By 2018, though, the state saw its highest-ever turnout for a midterm congressional election, trailing only Minnesota among the 50 states, according to a report from Nonprofit VOTE and the U.S. Elections Project.
Hawaii ranked last in turnout in 2018, before it adopted all-mail voting. The 2020 general election will be the first major test for the state.
Hawaii’s Office of Elections has told voters to expect a ballot packet to arrive in the mail about 18 days before the summer primary and the fall general election. Like Coloradans, they can mail it back or drop it off in person.
Hawaii relies heavily on signatures and barcodes to verify a voter’s identity, whereas first-time voters in Colorado may need to provide a copy of their identification alongside their signature to have their vote count.
The barcode appears on the envelope that contains Hawaiians’ “ballot secrecy sleeve” and the individual ballots, which are used to guard against voter fraud.
Vote-by-mail in that manner provides several disadvantages and advantages. The National Conference of State Legislatures lists “security” as a possible disadvantage because family members or others may coerce voters, away from the scrutiny of poll watchers. States deploying vote-by-mail for the upcoming elections have created websites where voters can track their ballot to ensure it is received and counted.
One advantage is the potential cost savings. The logistics of vote-by-mail saved Coloradans more than $6 in taxpayer dollars spent per vote cast by reducing costs 40% across five election-administration categories, according to a Pew Charitable Trusts’ analysis.
Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat who is a major proponent of the state’s system, tried to get Congress to add $2 billion for state election assistance in the coronavirus stimulus package. In the end, the bill included $400 million for election security, which does include expanding vote-by-mail.
“Look, America could be faced with a choice this fall of either Americans being able to vote, which means vote-by-mail, or not voting at all,” Mr. Wyden said on a call with reporters in March. “And our case to [Republicans] is that’s not even a close call.”
Mr. Trump, though, is determined to block as much of mail voting as possible.
At one point he threatened to withhold federal money from Michigan if that state pursued mail-in voting. He inaccurately said the state had sent all voters ballots, but the secretary of state sent ballot applications, which can be returned to request a ballot.
The Republican National Committee this week announced it was suing Mr. Newsom to try to block the California governor’s executive order expanding mail-in voting for the state in November.
“The United States cannot have all Mail In Ballots,” the president said on Twitter over the weekend. “It will be the greatest Rigged Election in history. People grab them from mailboxes, print thousands of forgeries and “force” people to sign. Also, forge names.”
Mr. Trump said “some absentee OK, when necessary” — he voted absentee in Florida’s primary this year. But he criticized politicians he said were “trying to use” the coronavirus to advance their political goals.
Twitter attached a label to Mr. Trump’s Tuesday tweets about voter fraud, directing viewers to “Get the facts about mail-in ballots” and redirecting to a Twitter page that says the president made false claims.
Whatever happens this year, Mr. Trump is likely fighting a losing battle in the long run as Americans embrace the mail option.
MIT’s Election Lab says that in 1992, more than 90% of voters cast ballots on Election Day. By 2016, it was just 60%, with the other 40% split about evenly between in-person early voting and mailed-in ballots.
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]]>COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – The first major test of an almost completely vote-by-mail election during a pandemic is unfolding Tuesday in Ohio, offering lessons to other states about how to conduct one of the most basic acts of democracy amid a health crisis.
The process hasn’t been smooth as state officials have navigated election laws and the need to protect citizens and poll workers from the coronavirus. Ohio’s in-person primary was delayed just hours before polls were supposed to open last month, prompting legal challenges and confusion.
Tuesday’s election replacing it requires voters to run at least three pieces of mail – an application, a blank ballot and a completed one – through the U.S. Postal Service.
With Joe Biden emerging as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, there’s little suspense in the results. Ohio’s vote is instead being closely watched as a case study for how to proceed with elections if the pandemic doesn’t ease. States have taken drastically different approaches, with Wisconsin proceeding with in-person voting earlier this month and New York saying Monday it would cancel its presidential primary, which was scheduled for June.
Some governors have suggested they would consider moving to an all-mail voting system for the November general election, something President Donald Trump has strongly opposed. The National Conference of State Legislatures says five states currently conduct all elections entirely by mail: Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington and Utah.
As he prepared for the results, Ohio Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose warned the process could be bumpy.
“A lot of things will look like election night, but then some things won’t,” LaRose said in an interview last week.
There will still be some in-person voting on Tuesday. Ohio law guarantees that any voter who doesn’t receive a ballot they requested by the legal deadline has the right to vote in person, meaning they could appear at county boards if they don’t get one by Tuesday afternoon – or potentially sue.
Maryland was also grappling with how to vote safely on Tuesday as polling centers opened to conduct a special election to finish the term of the late Rep. Elijah Cummings.
But most of the focus was on Ohio, where the mail-in election is playing out at a time when support for such a process is rising. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds Democrats are now much more likely than Republicans to support their state conducting elections exclusively by mail, 47% to 29%. In 2018, about half as many Democrats were in favor, and there was little difference in the views of supporters from each party.
LaRose and Ohio’s Republican governor, Mike DeWine, have both been longtime supporters of increasing voting-by-mail options, but the political dynamics could change as the coronavirus redraws the political landscape.
Trump has lately railed against expanding voting by mail, and many Republicans share his concerns. Roughly two-thirds of Republicans worry that voter fraud would be a major problem with all-mail voting, according to the AP-NORC poll. Two months ago, about as many described voter fraud as a major problem in U.S. elections in general. In fact, voter fraud is rare.
Lynne Marshall, of Sylvania, Ohio, opened her mailbox Tuesday and was disappointed to see that her ballot had not arrived after a monthlong wait and countless calls to the state and local election offices.
She spent the next minutes agonizing over whether to cast a provisional vote in person at the election board and put her health at risk or stay home and skip voting for the first time that she can remember.
“I don’t know what to do,” she said. “What should I do? I’m just really disgusted with it all. Of course, I’ll feel guilty if I don’t vote.”
Jen Miller, the head of the League of Women Voters in Ohio said it will be impossible to know how many people stayed home because they didn’t get a ballot in time.
“I do suspect a lot of people are waiting to see if their ballot comes in the mail today,” said Miller, the organization’s state director. “We’ve had people waiting weeks and weeks.”
One thing that won’t be in doubt Tuesday is the presidential primary results since Biden is the only candidate left in the race. Still, early voting began Feb. 19, so Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders could pick up Ohio delegates, despite suspending his campaign nearly three weeks ago.
Sanders has said he’d like to collect as many delegates as possible to influence the party platform at the Democratic National Convention, but he’s already endorsed Biden. The former vice president has suggested that a convention already delayed from June until August because of the coronavirus may have to be held entirely virtually, further defusing the possibility of a nasty floor fight.
Traditionally a general election battleground state, Ohio has shifted to more consistently Republican in recent cycles. Trump won it by a surprisingly high 8 percentage points in 2016, after Barack Obama, with Biden as his running mate, carried the state twice.
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Weissert reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Dan Sewell in Cincinnati and John Seewer in Toledo contributed to this report.
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]]>CHEYENNE, Wyo.– Joe Biden has actually won Wyoming’s Democratic governmental caucus, which had been held off for two weeks and downsized to simply mail-in ballots due to the fact that of the coronavirus pandemic, state party authorities stated Sunday.
The results come less than two weeks after Sanders dropped out and endorsed Biden, who is the only prospect still actively looking for the Democratic nomination. Ballot started when it was still a two-candidate race.
The Wyoming Democratic Celebration announced the outcomes after tabulating votes Saturday and auditing the outcomes overnight.
What was initially to be a combination of in-person caucusing, drop-off and mail-in vote inventory on April 4 was scaled back to simply drop-off and mail-in– and lastly simply mail-in voting.
Celebration officials then pressed back the due date for mailed ballots and inventory to help guarantee involvement.
The mailed-in tallies were due at Wyoming Democratic Party head office Friday. Celebration authorities used a carrier to drive the ballots to Denver for inventory.
The party for the very first time utilized ranked-choice ballot to designate delegates to the Democratic National Convention in August. Citizens could rank approximately 5 prospects according to their choice.
Besides Biden and Sanders, Hawaii U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard; former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg; previous New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg; Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren; Minnesota U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar; and investor Tom
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