I have been voting by mail here in Washington for many years and really like it. I sit down with the voters pamphlet and a good cup of coffee, carefully read through it, do whatever additional research is needed and then mark, seal and mail my ballot.
Double-D-ditto on that.
The fraud, though, comes in at the time of registration. I registered quite a numbetr of years ago as a permanent mail-in ballot person. All they asked for my DL and an "attestation" that I was legally entitled to vote. They
may have tightened it up since then --I don't know --but what they may have done with any fraudulent "attestations" done back then in the meantime, I don't know either. For all I know, hundreds of fraudulent voters may still be on the rolls. I can only assume there was some kind of audit in the meantime.
Seemed to me at the time, they were reluctant to press someone on their entitlement to vote for <ahem> "politically correct" reasons.
I was tempted to write myself in as County Assessor, since
nobody was running for that, but they had a little black spot to fill in and a blank line to fill out. I wonder what would have happened on
that one if I was the only one to write in a name.
I'm not even going to turn on the news until about 8:00 PM tonight, though.
Terry, 230RN
