How you stop voter and election fraud completely. Part 1.
Of course this means no mail in votes.
Voting for high level offices like president, U.S. senators, governors, and U.S. house members is serious business. Literally as serious as a heart attack, as the events of the past two years of Corona fear porn and the resulting unconstitutional actions taken in the name of stopping Corona, as well as the abysmal past year of the Biden fraudulency show quite well. With this in mind, the idea of making voting so easy that almost no effort is required is obviously a horribly bad idea.
Mail in voting is touted not just by left wing democrats, but also by clueless Republicans and of course by RINOs. Pretty much all arguments for mail in voting claim it is perfectly safe and has worked well for many years. All of those arguments are crap.
To believe mail in voting is safe, you must believe a number of things that are demonstrably false. That no one is stealing mail in ballots, that no mail in ballots are misdirected, that no one is paying anyone in any way to buy their votes, that there are no bogus voter registrations to take advantage of the lack of ID, etc. You also need to believe that basic human nature, as shown again and again in studies, is that almost 100% of people are completely honest. This is absurd on its face.
Without trying to find the old study I saw years ago, I recall that up to 40% of people will cheat or steal even if they think there is a chance that they will get caught. Up to 60% will do so if they are certain that they will not get caught. Obviously the specific scenario and the potential punishment if caught would change the %. Here’s an article that doesn’t give percentages, but does discuss the reality of the situation.
Most of us know this to be true just based on our interactions with other people, or our own actions. The vast majority of people will lie on a small number of topics, and many others will lie very frequently about all kinds of things. This means that of course low level cheating or stealing where there is little chance of getting caught and/or the punishment is mild is very common. Something like voting for other family members, voting extra ballots that show up at your house, or even offering someone poor $10 to buy their ballot is unlikely to be discovered, so of course that goes on regularly. So when you hear a politician anywhere claiming that mail in voting is perfectly safe, you know that they are a lying liar.
The majority of European countries know mail in voting isn’t secure, which is why 63% of them ban mail in voting unless you actually live overseas. 22% ban mail in voting entirely:
Most developed countries, especially in Europe, ban mail-in voting to fight vast fraud and vote buying that had threatened the integrity of their elections, according to an exhaustive review of voting rules and histories in over 30 major nations.
In the European Union, 63% have put a ban on mailing in ballots except for citizens living overseas. Another 22% have imposed a ban even for those overseas. And most of those that allow mail-in ballots require some form of photo ID to get one, according to the report from the Crime Prevention Research Center shared with Secrets.
So step one of stopping voter and election* fraud is to end mail in voting. In no event ever do you mail out ballots to millions more people, and in many states completely unrequested, in the name of stopping a virus, and then claim it was the most secure election ever. To stop the most fraud, end mail in voting completely.
*Election fraud is wide scale, involving changing/illegally casting thousands of votes. Voter fraud is small scale, usually involving one person casting 2 to 10 votes by getting extra ballots in one way or another.