"Election fraud?" Ficker asked in a Facebook post showing the improperly-mailed ballot. "How many of these ballots are being mailed by someone else?" Ficker isn't the only one asking questions. A watchdog group has successfully sued to receive the voter registration information of all Montgomery County voters, after it found there are more names registered to vote than there are eligible voters in the county.
In 2018, anomalous voting results were seen at dozens of precincts across Montgomery County in the County Council At-Large race, if not others. The voter universe in that election also increased by about 100,000 voters in only four years since 2014. Local media outlets have not challenged County officials about either issue so far.
Leaving ineligible names on the voter rolls is a key source of voter fraud. Anyone who has the names of deceased or non-resident voters can walk into the appropriate polling place, claim to be that person and provide the few details asked for by judges, and cast a ballot illegally using one of those many names. In this year's by-mail elections, these illegal ballots will be mailed out and ripe for the picking by any organized voter fraud operation, further underlining the urgency in cleaning up Montgomery County's dirty voter rolls.
If the mail carrier delivers a ballot with someone else's name on it and you use it to vote, you are the criminal. It's not USPS's fault, it's not the county's fault, it's your fault. Just because you see something like this and seize it as a key to various types of fraud doesn't mean everyone else has the same reaction. Most people who get a ballot with the name of someone else give it to the intended recipient or throw it away and vote once in their own name.
ReplyDeleteIt's not the USPS' fault - it's the Board of Elections' for keeping deceased and non-resident voter names active on its voting rolls.
DeleteThe recommendation from the BOE in the past regarding materials sent to someone no longer at a given address, or who has passed, is to mark the envelope with "not at this address" and "return to sender" and give back to the mailperson. This is the only way the BOE can keep voter rolls up to date. It takes cooperation by all!
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