Saturday, May 23, 2020

A Vote-by-Mail Nightmare

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said Tuesday that every voter there will be sent an application to cast a ballot by mail.

North Carolina says mail ballots are valid if they arrive three days after Election Day, provided their postmarks beat the deadline.

Swarms of people have voted by mail for the first time, many of them incorrectly.

The presidential race is tight, with Donald Trump or Joe Biden leading nationally by 500,000, similar to the popular vote in 2000.

As states extend mail voting, they should tighten deadlines and ban ballot harvesting.

The bill also says that states "Shall permit a voter to designate any person to return a voted and sealed absentee ballot," on the sole condition that canvassers not be paid per vote.

At best, mass mail voting is a roll of the dice, calculated against the grim reality of the pandemic.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-vote-by-mail-nightmare-11590189749

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