If Elections Are To Be Trusted, They Must Be Trustworthy

That's exactly what happened in Wisconsin in 2020, when the state's Elections Commission suspended legal requirements for bipartisan Special Voting Deputies to oversee absentee voting in the state's nursing homes.

"Vote buying schemes are far more difficult to detect when citizens vote by mail," the Carter-Baker Commission adds, recommending that states prohibit third-party organizations, activists, parties, and candidates from handling absentee ballots.

The 2020 election saw postal facilities turned into de facto vote processing centers.

Despite the central role that U.S. Postal Service employees, contractors, and facilities played in the election - and the fact that the American Postal Workers Union endorsed Joe Biden - there was shockingly little oversight of the USPS. Bipartisan election observers were kicked out or relegated to the penalty box of arena-sized official vote counting centers, and were never even granted hypothetical access to the USPS facilities that processed tens of millions of mail-in ballots.

Concerns about the reliability of voting machines have been growing for decades, ever since their widespread adoption in the wake of the 2000 election.

The Carter-Baker Commission called for an auditable backup on paper and independent testing of voting machines under supervision by the federal Election Assistance Commission.

Reasonable accommodations can be made for service members stationed overseas, voters with disabilities, and others who legitimately require an alternative method of casting their ballot.
 

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