Fraudulent Use of Absentee Ballots, Dirty Voter Rolls

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Fraudulent Use of Absentee Ballots, Dirty Voter Rolls Must Be Sorted out Before 2022 Midterms: Experts

When a person dies or fails to provide notification of change of address, a “dirty voter roll” is often the result. This opens the avenue for fraudulent votes, which is exacerbated by the rise of mail-in voting around the country. Eight states—California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, and Washington—allow all elections to be conducted by mail.
But concerned citizens will never know the credibility of any of those claims, because almost all of the previous lawsuits were dismissed on procedural grounds by the courts, according to Hans von Spakovsky.
“We never got to the substantive stage of trial where witnesses could testify and courts could examine their stories, their claims, and determine their credibility,” Spakovsky told The Epoch Times.

Fraudulent Absentee Ballots

According to Spakovsky, fraudulent absentee ballots became a concerning issue in the 2020 election, and their effect must be reined in prior to the midterm elections in 2022 and the next presidential election in 2024. The fraudulent use of absentee ballots involves requesting “absentee ballots and voting without the knowledge of the actual voter; or obtaining the absentee ballot from a voter and either filling it in directly and forging the voter’s signature or illegally telling the voter who to vote for,” according to the Heritage Foundation.
In the 2020 presidential election, Pew Research Center determined that 46 percent of voters voted by absentee or mail-in ballot and that nearly twice as many Biden voters voted by mail as compared to Trump voters. Data by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission shows that voters have increasingly voted by absentee or mail-in ballots for at least a decade.
An online database containing proven cases of election fraud by The Heritage Foundation lists more than a dozen cases of absentee ballot fraud in the past two years.
“The whole problem with mail-in ballots or absentee ballots is that they are the only kind of ballots that are voted outside the supervision of election officials and outside the observation of poll watchers,” Spakovsky said.
Spakovsky acknowledged the need for absentee ballots for people who might be disabled, sick, or out of town on Election Day.
He referred to four previous instances of election fraud—a school board election, a mayoral election, a Democratic mayoral primary election, and a congressional election. Those cases involved fraud committed through absentee and mail-in voting, resulting in a “stolen election,” he said.
According to Spakovsky, another election vulnerability comes in the form of “vote trafficking”—when “third-party strangers” are allowed to go to voters’ homes to pick up ballots and deliver them. This is commonly referred to as “vote harvesting.” This practice “gives the ability of candidates and paid political operatives who have a stake in the outcome of the election to handle something very valuable—the ballot,” he said.
One example is the 2018 election in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District.
“A hired political consultant and his staff went out collecting absentee ballots from voters, forging signatures, and changing and altering ballots,” Spakovsky said.
As a result of this illegal ballot harvesting and ballot tampering operation, the election was overturned.

Dirty Voter Rolls

The Epoch Times also spoke to J. Christian Adams, president and general counsel of Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), the nation’s only nonprofit law firm dedicated to election integrity.
“Voter rolls have also been in a mess in a lot of states for a long time; ballots are sent to bad addresses,” Adams said.

Duplicate and unlawful voter registrations can have an effect on elections, he noted.
For instance, in a testimony (pdf) before the House Judiciary Committee in June 2020, Adams identified a voter named Rashawn Slade from Swissvale, Pennsylvania, who had registered to vote seven times.
In October 2020, PILF released a video (https://publicinterestlegal.org/press/video-visiting-nevada-voters-registered-at-commercial-addresses/)  that documented visits to nonresidential addresses that were claimed by registered voters in Nevada.
In January, PILF shared a report (https://publicinterestlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/AZ-Voter-Roll-Prep-2022-1P-FINAL.pdf) examining Arizona’s voter registration rolls. It found that in 2020, there were 31,641 Arizona voter registrants who had registered for a second time in a new state upon moving.
There were also 863 residents of Arizona who registered twice under variations of their names. Small differences in the way a potential voter spells his or her name can create duplicate registrations, according to Adams.
People have even transposed their date of birth, essentially creating two different people.