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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems as if there is some truth to mail in ballot fraud.

[quote]In 2007, during a spirited debate over photo ID legislation while I was in the Texas Legislature, a Democratic lawmaker from Dallas objected to the bill on the grounds that it allowed voting by mail to proceed without photo identification.

The legislator said: “Vote by mail, that we know, is the greatest source of voter fraud in this state. In fact, all of the prosecutions by the attorney general – I shouldn’t say all, but a great majority of the prosecutions by the attorney general occur with respect to vote by mail.”

As the official now charged with prosecuting election fraud in Texas, I can say unequivocally that the legislator was right: going back more than a decade and continuing through the present day, around two-thirds of election fraud offenses prosecuted by my office have involved some form of mail-ballot fraud.

These prosecutions include instances of forgery and falsification of ballots.

One man pleaded guilty after forging 1,200 mail-in ballot applications, resulting in 700 suspected fraudulent votes in a 2017 Dallas election. He was identified after a voter, whose ballot he harvested, snapped a photo of him on her cellphone.

“Authentic” signatures are also collected from voters, either under false pretenses or by experienced harvesters who confidently gain compliance from voters, as illustrated in a video that surfaced during the 2018 primary in the Houston area.

The anonymous video appears to show how easily a ballot application and signature were collected from a voter by a campaign worker in less than 20 seconds. After providing her signature, the voter asked the worker: “Is this legal, what you’re doing?” The worker replied: “Yes, ma’am, we’ve done 400 already.”

In South Texas, a former U.S. Postal Service employee was convicted of bribery in a federal prosecution in 2017 for selling a list of absentee voters to vote harvesters for $1,200.[/quote]

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/texas-ag-ken-paxton-trump-is-right-and-twitter-is-wrong-is-saying-mail-in-ballot-fraud-is-a-real-problem

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The R in UT who implemented vote by mail disagrees.  And the only reason he, a R, doesn't want mail in ballots nationally is because he thinks it's fed over reach, not because there is too much room for fraud.

[quote]Eliason, an accountant and a former auditing manager, is convinced voting by mail has more controls to identify and prevent fraud than in-person voting.

While Eliason may agree with Democrats in debunking the myths surrounding voting by mail, he joins his Republican colleagues in protesting the spending billions of dollars to get states to change their voting laws and procedures in the throes of a crisis.[/quote]

https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2020/4/14/21215746/coronavirus-covid-19-utah-vote-by-mail-republican-democrat-election-2020-trump-nancy-pelosi

Voter fraud can happen even if it's done in person.  But either way, the incidence of fraud has been low.  Even Trump's own Election Commission couldn't find wide spread fraud in 2016, which also included mail in ballots.[/quote]

It took Utah and the other states that use snly mail in ballots YEARS to make it work.  It is not cheap.  It requires time, updated registration roles, new machines, and a trained workforce.  
It is simply not something that can happen in a few months.

Even 538 questions whether changing to all mail-in voting is doable for the next election.  https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/few-states-are-prepared-to-switch-to-voting-by-mail-that-could-make-for-a-messy-election/

Utah:  https://reasonstobecheerful.world/utah-vote-by-mail-coronavirus/[/quote]

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