Voter Fraud

Over the past year Iowa and many other states have started doing mail in ballots. Mailing ballots became a thing when some people during the Coronavirus Pandemic were too scared to leave their house to go vote at their polling place. Mailing in ballots can increase voter fraud turnout but could also help people who are not able to go to their polling place to vote. 

Voter fraud is when a person commits or attempts to commit a fraud with a connection of voting, or votes more than once in an election. If a person does this they can be convicted of a felony of the third degree and fined up to 5,000 or serve up to five years. Many politicians in every level of government have claimed that in 2016,2018 and 2020 elections were ruined unfairly by large numbers of people voting illegally. Democrat and Republican parties are both guilty of voter fraud during multiple elections. The Democrats claim voter fraud by Republicans in 2000, 2004, 2016, 2018. The Republicans have also claimed Voter fraud in Democrats  in 2020. The supreme court has rejected each of these hearings saying none of them had accurate or enough proof claiming Voter fraud. There has never been any ruling of voter fraud by Republican or Democratic parties as a whole but there has been around 475 voter fraud cases in the United States by individual people. This number has increased as the amounts of mail out ballots have increased. 

The reason states have chosen to mail out voting Ballots is to increase voter turnout.  This has increased because some voters are not feeling safe or secure in the voting process saying that they still don't feel comfortable in the polling places. Some other people, mostly elderly like to mail out ballots because they are unable to go to the polling places. Some people would rather have mail out ballots to help with the gas and time it can take to vote. 

In my opinion There should not be mail in ballots because it can increase voter fraud and probably has. When a relative of mine died she still got 2 mail in ballots. I don't think that she could have been the only one that has gotten a few ballots. If we were to fill in her ballot and turn it in it would be counted. I think that it creates voter fraud and unfair elections. 

 

https://www.brennancenter.org/issues/ensure-every-american-can-vote/vote-suppression/myth-voter-fraud

https://www.browardvotes.gov/Voter-Information/Voter-Fraud

Do you think there should be mail in ballots?

If so, why or why not?

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  • Intersting topic and super job Molly!! 

  • I think that mail in ballots are not a good idea. I think that people could illegally change the answers on them. Also, some could get lost or get sent to the wrong place or even be forged and filled out by a random person who dosnt even live at some random address and someones name on it could be wrong

    • I agree and some have cheated and forged.

  • I think that there should not be mail in ballots i think that it is not fair to others. I believe that it is very easy to cheat on it. I believe that it should be able to chose where you put it because it would be way bettter and safer at some points.

    • I agree and many people have cheated on them.

  • I don't think there should be mail-in ballots. Many items get lost in the mail on a daily basis, therefore, we aren't 100% sure those votes will get counted. People can also throw the mail-in ballots away, making it an unfair vote. 

    • I agree and it makes elections unfair.

  • I think mail ballots should not be allowed because it could be dangerous. People could easily steal them from someone elses mail. Or someone could simply throw it out. Its simply to risky to have mail ballots.

    • I agree and many people have.

  • In my opinion, I do not think that mail-in ballots should be allowed.  I think that it would be very easy to throw ballots out. People have been caught getting rid of mail-in ballots already and that just proves how fake they can be. People could also steal ballots by going through others' mail.

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