How to Steal an Election: Mail-In Ballots | 5 Minute Videos | PragerU

is there a problem with universal mailin balloting sounds simple enough you fill out a ballot stick it in the mail somebody counts it on Election Day in fact we already do that with absentee ballots right so why would Universal mailin balloting be any different well the biggest difference is that with absentee ballots the voter specifically asks for a ballot with universal mail and balloting ballots are mailed out in Mass millions of people who would normally go to the polls vote by mail instead no national election has ever been conducted this way and there are very good reasons to be concerned that one ever should reason number one bureaucratic incompetence I don't think I have to sell you on the idea that when the government bureaucracy takes on a big new project with little preparation the results aren't pretty we've seen those results as it relates to mail and balloting already Wisconsin was one of the first states to hold up Primary in the Corona virus era it saw an influx in mailin votes as a result predictably this led to Serious snafus thousands of requested ballots were not sent 1,600 ballots were found in a mail processing center the day after the election 23,000 votes were rejected due to missing signatures or other missing information and those are the mistakes we know about in just one state and in one primary election when fewer people than in the general election typically bother to cast a vote in Pennsylvania where they delayed the date of their primary to get better prepared for the expected increase in mailin balloting they still couldn't handle the volume half of Philadelphia's votes were still uncounted a week after the election in Virginia more than half a million applications for ballots were mailed with incorrect information some of the applications went to the wrong addresses some went to dead voters one even went to a pet under the best of circumstances the bureau struggles with mail and balloting under less than the best of circumstances that's not a scenario we want to face which brings us to reason number two for concern shoddy security here's what the New York Times said about voting by mail in an article in 2012 keep in mind they were talking about traditional absentee balloting not a mass mailing of ballots there is a bipartisan consensus that voting by mail whatever its impact is more easily abused than other forms no no kidding in May 2020 New Jersey conducted its first ever all male election one month later two elected officials were among four charged with criminal conduct involving mail and ballots one operative confessed to stealing ballots both completed and uncompleted out of mailboxes other operatives compiled a database of signatures of prospective voters and then used them to fill out ballots on behalf of their preferred candidates and we only know about it because they got caught election fraud only figures to get easier because of a new weapon in the cheaters Arsenal ballot harvesting this is the term for when a third party usually a campaign worker or activist goes to people's homes and collects their ballots with ballot harvesting you don't even have to put your ballot in the mailbox vote Harvesters will pick it up for you the opportunities for Mischief say pressuring people to vote a certain way destroying ballots or filling out ballots for those who didn't bother to vote are endless vote harvesting that targets senior citizens for their ballots even has its own name granny farming reason number three to be concerned the likelihood of long delays in determining final results Americans are used to knowing who won and who lost within hours of the polls closing on Election Day of course some close races take longer to sort out but the longer it takes the less legitimate an election seems that is exactly what happened in the 2000 presidential election Bush VOR then the dispute was focused on a single state Florida it was finally settled by the Supreme Court over a month later if we have a national election that relies heavily on mail and voting we're almost certain to see a significant delay before we get the final results from the post office to the vote counters the system is just not set up for it in a close contest involving massive mailin voting lawsuits disputing the results are inevitable this could delay final results even longer and instead of involving a single state it's likely to involve multiple States this is a recipe for civil unrest as frustration and fear of a stolen election grips voters bureaucratic incompetence shoddy security long delays these are just some of the concerns any reasonable person should have over Universal mail and balloting what's the solution simple if you need to vote absentee request the ballot otherwise vote like you always have in person I'm Eric Edgars investigative reporter for the government accountability Institute for Prager University this video was made possible through a generous donation from 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