Democrats keep asking for proof that mail-in voting can lead to a corrupt result. The Public Interest Legal Foundation has estimated that, over the last decade, 28 million mail ballots were missing or misdirected. The foundation argues that “putting the election in the hands of the U.S. Postal Service would be a catastrophe.” But you don’t need to believe PILF.
This past week we had several stark examples. Patterson, N.J.’s May city council election by mail will be redone in November because 24 percent of the ballots were rejected in one ward and 10 percent were rejected overall.
For the Aug. 4 Michigan primary, over 10,000 mailed ballots were rejected, 846 of them “because the voter was dead,” according to the Detroit News.
Clark County, Nev., held a June primary for which 223,000 ballots, mailed to all, not just active voters, were “undeliverable” according to the Review Journal.
Clearly, with national elections being decided by just 1 to 2 percent in many critical swing states, fiascos far smaller than those just described could elect the presidential candidate who actually lost. Alternatively, the election results could be delayed for months of recounting and legal wrangling.
The view of Blank Slate Media and its “progressive” columnist, Karen Rubin, that President Trump opposes mass mail balloting because he is intent on suppressing the vote for his own benefit, is simply another Trump Derangement Syndrome conspiracy theory.
Len Mansky
Roslyn
