As elected officials across the country scramble to figure out how to conduct elections without worsening the coronavirus outbreak, many are emphasizing the importance of absentee voting and even considering expanding mail-in ballot options. Voter fraud alarmist groups are taking note.
Yeah, here in Oregon vote-by-mail has clearly led to massive voter fraud…why else would we have only a single Republican in our Congressional delegation?
To ensure their votes get counted, all republicans should only vote in-person.
And don’t forget to hug and kiss the rest of the folks in line.
NO! I have lived in Oregon for decades, and there has NOT been appreciable fraud.
Sure you can steal a ballot from a mailbox (a felony) but the outer envelope must be signed by the person to whom it was sent, and have it individually checked to see that it matches the signature on file. Forging a signature is also a felony.
There is no evidence of fraud that I’ve heard about.
I’m glad they’re hot on the case!
Washington state, which only conducts mail-in balloting, has long been a veritable hotbed of (non-existent) voter fraud.
Predictable panic by R’s who stand to lose in most states whenever the franchise is expanded. Vote-by-mail works fine here in WA. Every state should use it.
California municipalities are looking into how to follow Padilla’s advisory,
Contact Angela Myers, Larimer County Clerk and Recorder. She runs an excellent elections program and is an elected Republican so you won’t have to worry about the evil Democrats in Oregon and Washington.
I would hope that the state uses signatures from the most recent document than when one signed their voter registration card. I’m only pointing this out because I signed my voter registration card back in 1979 (High school, League Women Voters nabbed in the hallway, and I’ve voted from the same address ever since).
Oh dear…that was sarcasm.
Obviously not a true red blooded Republican, since she runs a tight ship. 
I am sure all of our R leaders here in Texas are going crazy thinking about mail-in ballots. They hate them because they just know that everyone HAS to be trying to cheat, because that is what R’s do. They think everyone is out to cheat just like Dear Leader. They will try to keep the draconian mail-in rules they’ve put together in order to verify each and every physical ballot. The electronic voting machines were already programmed by their favored suppliers to favor R’s.
American democracy - dead from its own stupidity by 2021.
Voting fraud alarmist groups claim that an increase in mail-in voting will lead to rampant, election-swinging criminality. While vote-by-mail fraud is more real than virtually nonexistent in-person voting fraud, it is still rare. That has not stopped these groups from grasping at straws to argue that it will create a cataclysmic problem, like they’ve done time and time again.
Oregon has had vote by mail, and then registration when one gets a driver’s license, all the twenty four years I’ve lived here, i can recall only one fraudulent incident and that was committed by a Republican precinct worker in Clackamas County.
Factual evidence does not matter to these whackos though. A fair election for them is one where they can tip the scales in their favor.
Thanks, I appreciate the clarification. Please label sarcasm as such. I got chewed out by other commenters not long ago for saying something like that before. But in times such as these, it can be hard to tell what is sarcasm and what is not. There are plenty of 400 pound trolls who might post something like that simply to stir the pudding.
Believe me the Republicans would work very hard to create fraud, it’s the one thing they excel at, I do think its a good idea.
Good point. Because we have to sign anew each time we get our driver’s licences renewed (a digital copy is printed on the back of the licence), I assume the DMV provides those to the Secretary of State and local voting officials.
I bring it up because we used to sign in with pen and paper book at the polls. And now it’s all digital, which is nothing like my ever changing signature.
There are ways to deal with that. My wife got a letter after she mailed in her ballot for the recent Dem primary here in WA, saying her signature on the envelope didn’t match their records (which I guess was her initial sign-up when we moved to WA 19 years ago).
All she had to do was sign the letter and mail it back under the deadline, which was a couple of weeks after the vote deadline, and her vote was counted. And I assume the signature record was updated.
There is also an online check you can do, to make sure your mail-in ballot was counted. It’s a backstop to help avoid anyone monkeying with the ballots.
But the GOP KNOWS there is absentee ballot fraud. They have used in NC-9 for years!
Now that cursive is no longer being taught how will today’s kids authenticate their ballots 
Attach a selfie?