A California man has been charged with mail-in voting fraud, accused of casting votes because of his deceased mother in three distinct elections.
According to the criminal complaint, he was charged last month with one felony count of fraud in connection with votes cast, and a single felony count of fraudulent voting, relevant whenever someone applies for"a vote by mail ballot by fraudulently signing the title of... a person who is not qualified to vote."
Mail-in voting has become a hot-button issue ahead of the 2020 presidential electionwith President Trump routinely railing against it. He tweeted last month that international mail-in voting would result in"the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history."
@realDonaldTrump
With Universal Mail-In Voting (maybe not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a fantastic humiliation to the USA. Delay the Election until people can correctly, safely and safely vote???
"You can not have millions and millions of ballots sent all over the place, sent to individuals who are dead, sent to puppies, cats, delivered to everybody," Trump said Tuesday. "That is a critical situation, this is not matches, and you have to get it right."
Meanwhile, Democrats are accusing President Trump of sabotaging the Postal Service to deny voters their faith.
"The President has explicitly stated his aim to control the Postal Service to refuse qualified voters access to the ballot accountable for his own re-election," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, along with other Democratic leaders said in a statement Sunday. "Alarmingly, the Postmaster General -- a Trump mega-donor -- has acted as an accomplice in the President's campaign to cheat in the election, as he launches sweeping new operational changes that hamper delivery standards and delay the email."
Studies on voter fraud haven't found widespread issues with mail-in voting. News21, a nationwide reporting initiative at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, found that between 2000 and 2012, there were 491 cases nationwide of absentee ballot fraud, also a type of mail-in voting.
Law professor Richard L. Hasen mentioned from the Washington Post that those 491 cases happened at a time when billions of votes were cast.
However, there are a few recent instances of fraud between mail-in voting that may give supporters of universal mail-in voting pause. Additionally, the Paterson Press reported that roughly a fifth of the mail-in ballots used in that election were rejected due to trademark irregularities, improperly filled with forms along with other problems.
Mail-in voting will probably be much more prevalent in the upcoming election on account of this coronavirus pandemic. A New York Times analysis predicted that 80 million mail-in ballots are most likely to be used this year, which is more than double the amount used in the past presidential election.
According to the criminal complaint, he was charged last month with one felony count of fraud in connection with votes cast, and a single felony count of fraudulent voting, relevant whenever someone applies for"a vote by mail ballot by fraudulently signing the title of... a person who is not qualified to vote."
Mail-in voting has become a hot-button issue ahead of the 2020 presidential electionwith President Trump routinely railing against it. He tweeted last month that international mail-in voting would result in"the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history."
@realDonaldTrump
With Universal Mail-In Voting (maybe not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a fantastic humiliation to the USA. Delay the Election until people can correctly, safely and safely vote???
"You can not have millions and millions of ballots sent all over the place, sent to individuals who are dead, sent to puppies, cats, delivered to everybody," Trump said Tuesday. "That is a critical situation, this is not matches, and you have to get it right."
Meanwhile, Democrats are accusing President Trump of sabotaging the Postal Service to deny voters their faith.
"The President has explicitly stated his aim to control the Postal Service to refuse qualified voters access to the ballot accountable for his own re-election," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, along with other Democratic leaders said in a statement Sunday. "Alarmingly, the Postmaster General -- a Trump mega-donor -- has acted as an accomplice in the President's campaign to cheat in the election, as he launches sweeping new operational changes that hamper delivery standards and delay the email."
Studies on voter fraud haven't found widespread issues with mail-in voting. News21, a nationwide reporting initiative at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, found that between 2000 and 2012, there were 491 cases nationwide of absentee ballot fraud, also a type of mail-in voting.
Law professor Richard L. Hasen mentioned from the Washington Post that those 491 cases happened at a time when billions of votes were cast.
However, there are a few recent instances of fraud between mail-in voting that may give supporters of universal mail-in voting pause. Additionally, the Paterson Press reported that roughly a fifth of the mail-in ballots used in that election were rejected due to trademark irregularities, improperly filled with forms along with other problems.
Mail-in voting will probably be much more prevalent in the upcoming election on account of this coronavirus pandemic. A New York Times analysis predicted that 80 million mail-in ballots are most likely to be used this year, which is more than double the amount used in the past presidential election.