Important reason: The whole process is out of people's supervision.
In 2012, mailed votes accounted for 18.5% of the total votes;
In 2016, mailed votes accounted for 20.9% of the total votes.
In 2020, there will be more than 80 million people who have applied for mail voting.
Vulnerability regarding mailed ballots:
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The whole process is out of people's supervision.
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Deadline
Some states accept mailed ballots that arrive today after November 3, and they are considered valid.
For example: Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada……
This is what Trump insists on: accept mailed ballots, but the results must be released on November 3rd.
Accepting late mailed ballots poses a problem:
For a person who intends to cheat, if the result is to come out on the same day, it will increase the difficulty for him to cheat.
If you make too many fake votes, you will be caught cheating; if you make too few, it won't work.
Some votes were mailed in the past, but it did not affect the overall election.
However, this time the result was postponed.
If you postpone the results for several days, there will be a problem.
Because the person who intends to cheat, he can count according to the situation that has been counted, and then create just the right number of fake votes.
The authenticity of the election mainly comes from two aspects:
- Prove that you voted for this ballot yourself
- Make sure your ballot entered into the ballot box has been counted
There is a situation that has happened in many countries, such as letting unqualified people vote.
For example, under the age of 18, non-citizens, criminals, mental illness, and even dead people.
Or steal the identity information and address information of others to vote.
There is no guarantee that the above-mentioned situation will not happen by mailing ballots.
This is why mailed ballots cannot be trusted, or cannot be fully trusted. Especially this election that looks weird.