Category: absentee ballots

Nearly 300 Absentee Ballots From 2020 Election Found in Michigan Storage Unit

Around 300 absentee ballots from the 2020 election were discovered in a Michigan storage shed, per a local news report. The ballots were discovered in a storage unit in Genesee County—a Michigan county comprising the town of Flint and Thetford Township—through the efforts of Thetford Township Supervisor Rachel Stanke, who discussed the issue with The…


Majority of American Voters Rightly Concerned About Vote Fraud

Commentary Watching the news, you’d be led to believe that vote fraud doesn’t exist in the United States. Since the election on Nov. 8, news article after news article has simply dismissed any claims of vote fraud as “baseless” (New York Times and CNN) and “without evidence” (NPR, New York Times, and Washington Post). Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari…


Judge Gives Over 1,000 Georgia Voters Extra Time to Mail in Absentee Ballots

A Georgia judge on Monday agreed to have the ballot return deadline extended for about 1,000 Cobb County absentee voters who didn’t have their requested mail ballots sent out by elections officials. The consent order (pdf) from Cobb County Superior Court Judge Kellie Hill means that the Cobb County Board of Elections and Registration will send replacement ballots to the 1,046…


Wisconsin Court Shoots Down Attempt to Change Rules for Absentee Ballots Before Midterms

A Wisconsin judge on Wednesday dealt a blow to a group in the state who hoped to change rules governing absentee ballots, denying their request that local election clerks accept absentee ballots that contain partial addresses of witnesses. Dane County Circuit Judge Juan Colas said in his ruling (pdf) that in the past 56 years that Wisconsin elections have been…


Sheriff Wants Wisconsin Absentee Ballot Request Process Halted Due to Alleged Vulnerabilities to Fraud

Less than two weeks before the Aug. 9 primary election, Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling called on Wisconsin election officials to immediately suspend a major portion of the state-run absentee ballot program. He also requested an immediate statewide investigation based on an alleged serious threat to voter integrity. In a posting on social media, the…


Pennsylvania Counties Refuse to Count Undated Mail-In Ballots, State Sues

Pennsylvania state is suing officials of three counties to force their local government to count undated mail-in ballots in a recent primary election. The Pennsylvania Department of State (DOS) and Acting Secretary Leigh Chapman filed a lawsuit on July 12 against the Board of Elections of three counties in the Commonwealth—Lancaster, Berks, and Fayette—to seek…


Most Election Fraud Involves Absentee Ballots and Drop Boxes: Expert

Election fraud in the United States dates back to the late 19th century and most often it involves absentee ballots, said Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation and a former commissioner on the Federal Election Commission. Absentee ballots are the only kind of ballots that are voted outside the supervision…


New Peer-Reviewed Research Finds Evidence of 2020 Voter Fraud

Commentary By a margin of 52 percent to 40 percent, voters believe that “cheating affected the outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election.” That’s per a Rasmussen Reports survey from this month. This stands in stark contrast to the countless news stories editorializing about “no evidence of voter fraud“ and “the myth of voter fraud.” It isn’t…


Post 2020 Election Sees Barrage of Election Bills Limiting or Expanding Mail-in Voting

After the unprecedented expansion of mail-in voting in the 2020 election, dozens of states changed their mail-in voting rules. Republican-leaning states tended to introduce measures to make voting more secure, but less convenient. Democrat-leaning states were more likely on the opposite track. At least 36 states passed bills pertaining in some way to mail-in voting,…


Facts Matter (Oct. 29): Sheriff Presents Evidence of Felony Election Fraud in Wisconsin

After a several months-long investigation, the sheriff of Racine County, Wisconsin, just made a televised, public presentation in which he exposed the evidence that his office was able to collect regarding possible felony violations committed by the Wisconsin Elections Commission. Specifically, the evidence showed that absentee ballots were cast on behalf of nursing home residents who…