Originally Posted by
nmduke2001
This actually worries me a bit. I'm not sure when I registered in NM. I would guess when I returned in 2005. I am not sure what my signature looked like back then. At one point in my life, you could make out all the letters in my signature, now it's basically 5 letters that you can make out. Software nor human eye could verify that it was the same signature. Luckily, I was planning on voting early in person anyway.
Money quote from the article:
And it works. Don't take my word for it, Mr. President. Colorado's Secretary of State Jena Griswold said election officials referred 0.0027% of all ballots cast during the 2018 midterm election for further investigation while data from the conservative Heritage Foundation shows nine instances of voter fraud out of millions of ballots cast since Colorado adopted universal vote-by-mail in 2013.
So, out of a million ballots, that's 27 ballots set-aside for further investigation. You could never be that lucky!
Mail-in voting here started in 2013 (for some reason we seem to vote every year). There were 2.8 million votes cast in 2016, 1.9 million in the Senate race in 2014 and (I guess) about the same in 2018. So, nine cases of voting fraud out of over 6 million in a vote-by-mail state.
We had a distinguished demographer speak at our speaker series a few years ago. Asked about ballot fraud, he replied, "We don't even like to vote when it's legal, much less when it's illegal."
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013