Does One Party Want More Uninformed Voters?
…Voters can take their completed ballots to the Lane County Elections Office at 275 W. 10th Ave. in downtown Eugene or to any of more than a dozen election drop boxes…
The real vote-fraud opportunity has arrived: casting your ballot by mail
– News21 (a program of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation)
From a continuing series of articles, Who Can Vote?, a News21 investigation of voting rights in America…
Election fraud is rare, but it usually involves absentee or mail ballots, said Paul Gronke, a Reed College political scientist, who directs the Early Voting Information Center in Oregon…
Curtis Gans, director of the Center for the Study of the American Electorate, said vote-buying and bribery could occur more easily with mail voting and absentee voting…
Our Response & Your Comments
We know the potential for fraud in vote-by-mail elections. For some it’s pretty easy to vote for granny, granddad and a couple of uncles. Others might go door to door in their neighborhood trolling for ballots.
But why let voters vote by mail at all? Because it makes it easier to vote? What’s the virtue of taking nearly all the effort out of voting? Because we get more people to vote? In fact, the easier it is the more we’re pulling into the election process people who are too lazy to go to a polling place or request an absentee ballot.
What else are they too lazy to do? Read a voters’ pamphlet? Read a newspaper? Get informed?
So who wants them to vote? Maybe the party that made these rules wants to attract uninformed voters because they think these people will vote for them.
Oh, by the way – just wait for motor voter registration. You’re gonna just love it. And so is the party that wants it.
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