Trump telling PA GOP to steal the next election

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30. The issue may focus more on mail ballots than voting in person.

Unless the partisan counters have access to voting machine programs, it’s hard to cheat. But with mail ballots, there are ways for the counter to cheat. One change in the recent Texas voter suppression laws relates to checking signatures. In the past, election clerks had to check the signature on the mail ballot against a signature no more than six years old, presumably because people must renew a driver’s license every six years. Republicans changed this requirement to allow matching of signatures as much as thirty years old. I can look today at my signature from thirty years ago and see differences, as our handwriting changes as we age. Plus, some people tend to hurriedly scrawl signatures without worrying that it might not match an “official” signature at some point in the future. That change opens the door to partisan clerks calling a signature mismatch and throwing out the ballot.

Another way to cheat is to find a minor mistake on a mail ballot but hold it until near electionnday to prevent the voter from having time to fix the error. Another Republican trick is for the permanent election staff to deliberately enter an error into the system from a new voter registration form. By changing a middle initial or changing the spelling of a name slightly, when the voter may have to cast a provisional ballot that is never counted.

And of course there was Brian Kemp’s trick of just not processing around 50,000 voter applications until after the election. We need completely independent elections staff that are not partisan to either political party.