89 ARTICLES ON WHY VOTING BY MAIL IS A VERY BAD IDEA

89 ARTICLES ON WHY VOTING BY MAIL IS A VERY BAD IDEA

From the No Vote by Mail Project

  1. What’s Wrong With Voting by Mail or Absentee Ballot

  2. The Death of the Polling Place

  3. Absentee Ballot Fraud Hits Texas, Grannyfarming a longterm problem

  4. Milwaukee Police Find Numerous Cases of Absentee Vote Fraud

  5. Vladimir Putin Prefers Voting By Mail

  6. Don’t Forget to Sign Your Ballot

  7. Absentee voting on the rise, who’s pushing this agenda?

  8. Vote-By Mail disenfranchises 1/3rd of Kitsap County Primary Voters

  9. New Jersey Voters Vote Again?

  10. MIT Study says “Abolish on-demand absentee voting”

  11. Vote-By Mail and Electronic Poll Books

  12. More Vote By Mail Problems in California

  13. Oklahoma State Auditor and wife charged with Mail Fraud

  14. California’s televised primary debates miss many voters

  15. California Primary Slowed By Vote-By Mail, Absentee Ballot Count

  16. Another Case of Vote-By Mail Fraud

  17. Democrats say, ”An easier way to vote fraudulently is by mail”

  18. How VBM is Screwing Up California’s Primary

  19. Postmasters Lobby for Vote-By Mail

  20. Absentee Ballot Fraud Alleged in Putin’s Election

  21. Just where or where has my mail ballot gone?

  22. Colorado Voter Group Opposes Vote-By Mail Switch

  23. 4204 Passing, King County Gets the Blame

  24. Absentees and Optical Scans, a Combination that Doesn’t Work

  25. Day 6 of vote counting in King County

  26. Poll Votes much faster to count then Absentee Ballots

  27. Did you already vote by mail? Well it’s too late to change your mind now…

  28. More Absentee Ballot Fraud

  29. Expanding and Improving Opportunities to Commit Vote By Mail Fraud

  30. Vote by Mail Fraud, You Don’t Say

  31. Absentee Ballot Problems in Akron, Ohio

  32. More research shows vote by mail systems do NOT increase turnout

  33. King County Executive, Ron Sims, Contracts to Buy Ballot Tracking Vaporware

  34. Hanky Panky In Union Vote-By Mail Scheme

  35. The Election is in the Mail… Day 14

  36. Some Democrats Reject Forced Vote-By Mail

  37. Vote by mail increases turnout?

  38. My mail from June 13, 2006

  39. Vote Buying (You don’t say)

  40. Voter turnout – higher or lower or the same?

  41. VBM turns out about 1/3rd of Washington Voter’s

  42. King County Adds 27,114 Votes in 3rd Day of Counting

  43. 4th Day of Vote Counting brought to you by Vote-by Mail

  44. 1 Week Later… Votes still coming in to King County Elections

  45. 798 More Ballots Arrive One Week After the Election…

  46. US Postal Service Unions Pushing Vote-By Mail

  47. King County wraps up seventh day of vote counting

  48. Diebold Dazzles (King County) Democrats

  49. Colorado Editorial: Ripe for Fraud

  50. Montana’s Secret Ballot Increasingly Endangered Species

  51. Postmaster General Adresses National Association of Secretaries of State

  52. Let’s all vote by mail, just like…Texas

  53. Hand Counted Paper Ballots for 2008?

  54. Barack Obama Targets Vote Banking through Vote By Mail in California

  55. Pierce County Sacrifices Polling Places for Forced Vote By Mail Absentee Voting

  56. Granny Farming of Absentee Ballots in NJ

  57. More on Kentucky Absentee Ballot Fraud

  58. Take the Last Train to Clarksville, and Don’t forget to Vote

  59. More Absentee Votes Might Not Count Due to County Errors

  60. King County’s Wreckless Plan to Switch To Vote-By Mail

  61. Harvard’s Ben Adida on Vote By Mail and the Secret Ballot

  62. Saving Money At The Price Of Democracy

  63. Vote-By Mail Lobbyist Targets Colorado

  64. King County, WA, 13 Days of Vote Counting, Seattle Special Election, 2007

  65. Why Mail Ballots Are a Bad Idea

  66. New Report on Vote By Mail, VBM Does Not Really Increase Turnout

  67. George Galloway Blasts UK’s Postal Voting System

  68. Oregon and Other States Mail Service Outsourced?

  69. Vote Buying, Bath County, KY

  70. New Group to Push VBM Nationally

  71. Taiwanese Mull Absentee Voting, and China’s Potential Influence On Voters

  72. The “Myth” of Vote Fraud

  73. The Death of the Polling Place, Island County, WA

  74. “Granny Farming” Allegations in Michigan, Virginia, and California moves towards VBM

  75. Vote By Mail a Growing National Attack on Democracy

  76. More Postal Vote Fraud in the UK

  77. Vote Buying in Kentucky

  78. When a Secret Ballot Isn’t Really A Secret Ballot

  79. Prosecuting Honest Voters Does Not Restore My Confidence In Forced Mail Voting

  80. Vote By Mail, Not Cheaper, No Suprise

  81. Absentee Ballot Fraud Allegations and other News, 1/24/2007

  82. California Declares Mail Ballot Only Precincts 

  83. NJ Absentee Ballot Stuffing

  84. Oregon We Have a Problem

  85. The Ongoing Drama of Absentee Voting Problems

  86. Mayor Uses Absentee Ballots to Rig Election, Dateline Nov. 30th, 2006

  87. One Month After the Election… Votes Still Being Counted

  88. Vote By Mail-A Great Example of Voting Badly

  89. More Electoral Fraud By Mail – Dec. 12, 2006

 

“Election rules should seek to minimize the number of provisional ballots cast."

— Thad E. Hall and Tova Andrea Wang

"The more provisional ballots that are cast by voters, the longer it will take to authenticate the provisional ballots, integrate these ballots with the ballots tabulated on election day, and achieve an accurate vote count," write Hall and Wang in "International Principles of Election Integrity."