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Jimmy Carter headed an organization that studied election systems around the world. He knew a whole lot more about the impact of mail-in voting than the anonymous "Big Bob" who seems to know little except the current Democrat talking points. From his own familiarity with voting systems and those of his organization, Jimmy Carter told us that mail-in voting is the type most prone to fraud. That is why it should be limited to situations where someone cannot actually make it to the polls on election day or during early voting.
the widespread use of mail-in voting and such other highly insecure measures like unattended ballot drop boxes were an invitation to fraud. Partisan Democrat attorneys pushed this hard for the 2020 election and kept their foot on the gas ever since. It is telling that a party pushes voting procedures that its own former leader has pointed out are the most prone to fraud. In the last election, there was a link posted on the BO to an article about a woman on the west coast (California, if memory serves) who moved into a new one bedroom apartment and received over twenty mail-in ballots in various names in the apartment's mail box. She took them all to the elections officials and turned them in. How many would have been tempted with such a system just to vote twenty times? Further, with that many in one small apartment, there is a real question of whether many or all of them had always been bogus. One remembers the scandal of the leftwing Democrat voter registration group ACORN being caught engaging all over the country in fraudulent voter registration. In the pre-2020 world, someone out of town on election day would normally vote by mail-in ballot. That would include politicians who were in Washington, DC, not their home states, like Trump. That would fall within one of the traditional exceptions to voting at the polling place in the pre-2020 era. Actually, in many foreign countries such as most of them in Europe, it is common practice for politicians to vote in person at their home polling place early on election day as a PR measure and photo op for the media.
Commented: Saturday, September 5th, 2026 @ 7:32 pm
By: Steven P. Rader
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Trump votes by mail.
You can’t have it both ways. He won in 16 Lost in 20 Won in 24. Republicans have done well during this time. All under the same election rules. How do you argue that the system is corrupt when your guys keep winning? Makes you sound like an extremist that won, failed miserably at governing, but wants to keep power against the will of the voter now that it appears voters are weary and might change direction. That’s not patriotic, that’s f-ed up.
Commented: Saturday, September 5th, 2026 @ 12:29 pm
By: big Bob
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Washingtonian, that provision applies statewide. One election year when I was working abroad I had to use it because of the three times the BOE mailed me a ballot, two did not arrive and the third arrived a few days after the election. As I recall, I could only vote in statewide races that way, not local races. the form I was sent stated it was only for military and US government employees who were abroad, but I was told to submit it even though I did not fall into either one of those categories. I never did check to see if my email vote actually got counted.
It would have been so much simpler just to go down to the embassy to vote as so many other countries do.
Commented: Friday, September 4th, 2026 @ 9:30 pm
By: Steven P. Rader
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Big Bob: "Voting by mail increases participation and is proven safe and secure.
Trump votes by mail." This Democratic Socialist scheme is part of the many schemes that Non Patriot Left employed to successfully cheat in the 2020 Presidential Election to "elect" the Vegetable President, and the Non Patriot Left will continue to cheat as long as the People let them.
Commented: Friday, September 4th, 2026 @ 9:22 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I know for a fact that (at least in Pitt County) a citizen living abroad can vote via EMAIL !
Commented: Friday, September 4th, 2026 @ 3:11 pm
By: Washingtonian
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What mail-in voting increases is fraud, like that dog that voted in California or the Pakistani man who had never even been to the US voting in California voting there. There are also incidents of people moving into a new apartment and at election time, 20 or more ballots arriving in various names to the apartment. There are also things like that example cited in Germany where a man with guardianship over his mother with severe dementia in a nursing home, who was supposed to receive all of her mail, discovering that her mail in ballot was not in the mail he received. When he inquired of the nursing home, they claimed all ballots received by residents without mental capacity had been shredded. However, when he checked with election officials, he found that her ballot had actually been receive and counted. There is a link to that story in a comment in this tread.
Jimmy Carter, who was an expert in election practices knew the problems with mail-in voting. All Bob pose is parrot the talking points of today's self serving Democrat politicians. I have voted by mail in ballot myself when I worked overseas. I would much rather have been able to just go down to the US embassy to vote in person, but we do not do that in the US, unfortunately.
Commented: Friday, September 4th, 2026 @ 2:03 pm
By: Steven P. Rader
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Voting by mail increases participation and is proven safe and secure.
Trump votes by mail.
Commented: Friday, September 4th, 2026 @ 1:05 pm
By: big Bob
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As a voting system prone to misuse, voting by mail should only be allowed in limited cases, such as where a person is going to be out of town on election day (and during early voting) or unable to get to the polling place. That account of the mail ballots at the nursing home in Saxony-Anhalt is a very good example of how voting by mail can be abused.
When I worked in eastern Europe, a number of countries in that area did not allow any voting by mail. For voters physically unable to get to the polling station, they had an interesting practice of the "mobile ballot box". A person who could not get to the polls notified the election officials during the morning of election day, and in the mid afternoon, a team of election officials, along with election observers got in a car and drove a small ballot box and a stack of ballots around to all the people who had requested the mobile ballot box. For voters who were abroad, every embassy opened a polling station for citizens to come vote. In countries with a lot of expats or large size, they also opened scattered polling stations at other sites. In recent Romanian elections, they have had the closest polling station located in Norfolk, Virginia. Recent Moldovan elections have had one polling place in North Carolina, which has moved from Raleigh to Hickory to Asheville. These extra polling stations have been organized by the embassy in cooperation with the country's central election commission. Voting by mail should be available but only for those with a good reason to vote that way. The reason is making election fraud more difficult.
Commented: Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 @ 7:02 pm
By: Steven P. Rader
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Former Democrat President Jimmy Carter's Commission on Federal Election Reform, in their report pointed out that the form of voting most prone to fraud is mail-in voting. They recommended that its use be MINIMIZED. Instead, the Democrats, who do not want election fraud to go to waste have been trying since about 2020 to MAXIMIZE it.
If we want free and fair elections, Jimmy Carter had a very good point on mail-in voting. It should be minimized.
Commented: Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 @ 3:52 pm
By: Conservative Voter
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Fact:
Trump votes by mail. Good enough for him, good enough for us.
Commented: Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 @ 2:57 pm
By: big Bob
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Mail-in voting is an engine of election fraud everywhere. A criminal investigation has been opened in Germany on mail-in vote fraud in an upcoming state election there, and already there is a smoking gun: rmx.news
Commented: Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 @ 8:14 am
By: Rino Hunter
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