Real Clear Politics - Mail in Ballots Need to Go | Eastern North Carolina Now

Former Democrat President Jimmy Carter and Republican President Donald Trump agree on an important issue in the election process, that mail-in ballots are prone to election fraud and should be avoided to the extent possible.  Carter made that a major point in the report of the election integrity panel he headed by appointment of Congress.  Trump has just issued an executive order on the subject.

What Trump is targeting, is not absentee ballots by mail but the eight states that vote only by mail.  That system is little more than an invitation to fraud.  In one of those states, Nevada, a review of voter registration lists under this system showed quite a list of "voters" registered to vote at vacant lots and at commercial establishments like convenience stores, casinos, and even massage parlors.  In another, Washington, in the last election, a woman who had just bought a new condo came forward with over 20 ballots in various names delivered to her address. If she had been dishonest, she could have voted over 20 times and no one would be the wiser.

Real Clear Politics has a great article on this problem:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/08/22/mail-in_ballots_need_to_go_153204.html

In Jimmy Carter's day the only mail-in ballots were the absentee kind and he worried about them as the voting method most prone to fraud.  Now the Democrats have doubled down on this fraud potential in eight states.  President Trump is right to raise this issue about our election integrity.

Democrats dislike of election integrity is shown in election fraud hotspot Fulton County, Georgia, where the Democrat county commission has arrogantly defied orders of the state courts to seat the two Republican appointees on their Board of Elections.  Their refusal is based on the fact that the Republican appointees are stalwarts for election integrity.

https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/22/fulton-county-defies-court-orders-requiring-confirmation-of-gop-election-board-nominees/