(by Matthew Vadum, The Epoch Times, July 14, 2020)
The unique problems posed by voting-by-mail are being blamed for election fraud in New Jersey and for a now-three-week delay in counting ballots for New York City’s primary elections, with many races yet to be decided.
These difficulties may foreshadow larger problems to come in the November presidential elections.
The processing backlog in the Big Apple wouldn’t necessarily be a big concern normally, but with voters worried about contracting the CCP virusfrom casting ballots in-person, voting-by-mail was reportedly unusually heavy in the city’s electoral contests.
Officials can’t keep up.
“In Manhattan in 2016, there were approximately 7,000 presidential primary absentee voters,” ABC News quoted Sarah Steiner, who used to chair the New York City Bar’s Election Law Committee. “And you had Hillary [Clinton] and Bernie [Sanders]. That was a competitive [Democratic Party] primary.”
But in 2020, absentee primary votes in Manhattan increased to more than 121,000.
And in New Jersey, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal, a Democrat, charged four Continue reading “Mail-in Voting Problems May Foreshadow Difficulties in Upcoming Presidential Vote”