Montana Ballot Audit Shows the Risks of Mail-in Vote Fraud

Montana Ballot Audit Shows the Risks of Mail-in Vote Fraud

We constantly hear that there is no evidence of absentee ballot fraud in the 2020 election. But one state—Montana—has been reckoning with new evidence of how well its 2020 mail-in election went. If the results from Missoula County are any indication, it didn’t go well.

Someone actually was allowed to look!  So what did you find?

State representative Brad Tschida conducted an audit of Missoula County votes with the assistance of the county’s elections office. He found that 4,592 out of all 72,491 mail-in ballots—6.33 percent of the total—did not have envelopes. That is a real problem. It is against the law to count such ballots, as there would be no way to match up signatures to verify that the vote is from a registered voter, and no postmarked date to determine whether the ballot was cast on time.

That is an unacceptable high number.

What makes the Montana audit so important is that it is the only one so far that has looked at all the envelopes in a county. That compares to the 100 envelopes examined in Maricopa County, Arizona, and the 10 percent of the envelopes examined in Cobb County, Georgia.

ALL THE ENVELOPES!  That is how to properly do an audit!

When asked about the ballots, Missoula County elections administrator Bradley Seaman had no explanation for the missing envelopes.

Because they did not want to find, address, and fix the fraud?

A random set of about 15,000 Missoula mail-in ballots were checked for other problems. Fifty-five did not have dates and 53 did not have their signatures checked. That equals a rate of 0.7 percent.

Extrapolating from this sub-sample, and in addition to the 6.33 percent of ballots with no envelopes, that would amount to more than 5,000 Missoula County votes—over 7 percent—with unexplained irregularities.

See no fraud!  Report no Fraud!  Then by their logic there is NO Fraud!

Election officials are required by law to make video recordings of the initial opening of ballots and recount, but, disturbingly, Missoula County’s video is missing. The county now says it counted and scanned in all the envelopes, but the video evidence is lost despite multiple warnings, even before the election, to keep relevant evidence.

And there were other problems. Twenty-eight envelopes from one nursing home allegedly had the same signature. Many dozens of envelopes had identical signatures, but the audit wasn’t allowed to determine the precise number of them. Nor did election officials allow pictures of these identical signatures despite multiple requests.

So they broke the law, but the ends (sleepy uncle joe is POTUS) is all that matters, as they were not charged?

Several close races in Missoula might have been affected by these problems. Only 190 votes determined the winner of House District 96. The margin in District 94 was 435 votes.

Vote fraud in Missoula County—the state’s second most populous county—could determine some statewide elections. In 2012, the Democratic superintendent of public education won the race by 2,231 votes. Steve Bullock won the governorship by just 7,571 votes.

And if the LAW was followed, the election results could have been much different!

Concerns over fraud with absentee and mail-in ballots aren’t limited to the United States. Indeed, almost all European countries have much stricter voting rules to prevent fraud. For example, 74 percent of European countries ban absentee voting altogether. Many countries previously allowed absentee ballots until they discovered massive fraud.

Another 21 percent either limit absentee voting to those in the military or to voters in the hospital, and that one present a photo voter ID to acquire a ballot. This pattern holds for developed countries around the world.

MASSIVE VOTING FRAUD!

But for some reason, the leasons learned in Europe, and the FACT absentee ballots ARE a source of MASSIVE FRAUD, the Dems refuse to publicly admit (but privately realize as they are the reason they are pushing it in the US)

If concern about voter fraud with mail-in ballots is delusional, it is a delusion shared by most of the world. Almost all democracies require government-issued photo IDs to vote. Americans are frequently assured even this step is unnecessary.

Do not look behind the curtain!  Believe us over FACTS!

Whether the 7 percent gap in Montana was due to incompetence or intentional fraud, it is not acceptable.

The audit in Montana will hopefully be a wakeup call before the Senate votes on election reforms. Without basic precautions such as photo IDs and getting rid of mail-in ballots, our elections are on course to become the laughing stock of the developed world.

They already ARE a laughing stock.

Just look at the reactions from Russia and China.

Or even from some of the US’s closest allies.

If election integrity is not FIXED, how can anyone believe there was NO Fraud?  That it was a free and open election?