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The Associated Press is suddenly very concerned about vote fraud via ballot stuffing in drop boxes. Allegations of drop box vote fraud is not coming from the "usual suspects" -- what they would describe as "right-wing conspiracy theorists" -- but rather from two Democrat candidates running for mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut. You can read the AP concern in the headline of their Saturday article by Christina A. Cassidy and Susan Haigh, "Drop boxes have become key to election conspiracy theories. Two Democrats just fueled those claims."
If the truth hurts your narrative it's your narrative that is the problem.
Concerns over fraud with absentee ballots is not something limited to Republicans in the United States. Indeed, many European countries have voting rules stricter to prevent fraud than what we have in the United States. For example, 74% entirely ban absentee voting for citizens who live in their country. Another 6% allow it, but have very restrictive rules, such as limiting it to those in the military or are in a hospital, and they require evidence that those conditions are met. Another 15% allow absentee ballots but require that one has to present a photo voter ID to acquire it. Thirty-five percent of European countries completely ban absentee ballots for even those living outside their country. The pattern is similar for developed countries.Many of these countries have learned the hard way about what happens when mail-in ballots aren’t secured. They have also discovered how hard it is to detect vote buying when both those buying and selling the votes have an incentive to hide the exchange.France banned mail-in voting in 1975 because of massive fraud in Corsica, where postal ballots were stolen or bought and voters cast multiple votes. Mail-in ballots were used to cast the votes of dead people.The United Kingdom, which allows postal voting, has had some notable mail-in ballot fraud cases. Prior to recent photo ID requirements, six Labour Party councilors in Birmingham won office after what the judge described as a “massive, systematic and organised” postal voting fraud campaign. The fraud was apparently carried out with the full knowledge and cooperation of the local Labour party. There was “widespread theft” of postal votes (possibly around 40,000 ballots) in areas with large Muslim populations because Labour members were worried that the Iraq war would spur these voters to oppose the incumbent government.https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/01/voting-by-mail-how-other-countries-do-it.php
