Pennsylvania County Sued over Illegal Ballot Drop Box Usage Captured on Camera [pdf]

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by lkjwlk35 • 4 years ago

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lkjwlk35• 4 years ago

There are so many pictures in this complaint.

There aren't just one, two, ten. Scroll down - there is an obscene number of photos here.

danrocks4• 4 years ago

I am convinced there was fraud in the 2020 election. Enough to give Biden the win? Maybe not, but fraud nonetheless.

rootusrootus• 4 years ago

There was some fraud, yes, not a whole lot, and so far only on the Republican side. But to swing an election at the national level it would require millions of votes. That's a tall order.

causality02• 4 years ago

If that belief is based on solid evidence that you have, many people would pay you millions of dollars for it.

labster• 4 years ago

There is fraud in every election. All polls have a margin of error, and that includes polling places.

Like all fraud, we don’t want to spend enough resources to eliminate it entirely, because this has negative effects on legitimate customers/voters. There was an article recently by patio11 about how credit cards choose a level of fraud to tolerate in the interest of the system functioning. Voting works the same way; restrictions on mail ballots and ID requirements limit more legitimate voters than fraudulent votes, so a prudent approach is to only investigate in cases where it makes a difference. We call these recounts in elections, and audits in finance.

If conservatives want to run the country more like a business, well, this is their chance.

13of40• 4 years ago

I'm convinced there was an illegal and violent coup attempting to overturn the 2020 election. It killed people. What was your thing again?

MerelyMortal• 4 years ago

I think some fraud happened (elsewhere), but that doesn't mean those pictures are evidence of fraud (even though maybe a violation of law). Could they just be dropping off household family members' ballots as a favor, or way to save gas?

isx726552• 4 years ago

From a quick skim, most of them show people dropping off two ballots. Some show three or four, maybe five in one case, but it seems most show just two.

The lawsuit quotes these rules for using the drop box:

You must only return your own ballot. You are prohibited from delivering or returning any else’s ballot, even if that person is your spouse, parent, child, grandparent, other relative, neighbor or friend.

Is there any reason to believe this is anything more than people simply bending the rules to drop off their spouses’ or other family members’ ballots?

CardenB• 4 years ago

These are almost entirely people delivering 2 ballots. Likely the case that they are delivering a ballot for a spouse.

According to the document, that is not technically allowed.

Important to note that the document does not indicate some sort of conspiratorial fraud.

boomboomsubban2• 4 years ago

"An obscene amount" is around 250, most of which are someone dropping off two ballots. The report itself says around 300 potentially invalid ballots. Probably less than the amount of miscounted ballots.

liquidise• 4 years ago

This post seems a bit off-topic for HN, but is dropping off multiple (in many cases 2) ballots simultaneously all that unusual? I can imagine many instances here in CO where a husband/wife would drop off their spouse's ballot. I understand that may be against the letter of the law in some states, but i doubt it constitutes election fraud.

SamoyedFurFluff• 4 years ago

Unfortunately my understanding is that election fraud if quite often just normal shit like that, regular people who are punished harshly to be made examples of for political football…

Fatnino• 4 years ago

In CA the ballot return envelope has a space to write who your designated person to drop it off is.

Sure you can get away with leaving it blank, but why would you?

jamroom• 4 years ago

In other words "let's see if we can invalidate as many ballots as we can in a county where we're not happy with who they vote for based on a technicality". I'm willing to bet the majority of these pictures are of people that had no idea of this "requirement".

derekdahmer• 4 years ago

If they truly want to require one person per ballot drop them in the mailbox then yea this system is not going to work. Most people aren’t going to make their spouse come along with them in the car just to drop their ballots off unless someone there is enforcing it.

Not sure why this rule exists though. There’s no one preventing you from mailing a stack of absentee ballots in so why does it matter with the physical dropbox?

tolmasky• 4 years ago

A fair number of these are someone dropping off two envelopes from a car and you can’t really see if there is another person in the car. Honest question: is it actually illegal if two people drive together to the drop box for the person in the drop box side to drop both envelopes off? Is the other person supposed to technically open the door, walk around the car, and drop their’s off separately?

woodruffw2• 4 years ago

I don't think there's a single DA in this country who would prosecute someone for sitting in the passenger seat of a car while their family member, significant other, or friend puts their ballot into a drop box.

Edit: Well, maybe one or two. It's a big country. But I agree with the overall strokes of what you've said.

boomboomsubban2• 4 years ago

Probably they're supposed to each go to the box, but even this report realizes how BS that would be and none of the ~30 pictures I looked at had anyone in the passenger seat.

woodruffw2• 4 years ago

Hum[1].

[1] https://www.aflegal.org/about#mission

defrost• 4 years ago

Seems like a storm in a teacup ...

It's common enough here (Australia) for one person to drop off a bunch of signed, sealed, and seperate votes in seperate envelopes to the local post office for the household .. sometimes even for the neighbours in rural areas.

Most of these USofA lawsuits seem to be about making it harder to vote and restricting the vote to a pool of people well off enough to ride over any inconvenience introduced by gatekeepers.

I scrolled through the photos, nothing leaps out as amiss other than many different people are dropping off two or three ballots ... suggesting they drove in and dropped off votes from family members and friends.

Pennsylvania County Sued over Illegal Ballot Drop Box Usage Captured on Camera [pdf]

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