2020 U.S. Elections: Vote-By-Mail and Ballot Issues
Michelle Obama’s push for having faith in voting-by mail is naive – or deceptive. People are justified in their concerns for voting by mail.
Fraud is a totally legitimate concern – whether it be by ballot harvesters, double-voters, or lazy or manipulative mail-carriers.
Below is a pretty fair database to prove that. Alphabetized by State. We will be adding to this list regularly.
10/14/20: FBI, DHS: Hackers Have Accessed Election Systems
ALABAMA
ALASKA
ARIZONA
4/27/20: Attorney General Brnovich Asks Supreme Court to Rule on Ballot Harvesting Case
10/5/20: U.S. Supreme Court Reinstalls Arizona Ban on Ballot Harvesting as Ballots Hit Mailboxes
10/14/20: Tucson family has ballots stolen from mailbox then returned
10/14/20: Maricopa County protects ballots from a fire with a new vault
ARKANSAS
CALIFORNIA
12/4/18: ‘Ballot Harvesting’ Helped Flip Seven US House Races in California After Election Day
3/6/19: Is ballot harvesting legal in California? Yes, and that worries some Republicans
4/28/20: California Republicans prepared to match Democrats on ‘ballot harvesting.’ Then came coronavirus
5/19/20: California bill to ban ‘ballot harvesting’ dies in first committee
5/24/20: GOP groups sue California Gov. Newsom, claim vote-by-mail order is ‘brazen power grab’
7/13/20: California rejected 100,000 mail-in ballots because of mistakes
9/7/20: REPORT: Postal Worker Caught on Camera Defacing Trump Supporters Mail by Writing ‘BLM’
9/8/20: Truckloads of U.S. Mail Found Dumped in California. So November’s Election Will Be Totally Fine
9/8/20: Probe launched after bags of mail dumped in 2 spots in L.A. area
9/25/20: UPDATED: California Man Finds THOUSANDS of Unopened Ballots in Garbage Dumpster — Workers Quickly Try to Cover Them Up — County Says Returned Ballots from 2018?
9/29/20: Get the facts: Election ballots dumped in Sonoma County?
10/5/20: Silicon Valley Billionaires Fund Ballot Harvest Group Working In Swing States
10/8/20: Discarded Mail-in Ballots Found Outside ATM in California
10/9/20: ‘What Is Going On?’: Woman Says Mail-In Ballots Found Trashed In Santa Monica
10/9/20: Sheriff’s deputies investigating stolen mail, ballots found in Joshua Tree, Twentynine Palms
10/9/20: Watch – Man Caught On Video Stealing Mail, Ballots From California Mailboxes: Report
10/10/20: Yolo County mails incorrect election ballots to 581 voters. Here’s the plan to fix it
10/13/20: Some Bay Area voters receive multiple ballots ahead of election
10/14/20: Man said he discovered undelivered ballots scattered around in City Heights
COLORADO
10/24/18: Officials point fingers at each other after 60,000 Adams County ballots go missing
11/8/19: Sec. of State: USPS didn’t deliver 828 ballots to Denver and Aurora voters until Election Day
9/25/20: Colorado Secretary Of State Mails Postcards To Non-Citizens, Dead People Urging Them To Vote
2/21/20: Mesa County finds 574 uncounted ballots in ballot box from 2019 election
10/13/20: Ballots Found on Side of Road in Grand Junction
10/14/20: Report: Mail-in Ballots Stolen from Mailboxes in Colorado Springs
CONNECTICUT
9/15/20: Hundreds of absentee ballots returned after primary election in Enfield will not be counted
10/14/20: Vernon, state officials say voters will get correct ballots as both sides continue to trade blame over mailing error
DELAWARE
FLORIDA
11/8/18: Broward recount shenanigans: 46,000 Democrat votes “found” after election day, with more to come
11/11/18: Florida county collects uncounted ballots left in a mail facility
4/16/20: Mail-In ballots make voter fraud easy. I know because I did it.
6/25/20: RNC Gets Win in Florida Elections Lawsuit
6/29/20: More than 18,000 mail ballots not counted in Florida’s March presidential primary
9/1/20: Nearly 1,300 Mail-In Ballots Arrived After Election Day in Volusia
9/29/20: Thousands of mail ballots returned to Collier County election office
10/9/20: Mail-In Ballots In Florida Could Cause An Election Disaster
10/14/20: Skip the post office: Palm Beach County adds vans to take mail ballots
10/14/20: Many voters concerned over problems with mail-in ballots in Central Florida
GEORGIA
11/11/18: ‘5 Days after the election is over and another miracle … Shazam!’ More ballots found in Georgia by the Dems
7/10/20: Deceased cat gets voter registration application in the mail. (The application was not received from any government agency.)
9/8/20: 1,000 people double-voted in Georgia primary, says secretary of state
10/5/20: Federal judge says all absentee ballots need to be in on Election Day
10/11/20: Judge won’t order immediate switch to hand-marked ballots
HAWAII
8/14/20: Hawaii voters urged to return general election ballots early amid postal warnings
IDAHO
ILLINOIS
INDIANA
6/8/20: Vanderburgh Democratic activist Reed faces felony election fraud charge
10/1/20: Indiana joins others states accepting post-election ballots
10/13/20: Indiana mail-in ballots must be received by noon on Election Day, appeals court rules
IOWA
2/9/17: Thousands of uncounted ballots found months after Election Day
10/11/20: Guthrie County auditor mistakenly mailed voters ballots without secrecy envelopes — but they can still be counted
KANSAS
KENTUCKY
10/17/20: More than 100 undelivered absentee ballots found in Kentucky dumpster
10/17/20: Kentucky: U.S. Postal Employee ‘No Longer Employed’ After 112 Ballots Found in Dumpster
LOUISIANA
MAINE
10/1/20: Maine court cites voter fraud concern in ruling against push for ballot harvesting, absentee extension
MARYLAND
5/21/20: South Carolina election ballots reportedly found in Maryland this week
9/25/20: MD election leaders outline ballot security measures after ballots found in PA dumpster
10/8/20: Suspected ballot harvesting in Maryland undermines public’s faith in our elections
MASSACHUSETTS
7/2/20: A pivotal batch of mail votes went missing. Fraud!? Town is so sorry.
7/7/20: Mass. among first states extending vote-by-mail expansion to November
9/4/20: Massachusetts: Thousands of Mail-in Ballots Found Days After the Election
9/12/20: Franklin Town Clerk Resigns After Thousands of Ballots Found Uncounted
9/30/20: Nearly 18,000 mail-in ballots rejected in state primary
MICHIGAN
6/16/20: Former Top Michigan Elections Official Slams Mass Mail-In Vote
8/15/20: Michigan Rejects 846 Mailed Ballots ‘Because the Voter Was Dead’
8/20/20: Canvassers demand answers after 72% of Detroit’s absentee ballot counts were off
9/18/20: Judge orders Michigan to accept mail-in ballots for 2 weeks after Election Day
9/19/20: Mail-in voting scheme: Ballot harvesting in Michigan, mail-in balloting deadlines extended
10/12/20: Mobile effort bringing voter registration, absentee ballots to Muskegon neighborhoods
10/13/20: Mail stolen from Massachusetts mailbox, Bill Galvin’s office investigating if any ballots affected
10/16/20: Michigan Court of Appeals: Ballots Must Arrive by Election Day; 14-Day Extension Overturned
MINNESOTA
12/3/08: More Franken Ballots Found!
1/5/09: Franken Scores: More Ballots Found In Democratic Stronghold
7/20/10: Al Franken May Have Won His Senate Seat Through Voter Fraud
9/23/20: Minnesota Sued Over Mail-In Ballot Ruling – State says it will accept ballots for 8 days after election, even without postmark
9/27/20: Ilhan Omar Connected Cash-For-Ballots Voter Fraud Scheme Corrupts Elections
9/28/20: Minneapolis police investigating ballot harvesting claims amid allegations surrounding Omar
9/29/20: Ballot harvesting currently restricted in Minnesota
10/10/20: Private Security Company Seeking Armed Veterans to Guard Minnesota Polling Sites
10/12/20: Federal Judge Upholds Minnesota’s Deadline Extension For Counting Ballots
MISSISSIPPI
9/25/20: Absentee ballots stored in locked vault, Mississippi election officials say
MISSOURI
3/10/20: Jackson County voter told to throw ballot in the trash after voting
10/1/20: Pettis County reports missing ballots found
10/5/20: Silicon Valley Billionaires Fund Ballot Harvest Group Working In Swing States
10/5/20: DANGER: St. Louis County Executive Sam Page Connected to Ballot-Harvesting Specialists Who Are Also Operating in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania
MONTANA
10/10/20: Justice Kagan blocks effort to stop Montana from mailing ballots to all voters
NEBRASKA
9/30/20: Nebraska officials warn against ‘ballot harvesting’
NEVADA
4/14/20: Ex-Clinton lawyer threatens to sue Nevada unless ballot harvesting permitted
5/14/20: Ballots Found In Nevada Trash Cans As Dems Sue To Eliminate Signature Verification
5/26/20: Ex-Nevada AG describes ballots ‘piled up in apartments and trash cans and in hallways’ due to mail-in voting
6/1/20: GOP accuses Clark County of ‘shady’ deal with Democrats in lawsuit
8/6/20: Nevada Sent More Than 200K Mail-In Primary Ballots to Wrong Addresses
8/7/20: Nightmare. More Than 200,000 Nevada Ballots Found to Be ‘Undeliverable’
8/15/20: New voting laws revive fights over ‘ballot harvesting’
8/18/20: Nevada’s Secretary of State seeks regulation on newly allowed ‘ballot harvesting’ practice
9/25/20: Democrat Insider: Anti-Trump Postal Workers in GOP Neighborhoods Throw Mail-In Ballots in the Garbage
NEW HAMPSHIRE
10/9/20: ‘You Are Needed’ — New Hampshire Residents Receive Unidentified Mailers with Absentee Ballot Applications (ballots were not mailed by any government agency)
NEW JERSEY
5/5/20: Stacks of mail-in ballots left at Paterson apartment buildings
6/17/20: Bag of undelivered mail found in Paterson
6/26/20: Two Politicians Hit with Multiple Voter Fraud Charges Connected to Mail-In Ballots
6/26/20: “Myth” busted? NJ AG indicts four over mail-in ballot fraud; “hundreds” of mail-in ballots discovered (updated)
6/27/20: Charges Filed After 1 In 5 Mail-In Ballots Found To Be Fraudulent In NJ City Council Election
6/29/20: Massive Mail-In Voter Fraud Identified in New Jersey — Democrats Caught Harvesting Ballots in Bundles, Refuse to Step Down from Office
8/19/20: New Local Election Ordered in N.J. After Mail-In Voter Fraud Charges
8/20/20: President Trump’s campaign sues New Jersey’s governor over his unilateral decision to force vote-by-mail
8/29/20: Confessions of a voter fraud: I was a master at fixing mail-in ballots (New Jersey)
9/14/20: 1,666 uncounted July primary ballots found in Sussex County
10/5/20: SCANDAL: More Missing Mail In Ballots Found, This Time In New Jersey Dumpster
10/6/20: Nearly 7,000 voters in N.J. town received incorrect ballots
NEW MEXICO
NEW YORK
5/21/20: Close Results In Paterson Vote Plagued By Fraud Claims; Over 3K Ballots Seemingly Set Aside
7/10/20: Uncounted ballots suddenly found in Herkimer County
7/20/20: New York’s Mail-Vote Disaster. Almost a month after the election, nobody knows who won.
9/29/20: Is Mass Mail-In Safe? As Many as 100,000 New Yorkers Received Absentee Ballots with Wrong Name
10/9/20: I-Team: Address Mix-Ups, Affidavit Ballots Often Behind Voting Problems
10/16/20: New York Man Charged for Requesting Mail-In Ballots for Dead Mother
NORTH CAROLINA
2/18/20: Top North Carolina election official alleges illegal ballot harvesting effort in key House race
9/3/20: 19 aliens charged with voter fraud in North Carolina following ICE investigation
9/22/20: North Carolina To Count Absentee Ballots Up To Nine Days After Election
NORTH DAKOTA
OHIO
9/25/20: What happens to the ballots once the elections board counts the votes? Election Truth
10/1/16: Thousands Of Fake Ballot Slips Found Marked For Hillary Clinton
10/9/20: 50,000 Ohio Voters To Receive New Absentee Ballots After Error Found
10/14/20: Kaptur, Gerken call on Ohio secretary of state to investigate regarding absentee ballots distributed by Midwest Direct
10/14/20: In Cleveland, Homeless Get A Helping Hand With Mail-In Ballots
OKLAHOMA
2020: Oklahoma Law – Absentee Ballot Harvesting
OREGON
10/19/18: Discarded election ballots found in Northeast Portland
3/7/19: Uncounted Oregon votes expose election vulnerability
PENNSYLVANIA
3/10/20: Democratic Party official admits to stuffing ballot boxes in Philadelphia elections
6/2/20: Early reports of ballot scanning issues ‘scattered’ across Lancaster County in Pa. presidential primary
7/24/20: Indictment of Former Democrat Congressman Widens Voter Fraud Case in Philadelphia
9/18/20: Court sides with Pennsylvania Democrats, mail-in ballots can be counted three days after Election Day
9/22/20: ‘2 Envelopes Or It Doesn’t Count’: Pennsylvanians’ Mail-In Ballots Will Be Thrown Out If They Don’t Follow This Rule
9/24/20: FBI investigates ballots for Trump found in Pennsylvania garbage
9/24/20: DOJ orders Pennsylvania county to change ballot practices after ‘troubling’ findings
9/27/20: Mail Sorter Caught ‘Mistakenly’ Throwing Military Mail-In Ballots For Trump In The Trash
10/1/20: VOTE PANIC Philadelphia voting machine controls STOLEN from warehouse days after pro-Trump ballots found trashed in PA
10/5/20: Silicon Valley Billionaires Fund Ballot Harvest Group Working In Swing States
10/5/20: Philadelphia’s Mobile Mail-In Ballot System Just Another Name for Ballot Harvesting
10/8/20: 58,000 mail-in ballots missing in Pennsylvania
10/11/20: Found! 60,000 lost ballots for a Republican County in a battleground state
10/14/20: Nearly 29,000 Voters Received Incorrect Mail-In Ballots in Pennsylvania County
10/14/20: Trash Bags of Undelivered Mail Found Outside Postal Worker’s Home
10/16/20: 370K Pennsylvania mail-in ballot applications rejected: Report- Many residents may have mistakenly sent in more than one ballot request
RHODE ISLAND
7/15/20: RI looks into undeliverable ballot applications and dead voters
9/1/20: Providence housing complex at center of ‘ballot harvesting’ allegations
9/3/20: Rhode Island’s Senior Ballot Harvest
SOUTH CAROLINA
5/21/20: South Carolina election ballots reportedly found in Maryland this week
10/5/20: SCOTUS reinstates South Carolina witness requirement for absentee ballots
SOUTH DAKOTA
TENNESSEE
9/30/20: Biden’s Texas Political Director Implicated in Massive Mail-In Ballot Harvesting Scheme in Harris County
TEXAS
1/17/20: A ballot box found weeks after Election Day has flipped a $569 million school bond vote in Midland
5/8/20: Alleged Ballot Harvesting in Harris County Prompts Investigation Request by Secretary of State
6/28/20: Caught on camera: Postal worker dumped GOP candidate’s mailers in dumpster
9/29/20: Affidavits Allege Texas Democrat Officials Involved In Mail-In Ballot Harvesting Scheme; Democrats Deny
9/29/20: Harris County Republicans file Supreme Court complaint alleging ballot harvesting operation
10/2/20: More than 100 applications for mail-in ballots found in SW Houston dumpster
10/5/20: These Fort Worth election workers will check mail-in ballots for improper signatures
10/8/20: Carrollton, Texas, mayoral candidate arrested after police find forged mail-in ballots
10/10/20: Federal Judge Overturns Texas Governor’s Order Allowing Only One Ballot Drop Box Per County
10/10/20: ‘It’s uncharted waters’: How one CT town clerk is handling the influx of absentee ballots
10/11/20: Galveston County precinct receives mail-in ballots with missing countywide races
10/13/20: Texas Dem Mayoral Candidate Charged With Voter Fraud After Allegedly Applying for 84 Mail-In Ballots
10/14/20: Texas GOP Challenges Curbside, Drive-Thru Voting in Lawsuit
UTAH
9/5/20: Utah beefs up ban on ballot ‘harvesting’ to silence critics of voting by mail
10/14/20: Utah: County Mails Over 13,000 Ballots with Missing Signature Line
VERMONT
VIRGINIA
4/6/20: More than 500,000 Virginia voters were mailed absentee applications with incorrect info (and were not mailed by any government agency either)
10/5/20: Six Richmond-area post offices report tampered mailboxes early Monday; could contain election ballots
WASHINGTON
3/2/20: Thousands of WA Ballots Tossed as Voters Refuse to Disclose Party
WEST VIRGINIA
5/26/20: Mail Man Charged With Attempted Election Fraud, Changed Mail-In Ballots That Were Given Out Due To Pandemic, Feds Say
10/1/20: West Virginia mail carrier guilty of election fraud after altering ballot requests to Republican
WISCONSIN
4/6/20: By a 5–4 Vote, SCOTUS Lets Wisconsin Throw Out Tens of Thousands of Ballots
4/8/20: Missing absentee ballots, tied to voters in Oshkosh and Appleton
4/9/20: Wisconsin is discovering problems with absentee ballots, including hundreds that were never delivered
4/9/20: Inside Wisconsin’s Election Mess: Thousands of Missing or Nullified Ballots
4/9/20: Missing Absentee Ballots Are Being Found After Tuesday’s Election
5/3/20: Unexpected outcome in Wisconsin: Tens of thousands of ballots that arrived after voting day were counted, thanks to court decisions
5/19/20: Thousands of absentee ballots in Wisconsin weren’t counted because of mailing problems and tech glitches
6/18/20: Ballot harvesting, voter fraud splits Wisconsin Election Commission
6/22/20: Questions About Election Commission Memo Regarding Ballot Harvesting
7/11/20: Report: Wisconsin Election Officials Sent Absentee Ballots Out At Last Minute
9/21/20: Judge extends Wisconsin absentee cutoff 6 days after election
9/24/20: Ballots Included In Trays Of Mail Found Dumped in Wisconsin Ditch
9/25/20: Out-of-town ballots found in Wausau drop box
9/30/20: MICHELLE MALKIN- Who’s funding shady ballot harvesting schemes? (Madison, Wisconsin)
10/1/20: Republicans to monitor ballot harvesting events
10/2/20: Updated: U.S. Postal Service investigates mail, including absentee ballots, found along road in Outagamie County
10/5/20: Silicon Valley Billionaires Fund Ballot Harvest Group Working In Swing States
10/9/20: Appeals Court rejects extension of Wisconsin absentee ballot deadline, reversing lower court
10/14/20: Voting rights group asks Supreme Court to let late mail ballots in Wisconsin count
WYOMING
PERTINENT ARTICLES ON ELECTION BALLOT AND MAIL ISSUES
11/2/10: Democrats and Union Officials Miraculously “Finding” Lost “Ballot Boxes In Their Car Trunks
3/11/20: GOP expands battle to stop Democrat attacks on ballot security laws
3/23/20: Pelosi ‘Stimulus’ Bill Imposes Nationwide ‘Ballot Harvesting’ Without ‘Any Limit’
4/8/20: Coronavirus voting reforms — Democrats repackage old left-wing plans for today’s crisis
4/10/20: Federal Data: 16.4M Mail-In Ballots Went Missing in 2016, 2018 Elections
4/21/20: 15 Election Results That Were Thrown Out Because of Fraudulent Mail-In Ballots
4/24/20: 28 Million Mail-In Ballots Went Missing in Last Four Elections
5/7/20: Supreme Court Eyes Ballot Harvesting Case That Could Affect Election Integrity Across Nation
5/27/20: Twitter puts warning label on a Trump tweet on mail-in ballots, despite experts backing up Trump’s concerns
7/16/20: Four Stolen Elections: The Vulnerabilities of Absentee and Mail-In Ballots
7/24/20: Vote-by-mail experiment reveals potential problems within postal voting system ahead of November election
7/31/20: These States Invalidate Mail-In Ballots After Election Day
8/16/20: Imagine ‘Antifa Ballot-Harvesters.’ It Isn’t Hard To Do.
8/18/20: Another Post Office Election Challenge: Making Sure Ballots Are Postmarked
9/7/20: Legal foundation finds thousands of double votes via mail-in ballots in 2016, 2018
9/8/20: More than 550,000 mail ballots rejected so far: Here’s how to make sure your vote gets counted
9/9/20: Ballot Harvesting Preys on Elderly, Nursing Homes
9/16/20: Watchdog identifies 50,000 double-voters, 350,000 dead persons still on rolls
9/24/20: 350K Dead Registrants, Ballots Counted 9 Days After Election Day: What the Heck Is Going On?
9/26/20: Michelle Obama insists it’s ‘not true’ that mail-in ballots will be lost
10/2/20: Protect Elderly Votes Project Aims to Thwart ‘Ballot Harvesting’ Fraud
