Going Postal with Elections Kills Voting Rights
Article subtitle:
A decentralized and ordered system of voting is the best way to protect our rights as we have come to understand them.
Article publisher:
American Greatness
Article date:
6 June 2020
Article category:
National News
Medium
Article Body:
Check out the two post offices that went up in flames during recent rioting in Minneapolis. Those fires will serve as a fitting metaphor for election integrity if we end up conducting all elections through the United States Postal Service.
Self-described progressives are pushing hard for doing just that nationally, along with more ballot harvesting, elimination of signature matching, and other fraud-inducing measures.
That would be a disaster for voter rights, as well as for election integrity. The issue here is not about having an option to vote by mail. Lots of states—and counting—have given that choice for a long time.
The real issue is that the goal is to abolish all in-person voting. This means abolishing everyone’s right to vote by official ballot with guaranteed secrecy at one’s local polling place on election day. Oregonians lost that right when their state went all postal in 1998. Since then, four other states have gone totally postal: Washington, Colorado, Utah, and Hawaii. California is poised to be next. The agenda, clearly, is to make mail-in ballots a permanent requirement in every state, not a choice.
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