By David Singer ——Bio and Archives--November 8, 2020
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"Find out the rules in your state. Some states have already started sending out mail ballots; see how to make sure yours counts. Absentee and mail ballots are two terms for the same thing, mostly used interchangeably. Barring a landslide, we may not have a result in the presidential election on Nov. 3."This panel was prominently positioned below a Washington Post article dated August 17th headlined: "State officials rush to shore up confidence in Nov. 3 election as voters express new fears about mail voting". The article itself contained the following statements:
"In 2019, an Oakland County clerk outside Detroit, Michigan was charged with illegally altering 193 absentee ballots. A Minneapolis, Minnesota man was charged with helping 13 others falsify absentee ballots ahead of the 2018 election. In 2017, a Dallas County, Texas man was convicted after 700 mail-in ballots were witnessed and signed by a fictitious person. And recently in North Carolina's 9th Congressional District race, a scheme was run to steal 1,200 absentee ballots and fill them out, in a race that was decided by only 900 votes."A 2019 Gallup poll found only 4 in 10 Americans expressed confidence in the honesty of elections in the country — while 6 did not. After what is going to transpire in the courts now—the number of distrustful voters is certain to be increased. [This article has been updated from the original published on September 26, 2020 - author].
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David Singer is an Australian Lawyer, a Foundation Member of the International Analyst Network and Convenor of Jordan is Palestine International—an organization calling for sovereignty of the West Bank and Gaza to be allocated between Israel and Jordan as the two successor States to the Mandate for Palestine. Previous articles written by him can be found at: jordanispalestine.blogspot.com