Nearly 15 Million Mail-in-Ballots Unaccounted for in 2020 Election, Report Says

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Nearly 15 Million Mail-in-Ballots Unaccounted for in 2020 Election, Report Says

August 18, 2021

In the November 2020 general election, whose chaotic results have been vigorously disputed, almost 15 million mail-in ballots went unaccounted for, according to a good-government group that focuses on electoral integrity.  The research brief by the Indianapolis-based Public Interest Legal Foundation... various U.S. states "hastily pushed  traditionally in-person voters to mail ballots while, at the same time,  trying to learn how to even administer such a scenario."  PILF describes itself as "the nation's only public interest law firm  dedicated wholly to election integrity," existing "to assist states and  others to aid the cause of election integrity and fight against  lawlessness in American elections."

Former Justice Department civil rights attorney J. Christian Adams,  now president of PILF, said the results don't bode well for mail-in  voting. "These figures detail how the 2020 push to mail voting needs to be a one-year experiment," Adams said in a statement.  ...

Mail in ballots apparently go back a long way

Federal data compilations show that during the 2020 election, there were 14.7 million ballots whose whereabouts were deemed "unknown" by election officials, according to the brief... In the 2020 election, there were 14.7 million "unknown" ballots,  along with 1.1 million undeliverable ballots, and 560,814 rejected  ballots. PILF put these figures in perspective by noting that President Joe  Biden carried Arizona by 10,457 votes, yet Maricopa County, the state's  largest county, reportedly sent ballots to 110,092 outdated or wrong  addresses. The post-voting audit process in Maricopa is still in  progress. The scenario roughly repeated itself in Nevada, a state where Biden prevailed by 33,596 votes, even though Clark County "bounced" 93,279 ballots.

"The lesson is clear: increased reliance on mass mail voting must correlate with aggressive voter registration list maintenance," the brief concludes. The report notes that many counties across the country had large numbers of "unknown" ballots. In California, Los Angeles County had 1,491,459 such ballots,  followed by Orange County (482,940), Riverside County (454,911), San  Diego County (317,614), San Bernardino County (274,937), Santa Clara  County (251,840), and Sacramento County (241,367). Clark County, Nevada, had 724,708 such ballots. Essex County, New  Jersey, had 248,290 unknown ballots, and Maricopa County had 229,123  ballots in the unknown category.

Nearly 15 Million Mail-in-Ballots Unaccounted for in 2020 Election, Report Says
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