{"id":37530,"date":"2020-10-12T10:13:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T14:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/?p=37530"},"modified":"2020-10-12T10:13:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T14:13:47","slug":"are-we-ready-for-mail-in-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2020\/10\/12\/are-we-ready-for-mail-in-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Are We Ready for Mail-In Voting?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asked about the possibility of \u201celection night chaos,\u201d Project 21<\/a><\/strong> member Rich Holt<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 a campaign strategist by trade \u2013 said it could happen.\u00a0 But he assured Newsmax TV host Emma Rechenberg that he thinks the election will be decided<\/a><\/strong> by the beginning of December. This would guarentee a peaceful continuity of government on January 20, 2021.<\/p>\n

In an interview on Newsmax TV\u2019s \u201cNational Report,\u201d Rechenberg asked Rich why \u201cthe idea of accepting American election results has become such a heated topic\u201d these days. Rich blamed the faulty assumption that alternatives to in-person voting are inherently trustworthy:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s because mail-in ballots are so terrible that the Europeans abandoned<\/a><\/strong> them back in the 70s. It was rampant with fraud and corruption.<\/p>\n

Here in the United States, we have a serious problem with making sure that the ballots \u2013 when they get in \u2013 are actually counted. And the absentee balloting<\/a><\/strong>\/vote-by-mail<\/a><\/strong> states \u2013 they always have these problems with fraud.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In trying to pinpoint the potential problems with mail-in voting, Rich noted that procedural problems will likely garner the most media attention in close contests:<\/p>\n

I think the problem that we have is not with the post office or the mailing. It\u2019s only two percent of the volume of the post office.<\/p>\n

The problem we\u2019re going to have is: do signatures match? Are they gonna throw out the ballots?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As states try to meet their legal deadlines for reporting election results, there will be inevitable challenges. When asked about Hillary Clinton’s\u00a0assertion<\/a><\/strong> that Joe Biden \u201cshould not concede under any circumstances,\u201d Rich said there is an obvious double-standard for pretty much anything liberals do. That, he said, needs to be taken into account considering the sanctity of an election process:<\/p>\n

[Y]ou\u2019re allowed to be mad if you\u2019re a liberal. You\u2019re allowed to fight if you\u2019re a liberal. You can, you know, throw a Molotov cocktail at a police car and blow it up if you\u2019re a liberal. But, if you\u2019re a conservative, you\u2019re an evil villain.<\/p>\n

The fact is they want to rig the election through mail-in voting, and there\u2019s not really much we can do except trust the mechanisms we have in place to make sure we have a fair system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He looked to one aspect of the process \u2013 one that liberals currently hate \u2013 as its savior:<\/p>\n

I think the Electoral College will do that just fine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n