Democrats have been telling us for years now that mail-in voting is secure. I guess we’re just supposed to take it on their word and on faith that it’s all above board, but sorry, we can’t do that. We know what’s what. Democrats can pretend all they want that mass mail-in voting is secure, but that doesn’t change the facts. Just look at the 2020 election.
Let’s not forget that a 2023 survey from Rasmussen Reports, conducted with The Heartland Institute, found that of the 30% of likely U.S. voters who cast an absentee or mail-in ballot in the 2020 election, 19% admitted that a friend or family member filled out part or all of that ballot on their behalf. Another 17% admitted they voted in a state where they were no longer a permanent resident. Every one of those practices is illegal, and they reveal the flaws in the system.
And Democrats still want you to believe mail-in voting is safe and secure. But when it comes to election fraud, mail-in voting is their ticket. And the latest example comes out Wisconsin.
They literally wanted mail-in voters to get a do-over vote.
Literally.
Luckily, their efforts failed.
A Wisconsin judge on Wednesday rejected a Democrat effort to let absentee voters who had already returned their ballots for the state primary void them and cast new ones. Dane County Circuit Judge David Conway denied the party's request for a temporary restraining order and refused to order the Wisconsin Elections Commission to rescind its guidance against ballot changes.
Here's why Democrats wanted a do-over so badly. More than 117,000 voters had already returned absentee ballots by Wednesday, and the party feared many had cast them for candidates who no longer belonged in the race. Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez, once the frontrunner for governor, dropped out on July 17 amid a campaign-finance scandal. Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley dropped out on July 8, then jumped back in on July 18. Rodriguez and former state economic development director Missy Hughes, who quit the race in June, still appear on the ballot.
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Republicans have long warned that this is exactly the kind of flaw baked into early voting, and Wisconsin just handed them Exhibit A. On July 9, the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission voted 4-2 to instruct the roughly 2,000 local clerks who run Wisconsin's elections that absentee voters cannot change a ballot once they've returned it, a rarely used process known as ballot spoiling.
Three voters filed a lawsuit — which the Democrats backed, of course — arguing that state law allows people to change their minds about an absentee ballot before it's counted on Election Day. Eduardo Castro, an attorney representing the voters, argued in court that "voters across Wisconsin will be disenfranchised" if they weren't allowed to change their ballots.
Judge Conway didn’t buy it. He ruled that "the unambiguous language of the statute does not allow a voter to spoil an absentee ballot after it is returned," and found the commission's guidance to clerks consistent with the law.
"The judge got it right,” Don Millis, the Republican chair of the elections commission, said. “The law is clear. Once a voter returns an absentee ballot to the clerk, the voter cannot decide to change his or her vote. The law does not permit do-overs."
Make no mistake about it, Democrats fought for that do-over to shield themselves from the consequences of their own campaign chaos. Mail-in voting hands them the loophole every single time, and Wisconsin just proved it again. So the next time a liberal insists mail-in voting is beyond reproach, don't believe a word of it.
