Reporter from Las Vegas voted 8 times, and no one noticed
We report the article of a reporter from Las Vegas, Victor Joecks, who managed to vote 8 times in Clark County (the county where the well-known city of entertainment is located) through the postal vote, verified only with the signature. Let's see what it says:
Clark County officials accepted my signature on eight ballot return envelopes during the general election. It is further proof that signature verification is an imperfect security measure. For months, election officials have been telling Nevada residents not to worry about ballots piling up in apartment trash cans or being sent to wrong addresses.
"Discarded ballot papers cannot be withdrawn and voted on by anyone," an information sheet from the secretary of state would say.
"All ballot papers must be signed on the ballot return envelope." This signature is used to authenticate the voter and confirm that it was the voter and not another person who returned the ballot ” .
I wanted to test this claim by simulating what might happen if someone returned cards that don't belong to them. Many people have had this opportunity. Billy Geurin, a 10-year-old Las Vegas resident, found five cards thrown in his apartment. A reader emailed me a photo of a pile of roadside mail, which included loose cards. There are numerous photos of similar examples on social media.
Nine people participated in this test. I wrote their names in italics using my normal handwriting. They then copied my version of their name onto their electoral envelope. This two-step process was necessary to ensure that no laws were broken.
On Monday I asked Clark County Chancellor Joe Gloria about this scenario. If the cards signed by someone else "had arrived, we would still have the ability to evaluate the signature we can rely on for identity," he said. Asked if he was sure the safeguard would identify those cards, he said, "I'm sure the process worked throughout the process."
He was wrong. Eight of the nine cards were examined. In other words, verifying signatures had an 89 percent failure rate in collecting mismatched signatures.
This could explain how a card "signed" by Rosemarie Hartle, who died in 2017, passed the verification of signatures, as reported by 8 News Now. It might explain how longtime Las Vegas resident Jill Stokke was told the signature on her card matched, even though she said she never received it.
No identity verification, bad postal vote, chance to vote for others. this was the vote in the USA: practically a caricature of democracy.
Thanks to our Telegram channel you can stay updated on the publication of new articles of Economic Scenarios.
The Las Vegas Journalist article voted 8 times, and no one noticed it comes from ScenariEconomici.it .
This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/giornalista-di-las-vegas-ha-votato-8-volte-e-nessuno-se-ne-e-accorto/ on Sat, 14 Nov 2020 13:48:59 +0000.