You would assume that our current voting and election process may be trustworthy and powerful with all the modern technology. In Nevada, a Clark County election official was required to clean up the voting floats after filing a lawsuit.
The practice of immediately mailing a ballot to every effective registered voter in 2020 has become the standard after a once-failed test. The ballot-sending automatically in large numbers sounds wonderful. The reality is that it sent vote to remove clubs, games, and restaurants.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation, for which I am leader, captured thousands of business names that were listed as names for voting in Nevada. Some of these names included a , Sonic Drive-In, the Las Vegas Airport, a 7-Eleven petrol station, vacant lots, Binion’s game, and the Larry Flynt Hustler team.
We gave Clark County Registrar of Voters Lorena Portillo this information, including photos of the places where it appeared persons did not live, along with this information. We only wanted her to look into these addresses and, if her company determined that no one lived there, make changes to the voter list before the mail came in for the 2024 presidential election ballots.  ,
We waited for a reply, but days of crickets from Clark County forced us to record a , lawsuit. As a direct result of this dispute,  , Clark County investigated and made corrections , to the voter move — ensuring email ballots will not be sent to business addresses where no one lives.
Nevada’s automated vote-by-mail structure has previously had issues. According to , state information, in 2020 more than 92, 000 mail ballots in Clark County single were returned as unworkable, meaning they had a bad or outdated address. To place this number into view, President Joe Biden simply carried the condition by a little more than 33, 000 seats.
After all, it was during an extraordinary crisis, so you might want to give Nevada election authorities a move for the first time they attempted to email an vote. However, points got worse in 2022. In the 2022 exams,  , more than 95, 000 , mail ballots nationwide were unworkable. The country’s key U. S. Senate contest was decided by less than 8, 000 seats.
These kinds of figures do n’t scream confidence in the electoral process. They make me long for the days before the U.S. Postal Service would keep vote locked up in polling sites. Almost 100, 000 live votes going to addresses where the vote does not reside are not only a source of concern for election security, but there are also concerns about email ballots putting off election results.
When I was a child, I can still recall when we would be able to predict the future president’s address on vote day. However, that golden age of elections seems to be around. Now we have” Election Month”, or more precisely, times. The main reason Americans will probably go to bed on election day without knowing whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris will be the next president is a mass vote-by-mail .
Thanks to the growth of email election, some says, including Nevada, now accept email votes that arrive after Election Day. When ballots may appear days and, in some states, actually weeks after election night, it’s difficult to call an election. ” Election Month” undermines the consent of the governed. Election results may be delayed as long as state like Nevada push their votes to the message and take mail ballots that come with them after Election Day.
The worst vote system in the United States is programmed vote-by-mail.  , Surely it is n’t worth it.
Previous Justice Department counsel and current director of the United States Commission for Civil Rights, J. Christian Adams is the leader of the Public Interest Legal Foundation.