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The contest between the Republican Mark Harris and the Democrat Dan McCready appeared to have been decided, albeit by a small margin, in Harris’s favor on Election Night. Now voters will remain without congressional representation until a new election is held, following shocking revelations of a brazen scheme to break the law and swing the election using absentee ballots.
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- The 2005 report of the Commission on Federal Election Reform, organized by the Center for Democracy and Election Management at American University, noted that “… [mail-in voting] raises concerns about privacy, as citizens voting at home may come under pressure to vote for certain candidates, and it increases the risk of fraud … While there is little evidence of fraud in Oregon, where the entire state votes by mail, absentee balloting in other states has been one of the major sources of fraud.”
-In their 2007 observation of the Swiss federal elections, the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe noted that in “previous years some issues had been encountered at old people’s homes and nursing facilities, where party activists would reportedly gather and misuse the postal ballots of others” and went on to observe that the “fact that communes are given significant flexibility when to mail ballots, and to pay or not pay for return postage — even within the same canton — may mean that some voters have more advantage than others in the voting process,” describing a level of decentralization analogous to that of the United States.
- During the workshop Analysis of Issues and Challenges of E-Voting in the UK, held April 12-13, 2012 at the University of Cambridge, electoral systems researcher Dylan Clarke explained that “Postal voting fraud is generally possible because genuine voters can be coerced into voting for a particular candidate. This stems from the removal of the guarantee of privacy when voting, as there is no control over where the voter will fill in the ballot, or who may be with them.”
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