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COUNTER-POINT: Concerns about mail-in ballots and voter fraud

The opinion published in the June 3 issue of the Gazette, titled ”Dangerous Rhetoric,” is what she wrote about mail voting criticizing Nancy Churchill’s concerns that vote-by-mail leads to voter fraud shows Ms. Vaughn either does not recognize the issues with vote-by-mail or chooses to ignore them.

The days of the secret ballot are gone with vote-by-mail. First, there is nothing to prevent the person who opens and counts the ballots from looking at the name on the mail on the envelope and then looking at their ballot.

The larger loss of secrecy is when political operatives can go door-to-door...

 

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