My wife's absentee ballot hasn't arrived. We sent it in a month ago, and if it doesn't arrive this afternoon, it's pretty clear that we won't be voting absentee.
Several things could have happened.
1) It might not have arrived in the mail to the election office.
2) They lost it when it got there
3) They're overwhelmed
4) Someone stole the ballot
5) Someone stole the ballot and sent it in without her signature.
We'll assume it's 1-3, and at this point, I'll have to rearrange our schedule so she can indeed go out an vote. I know a second person who hasn't received a ballot, but he's in Florida, and won't be able to make it back by Tuesday. There's at least one disenfranchised vote.
Why is this important? First, there is of course the issue of voters being able to vote. We hear about disenfranchisement all the time, but it seems to be more important for those who are homeless, poor, or mentally deficient than for those who hold down jobs, own homes, and pay taxes.
And of course, it's a deliberate strategy by the Left, who uses groups like ProVote, ACORN, and SEIU to register large number of people as voters (living, dead, and imaginary) in order to overwhelm the voter rolls. In addition to creating a gaping hole in our election system that can be easily manipulated for vote fraud, voter registration fraud also gums up the works for legitimate voters.
I wonder how many people at the St Louis County Board of Elections are involved in working with voter registration, and if they pulled people from absentee ballots to deal with the overflow?
All the more reason to make it illegal for anyone to "register" voters except the voters themselves. Making it easy to register is making the system more difficult to control, and the result is many voters lose their opportunity to cast their ballots because the administration of voting is faulty. State officials like Robin Carnahan say the system is fine - that counties where registrations outnumber the populace are not problems. Plus, it's not her fault, as she doesn't have the legal right to cleanse the rolls.
She does have a platform, and a bully pulpit, and has had the last four years to put out guidelines, work with state legislators, and pressure the governor to come up with money so local election boards could clean their rolls. She doesn't of course. It's more important to run fake press conferences with local union members complaining about Voter ID than it is to actually run a clean system.
Missouri isn't the only state with this problem. Ohio's voting irregularities are horrendous. Obama campaign workers from out of state have been caught voting illegally (their job was to register people, so they added themselves), dead people vote in Cleveland, and of course, there was the court case where Jennifer Brunner says she also can't clean the rolls because it's too hard.
It's clear the Democrats now see the SecState office as key to controlling the vote. How very Stalinesque of them. Just ask Politico, which details how rich California liberals are giving money to capture SoS offices across the country.
With a Democrat now in charge of the offices, which oversee and administer their state’s elections, the party is better positioned than in the previous elections to advance traditional Democratic interests —such as increasing voter registration and boosting turnout — rather than Republican priorities such as stamping out voter fraud.
Get that? Vote fraud isn't an issue.
The effort began in 2006 when a group of liberal California activists created an independent 527 group designed to elect secretaries of state.
The Secretary of State Project ran independent ads of its own and ensured that donors — many of whom were affiliated with Democracy Alliance, a network of wealthy fundraisers that channels money to liberal causes across the country — knew which candidates deserved donations.
So - is it fair now to say that Robin Carnahan is funded by wealthy out-of-state interests?
Sure it is.
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