Part 2 in this “On Your Honor” series broached the topic of voting by mail as perhaps the weakest link in the “on your honor” chain of threats to election integrity in California.

The concerns mentioned there are just the tip of the iceberg. There are further considerations:

Counties utilize the postal service to mail a ballot to all persons on the voter rolls. Protestations aside, the postal service cannot provide the reliable chain of custody necessary to protect the integrity of the system.

• Most mail carriers and postal workers are honest, but like the population in general, a few are not. This sad reality begs the questions:

   

  • If a postal worker decides to destroy or not deliver ballots, will anyone find out, and if yes, how? 

    
    

  • How does the post office prevent ballots from being stolen, or delivered to locations where they end up in the wrong hands?    

• Many ballots arrive at dormitories, nursing homes, and homeless shelters. Ideally, the staff at these locations distribute the ballots correctly, making sure they get to the right people, and return unopened the ballots of people who no longer live there. But if bad actors intercept or destroy ballots before they can reach the legitimate voter, will anyone know?

• Problems can also occur at residences when family members or others have passed away, moved, or cannot vote for whatever reason. California essentially ignores the possibility that someone could fill out the ballot of a dead parent, departed roommate, mentally incapacitated family member, or a family member who simply does not care to vote. And because the state does a poor job of verifying signatures, undiscovered forgery becomes a real probability.

Why? Because the state has created an entire system that operates outside the view of citizens and observers. 

This On Your Honor system BEGS to be manipulated.

Please stay tuned for the rest of this On Your Honor article series.

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