When Voters Admit to Mail-in Fraud
Heartland/Rasmussen poll reveals stunning honesty from voters who admit they engaged in illegal balloting in 2020. What to do? EPEC Team has a plan for transparency and accuracy in elections.
In this issue of EPEC Team newsletter:
The Poll That Stunned with the Truth about Ballot Fraud in 2020
EPEC Team Monitors Election Data. It Costs Close to $15,000.
Our crowdfunding link is live! https://www.givesendgo.com/EPECTeamData
Still Asking about Mystery Voters in VA’s General Election
When Voters Admit They Cheated in 2020: The Heartland Institute and Rasmussen released polling results today that are stunning (at least, for those who didn’t already document all this for years).
Their release states:
One-in-five voters who cast mail-in ballots during the 2020 presidential election admit to taking part in at least one kind of voter fraud, according to a new release of polling results from the Heartland Institute and Rasmussen.
Some of the findings include the following:
17% of mail-in voters admit that in 2020 they voted in a state where they are ‘no longer a permanent resident.’
21% of mail-in voters admitted that they filled out a ballot for a friend or family member
17% of mail-in voters said they signed a ballot for a friend or family member “with or without his or her permission”
8% of likely voters say they were offered “pay” or a “reward” for voting in 2020
All told, the polling results show, “voter fraud was widespread in the 2020 election, especially among those who cast mail-in ballots.”
For many of our partners in Election Integrity, and Election Security, as we now call our work, the admissions are not surprising.
Nonprofit foundations and working groups have been raising issues for years about out-of-date voter rolls. The problems became more acute in 2020 when many states and registrars used Covid to relax rules on verification of mail-in ballots coming in from outdated rolls.
In addition, political groups spent most of 2020 suing states to loosen signature-verification on mail-in ballots they received. We think these stories deserve nonstop coverage from dedicated news operations, despite Big Tech’s censorship now revealed.
The release continues:
According to election data, more than 43 percent of 2020 voters cast ballots by mail, the highest percentage in U.S. history.
Further, 10% of all respondents — not just those who said they voted by mail — claimed that they know “a friend, family member, co-worker, or other acquaintance who has admitted … that he or she cast a mail-in ballot in 2020 in a state other than his or her state of permanent residence.”
EPEC Team has reached out to Heartland’s Research team to learn more about the polling data. For now, we include a statement from Justin Haskins, the director of The Heartland Institute’s Socialism Research Center:
“The results of this survey are nothing short of stunning. For the past three years, Americans have repeatedly been told that the 2020 election was the most secure in history. But if this poll’s findings are reflective of reality, the exact opposite is true. This conclusion isn’t based on conspiracy theories or suspect evidence, but rather from the responses made directly by the voters themselves.”
2. What to do?
The polling results speak to the work that millions of volunteers are doing to reclaim trust and integrity in elections. EPEC Team is among them — inspired by election experts who have been tireless in their work of transparency and accuracy in election systems, including voting rolls.
We are also supportive of election officials who are committed to best practices in election management.
“Although some progress has been made in more than a dozen states since the conclusion of the 2020 election, much more work is needed in most regions of the United States,” Haskins continued.
We agree.
For example, EPEC’s founder and tech lead, Jon Lareau, recently discovered 99 voter identification numbers in early ballot counts in Virginia’s General Election — which are nowhere to be found in Virginia’s official registration records.
(We have reached out for answers about the mystery voter IDs and will keep you posted. See our recent write up about it here.)
The cost of these findings averaged about $10,000.
To help us fund these data purchases, EPEC has launched a crowdfunding effort.
Our link is live here:
https://www.givesendgo.com/EPECTeamData
We would also be grateful if you could share this newsletter and link with your networks with people who might be willing to consider a donation to help us get to our goal of raising $15,000 by the end of January. It will all go toward data purchases.
In the meantime, we are thrilled to report that we have raised $1,450 from supporters so far. In the words of one of our anonymous donors:
EPEC has been a game-changer for data analysis and election integrity work across Virginia. EPEC's transparent methodology, great public education, and easily-usable data services have been providing a valuable public benefit for election officials, volunteers and the general public since they started, and it just keeps getting better.
These words are like rocket fuel to our efforts. Thank you for your consideration. EPEC Team will keep you posted on our progress, and continue to report on our findings from the 2023 General Election in our next issue. That’s a wrap for now.
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