Michigan Rejects 846 Mailed Ballots ‘Because the Voter Was Dead’

Kyle Olson 15 Aug 2020

Michigan clerks rejected 10,694 mailed ballots during the August 4 primary.  Of those, 846 ballots were not accepted “because the voter was dead,” the Detroit News reported.  Further, 2,225 ballots were denied because there was no voter signature on the envelope, and 1,111 votes were discarded because the voter moved to a new address after submitting the ballot. The state claimed the dead voters died between the time they submitted the ballot and when it was counted.

Michigan’s largest city, Detroit, received 820 ballots that were ultimately rejected, according to the paper.  Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is demanding the legislature pass a bill requiring city and township clerks to call voters who have obvious flaws with their ballot, such as a missing signature.

“With turnout and absentee ballot numbers expected to double or even triple in November, we could be looking at tens of thousands of Michigan citizens disenfranchised if the legislature again fails to act,” she said.

Meanwhile, more than 223,000 ballots were “undeliverable” in Clark County, Nevada, the Review-Journal reported..........To Read More....

My Take - As one of my correspondents noted: 

This isn't ballot applications, it's completed ballots - e.g., votes. Mail in ballots and weeks of early voting is just rife for these sorts of problems and potential voter fraud too.

How many states will wind up counting votes from people who are actually dead because they don't check or don't check carefully.... Or they do check for ones from zip codes predominantly from the party they don't like, but don't check ones from zip codes predominantly from the party they do like?

For that matter, can mail sorting machines be programmed to kick out (not deliver) ballots from zip codes which are predominantly from one party or the other? There are already examples of massive numbers of ballots being "lost" by postal carriers with an agenda this way... but I wouldn't be surprised if it's possible to use sorting machines to rig things too.

The entire process just adds all sorts of new possible ways to cheat.