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Almost 2 percent of mailed ballots are rejected, double the rate for in-person voting." class="css-rq4mmj" src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2012/10/07/us/BALLOT_span/BALLOT-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale" srcSet="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2012/10/07/us/BALLOT_span/BALLOT-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp 600w,https://static01.nyt.com/images/2012/10/07/us/BALLOT_span/BALLOT-jumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp 1024w,https://static01.nyt.com/images/2012/10/07/us/BALLOT_span/BALLOT-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp 1464w" sizes="((min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 1004px)) 84vw, (min-width: 1005px) 60vw, 100vw" decoding="async" width="600" height="350"/></div><figcaption class="css-y5g5d7 e1maroi60"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-jevhma e13ogyst0">An absentee ballot in Florida. Almost 2 percent of mailed ballots are rejected, double the rate for in-person voting.</span><span class="css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Credit...</span><span><span aria-hidden="false">Sarah Beth Glicksteen for The New York Times</span></span></span></figcaption></figure></div></div><div data-testid="byline-timestamp" class="css-xt80pu eakwutd0"><div class="css-sklrp3"><div class="css-1e2jphy epjyd6m1"><div class="css-233int epjyd6m0"><p class="css-4anu6l e1jsehar1"><span class="byline-prefix">By </span><span class="css-1baulvz last-byline" itemProp="name"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/adam-liptak" class="css-n8ff4n e1jsehar0">Adam Liptak</a></span></p></div></div><ul class="css-1u1psjv epjyd6m3"><li class="css-ccw2r3 epjyd6m2"><time class="css-1z1nqv e16638kd0" dateTime="2012-10-06T23:10:09-04:00">Oct. 6, 2012</time></li></ul></div></div></header><section name="articleBody" class="meteredContent css-1r7ky0e"><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — On the morning of the primary here in August, the local elections board met to decide which absentee ballots to count. It was not an easy job.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The board tossed out some ballots because they arrived without the signature required on the outside of the return envelope. It rejected one that said “see inside” where the signature should have been. And it debated what to do with ballots in which the signature on the envelope did not quite match the one in the county’s files.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“This ‘r’ is not like that ‘r,’ ” Judge Augustus D. Aikens Jr. said, suggesting that a <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/us/fulton-county-election-workers-fired.html" title="">ballot</a> should be rejected.</p></div><aside class="css-ew4tgv" aria-label="companion column"></aside></div><div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Ion Sancho, the elections supervisor here, disagreed. “This ‘k’ is like that ‘k,’ ” he replied, and he persuaded his colleagues to count the vote.</p></div><aside class="css-ew4tgv" aria-label="companion column"></aside></div><div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Scenes like this will play out in many elections next month, because Florida and other states are swiftly moving from voting at a polling place toward <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/us/mail-voting-absentee.html" title="">voting by mail</a>. In the last general election in Florida, in 2010, 23 percent of voters cast absentee ballots, up from 15 percent in the midterm election four years before. Nationwide, the use of absentee ballots and other forms of voting by mail has more than tripled since 1980 and now accounts for almost 20 percent of all votes.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Yet votes cast by mail are less likely to be counted, more likely to be compromised and more likely to be contested than those cast in a voting booth, statistics show. Election officials reject almost 2 percent of ballots cast by mail, double the rate for in-person voting.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“The more people you force to vote by mail,” Mr. Sancho said, “the more invalid ballots you will generate.”</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Election experts say the challenges created by mailed ballots could well affect outcomes this fall and beyond. If the contests next month are close enough to be within what election lawyers call the margin of litigation, the grounds on which they will be fought will not be hanging chads but ballots cast away from the voting booth.</p></div><aside class="css-ew4tgv" aria-label="companion column"></aside></div><div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">In 2008, 18 percent of the votes in the nine states likely to decide this year’s presidential election were cast by mail. That number will almost certainly rise this year, and <a class="css-yywogo" href="http://reed.edu/earlyvoting/calendar/" title="data from Early Voting Information Center" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">voters in two-thirds of the states</a> have already begun casting absentee ballots. In four Western states, voting by mail is the exclusive or dominant way to cast a ballot.</p></div><aside class="css-ew4tgv" aria-label="companion column"></aside></div><div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The trend will probably result in more uncounted votes, and it increases the potential for fraud. While fraud in voting by mail is far less common than innocent errors, it is vastly more prevalent than the in-person voting fraud that has attracted far more attention, election administrators say.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">In Florida, absentee-ballot scandals seem to arrive like clockwork around election time. Before this year’s primary, for example, a woman in Hialeah <a class="css-yywogo" href="http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2012/08/02/13/29/DC6id.So.56.pdf" title="arrest affidavit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">was charged with</a> forging an elderly voter’s signature, a felony, and possessing 31 completed absentee ballots, 29 more than allowed under <a class="css-yywogo" href="http://www.miamidade.gov/govaction/matter.asp?matter=112169&file=true&yearFolder=Y2011" title="Miami-Dade ballots ordinance." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a local law</a>.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The flaws of absentee voting raise questions about the most elementary promises of democracy. “The right to have one’s vote counted is as important as the act of voting itself,” Justice Paul H. Anderson of the Minnesota Supreme Court <a class="css-yywogo" href="http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/Order.12.18.08.pdf" title="Coleman v. Ritchie" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wrote while considering disputed absentee ballots</a> in the <a class="css-yywogo" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/us/politics/01minnesota.html?_r=1&hp" title="Times article.">close 2008 Senate election</a> between Al Franken and Norm Coleman.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Voting by mail is now common enough and problematic enough that election experts say there have been multiple elections in which no one can say with confidence which candidate was the deserved winner. The list includes the 2000 presidential election, in which problems with absentee ballots in Florida were a little-noticed footnote to other issues.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">In the last presidential election, 35.5 million voters requested absentee ballots, but only 27.9 million absentee votes were counted, according to <a class="css-yywogo" href="http://www.law.nyu.edu/journals/legislation/issues/volume13number3/ECM_PRO_068045" title="The study." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a study</a> by Charles Stewart III, a political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He calculated that 3.9 million ballots requested by voters never reached them; that another 2.9 million ballots received by voters did not make it back to election officials; and that election officials rejected 800,000 ballots. That suggests an overall failure rate of as much as 21 percent.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Some voters presumably decided not to vote after receiving ballots, but Mr. Stewart said many others most likely tried to vote and were thwarted. “If 20 percent, or even 10 percent, of voters who stood in line on Election Day were turned away,” he wrote in the study, published in The Journal of Legislation and Public Policy, “there would be national outrage.”</p></div><aside class="css-ew4tgv" aria-label="companion column"></aside></div><div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The list of very close elections includes the 2008 Senate race in Minnesota, in which Mr. Franken’s victory over Mr. Coleman, the Republican incumbent, helped give Democrats the 60 votes in the Senate needed to pass President Obama’s health care bill. Mr. Franken won by 312 votes, while state officials rejected 12,000 absentee ballots. Recent primary elections in New York involving Republican state senators who had voted to allow same-sex marriage also hinged on absentee ballots.</p></div><aside class="css-ew4tgv" aria-label="companion column"></aside></div><div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">There are, of course, significant advantages to voting by mail. It makes life easier for the harried, the disabled and the elderly. It is cheaper to administer, makes for shorter lines on election days and allows voters more time to think about ballots that list many races. By mailing ballots, those away from home can vote. Its availability may also increase turnout in local elections, though it does not seem to have had much impact on turnout in federal ones.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Still, voting in person is more reliable, particularly since election administrators made improvements to voting equipment after the 2000 presidential election.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">There have been other and more controversial changes since then, also in the name of reliability and efficiency. Lawmakers have cut back on early voting in person, cracked down on voter registration drives, imposed identification requirements, made it harder for students to cast ballots and proposed purging voter rolls in a way that critics have said would eliminate people who are eligible to vote.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">But almost nothing has been done about the distinctive challenges posed by absentee ballots. To the contrary, Ohio’s Republican secretary of state recently sent absentee ballot applications to every registered voter in the state. And Republican lawmakers in Florida recently revised state law to allow ballots to be mailed wherever voters want, rather than typically to only their registered addresses.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“This is the only area in Florida where we’ve made it easier to cast a ballot,” Daniel A. Smith, a political scientist at the University of Florida, said of absentee voting.</p></div><aside class="css-ew4tgv" aria-label="companion column"></aside></div><div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">He posited a reason that Republican officials in particular have pushed to expand absentee voting. “The conventional wisdom is that Republicans use absentee ballots and Democrats vote early,” he said.</p></div><aside class="css-ew4tgv" aria-label="companion column"></aside></div><div><div class="sizeMedium layoutHorizontal css-1f3mpp5 ewenx681"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/10/07/us/BALLOT.html"><div class="css-5nx6oe"><h2 class="css-1bgal8l">In Florida, a Look at the Challenges of Mailed Ballots</h2><div class="css-1xhl2m"><p class="css-8k1w72"></p><p class="css-8k1w72">10 Photos</p><p class="css-8k1w72">View Slide Show <span class="css-t4350i">›</span></p></div></div><div class="css-79elbk"><div class="css-1izowsy"></div><figure class="sizeMedium layoutHorizontal ewenx680 css-1pv2nfg" aria-label="media" role="group"><div class="css-bsn42l"><div class="css-1whphny" data-testid="lazy-image"><div data-testid="lazyimage-container" style="height:257.1484375px"></div></div></div><figcaption class="css-y5g5d7 e1maroi60"></figcaption></figure></div></a><div class="css-y5g5d7 efyb8hk0"><span class="css-jevhma e13ogyst0">Sarah Beth Glicksteen for The New York Times</span></div></div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Republicans are in fact more likely than Democrats to vote absentee. In the 2008 general election in Florida, 47 percent of absentee voters were Republicans and 36 percent were Democrats.</p></div><aside class="css-ew4tgv" aria-label="companion column"></aside></div><div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">There is a bipartisan consensus that voting by mail, whatever its impact, is more easily abused than other forms. In a 2005 report signed by President Jimmy Carter and James A. Baker III, who served as secretary of state under the first President George Bush, <a class="css-yywogo" href="http://www1.american.edu/ia/cfer/report/report.html" title="report" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the Commission on Federal Election Reform concluded</a>, “Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.”</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">On the most basic level, absentee voting replaces the oversight that exists at polling places with something akin to an honor system.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“Absentee voting is to voting in person,” Judge Richard A. Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit <a class="css-yywogo" href="http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F3/385/385.F3d.1128.03-3770.html" title="Griffin v. Roupas" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">has written</a>, “as a take-home exam is to a proctored one.”</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><strong class="css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10">Fraud Easier Via Mail</strong></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Election administrators have a shorthand name for a central weakness of voting by mail. They call it granny farming.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“The problem,” said Murray A. Greenberg, a former county attorney in Miami, “is really with the collection of absentee ballots at the senior citizen centers.” In Florida, people affiliated with political campaigns “help people vote absentee,” he said. “And help is in quotation marks.”</p></div><aside class="css-ew4tgv" aria-label="companion column"></aside></div><div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Voters in nursing homes can be subjected to subtle pressure, outright intimidation or fraud. The secrecy of their voting is easily compromised. And their ballots can be intercepted both coming and going.</p></div><aside class="css-ew4tgv" aria-label="companion column"></aside></div><div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The problem is not limited to the elderly, of course. Absentee ballots also make it much easier to buy and sell votes. In recent years, courts have <a class="css-yywogo" href="http://www.state.il.us/court/opinions/appellatecourt/2005/1stdistrict/march/html/1032528.htm" title="Qualkinbush v. Skubisz" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">invalidated mayoral elections in Illinois</a> and <a class="css-yywogo" href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=12855003844415311095&hl=en&as_sdt=2&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr" title="Pabey v. Pastrick" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Indiana</a> because of fraudulent absentee ballots.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Voting by mail also played a crucial role in the 2000 presidential election in Florida, when the margin between George W. Bush and Al Gore was razor thin and <a class="css-yywogo" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/15/us/examining-the-vote-how-bush-took-florida-mining-the-overseas-absentee-vote.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm" title="Times article.">hundreds of absentee ballots were counted in apparent violation of state law</a>. The flawed ballots, from Americans living abroad, included some without postmarks, some postmarked after the election, some without witness signatures, some mailed from within the United States and some sent by people who voted twice. All would have been disqualified had the state’s election laws been strictly enforced.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">In the recent primary here, almost 40 percent of ballots were not cast in the voting booth on the day of the election. They were split between early votes cast at polling places, which Mr. Sancho, the Leon County elections supervisor, favors, and absentee ballots, which make him nervous.</p><div id="NYT_MAIN_CONTENT_3_REGION" class="css-9tf9ac" data-testid="region"></div><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“There has been not one case of fraud in early voting,” Mr. Sancho said. “The only cases of election fraud have been in absentee ballots.”</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Efforts to prevent fraud at polling places have an ironic consequence, Justin Levitt, a professor at Loyola Law School, <a class="css-yywogo" href="http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/11-9-8LevittTestimony.pdf" title="The testimony." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">told the Senate Judiciary Committee</a> September last year. They will, he said, “drive more voters into the absentee system, where fraud and coercion have been documented to be real and legitimate concerns.”</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“That is,” he said, “a law ostensibly designed to reduce the incidence of fraud is likely to increase the rate at which voters utilize a system known to succumb to fraud more frequently.”</p></div><aside class="css-ew4tgv" aria-label="companion column"></aside></div><div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><strong class="css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10">Clarity Brings Better Results</strong></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">In 2008, Minnesota officials rejected 12,000 absentee ballots, about 4 percent of all such votes, for the myriad reasons that make voting by mail far less reliable than voting in person.</p></div><aside class="css-ew4tgv" aria-label="companion column"></aside></div><div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The absentee ballot itself could be blamed for some of the problems. It had to be enclosed in envelopes containing various information and signatures, including one from a witness who had to attest to handling the logistics of seeing that “the voter marked the ballots in that individual’s presence without showing how they were marked.” Such witnesses must themselves be registered voters, with a few exceptions.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Absentee ballots have been rejected in Minnesota and elsewhere for countless reasons. Signatures from older people, sloppy writers or stroke victims may not match those on file. The envelopes and forms may not have been configured in the right sequence. People may have moved, and addresses may not match. Witnesses may not be registered to vote. The mail may be late.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">But it is certainly possible to improve the process and reduce the error rate.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Here in Leon County, the rejection rate for absentee ballots is less than 1 percent. The instructions it provides to voters are clear, and the outer envelope is a model of graphic design, with a large signature box at its center.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The envelope requires only standard postage, and Mr. Sancho has made arrangements with the post office to pay for ballots that arrive without stamps.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Still, he would prefer that voters visit a polling place on Election Day or beforehand so that errors and misunderstandings can be corrected and the potential for fraud minimized.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“If you vote by mail, where is that coming from?” he asked. “Is there intimidation going on?”</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Last November, Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican, <a class="css-yywogo" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=7&ved=0CEQQFjAG&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flgov.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Forders%2F2011%2F11-215-johnson.pdf&ei=lLdsUOulOM630AHa54D4DQ&usg=AFQjCNGpZuSjlvClUw-nR74UdU0mVF_jig&sig2=ES0oyjWh4TH3RZ5CyOKQVg&cad=rja" title="Executive order and arrest affidavit." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">suspended a school board member</a> in Madison County, not far from here, after she was arrested on charges including absentee ballot fraud.</p></div><aside class="css-ew4tgv" aria-label="companion column"></aside></div><div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The board member, Abra Hill Johnson, won the school board race “by what appeared to be a disproportionate amount of absentee votes,” <a class="css-yywogo" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=7&ved=0CEQQFjAG&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flgov.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Forders%2F2011%2F11-215-johnson.pdf&ei=lLdsUOulOM630AHa54D4DQ&usg=AFQjCNGpZuSjlvClUw-nR74UdU0mVF_jig&sig2=ES0oyjWh4TH3RZ5CyOKQVg&cad=rja" title="Executive order and arrest affidavit." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the arrest affidavit</a> said. The vote was 675 to 647, but Ms. Johnson had 217 absentee votes to her opponent’s 86. Officials said that 80 absentee ballots had been requested at just nine addresses. Law enforcement agents interviewed 64 of the voters whose ballots were sent; only two recognized the address.</p></div><aside class="css-ew4tgv" aria-label="companion column"></aside></div><div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Ms. Johnson has pleaded not guilty.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Election law experts say that pulling off in-person voter fraud on a scale large enough to swing an election, with scores if not hundreds of people committing a felony in public by pretending to be someone else, is hard to imagine, to say nothing of exceptionally risky.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">There are much simpler and more effective alternatives to commit fraud on such a scale, said Heather Gerken, a law professor at Yale.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“You could steal some absentee ballots or stuff a ballot box or bribe an election administrator or fiddle with an electronic voting machine,” she said. 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In the last general election in Florida, in 2010, 23 percent of voters cast absentee ballots, up from 15 percent in the midterm election four years before. Nationwide, the use of absentee ballots and other forms of voting by mail has more than tripled since 1980 and now accounts for almost 20 percent of all votes.","formats":[]}]},{"__typename":"Dropzone","adsMobile":false,"adsDesktop":false,"index":4,"bad":false,"adsMobileHoldout":false,"adsDesktopHoldout":false},{"__typename":"ParagraphBlock","textAlign":"DEFAULT","content":[{"__typename":"TextInline","text":"Yet votes cast by mail are less likely to be counted, more likely to be compromised and more likely to be contested than those cast in a voting booth, statistics show. 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If the contests next month are close enough to be within what election lawyers call the margin of litigation, the grounds on which they will be fought will not be hanging chads but ballots cast away from the voting booth.","formats":[]}]},{"__typename":"Dropzone","adsMobile":true,"adsDesktop":false,"index":7,"bad":false,"adsMobileHoldout":false,"adsDesktopHoldout":true},{"__typename":"ParagraphBlock","textAlign":"DEFAULT","content":[{"__typename":"TextInline","text":"In 2008, 18 percent of the votes in the nine states likely to decide this year’s presidential election were cast by mail. That number will almost certainly rise this year, and ","formats":[]},{"__typename":"TextInline","text":"voters in two-thirds of the states","formats":[{"__typename":"LinkFormat","url":"http:\u002F\u002Freed.edu\u002Fearlyvoting\u002Fcalendar\u002F","title":"data from Early Voting Information Center"}]},{"__typename":"TextInline","text":" have already begun casting absentee ballots. 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The flaws of absentee voting raise questions about the most elementary promises of democracy. “The right to have one’s vote counted is as important as the act of voting itself,” said Justice Paul H. 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They were split between early votes cast at polling places, which Mr. Sancho, the Leon County elections supervisor, favors, and absentee ballots, which make him nervous.","formats":[]}]},{"__typename":"Dropzone","adsMobile":false,"adsDesktop":false,"index":32,"bad":false,"adsMobileHoldout":false,"adsDesktopHoldout":false},{"__typename":"ParagraphBlock","textAlign":"DEFAULT","content":[{"__typename":"TextInline","text":"“There has been not one case of fraud in early voting,” Mr. Sancho said. “The only cases of election fraud have been in absentee ballots.”","formats":[]}]},{"__typename":"Dropzone","adsMobile":false,"adsDesktop":false,"index":33,"bad":false,"adsMobileHoldout":false,"adsDesktopHoldout":false},{"__typename":"ParagraphBlock","textAlign":"DEFAULT","content":[{"__typename":"TextInline","text":"Efforts to prevent fraud at polling places have an ironic consequence, Justin Levitt, a professor at Loyola Law School, ","formats":[]},{"__typename":"TextInline","text":"told the Senate Judiciary Committee","formats":[{"__typename":"LinkFormat","url":"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.judiciary.senate.gov\u002Fpdf\u002F11-9-8LevittTestimony.pdf","title":"The testimony."}]},{"__typename":"TextInline","text":" September last year. 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It had to be enclosed in envelopes containing various information and signatures, including one from a witness who had to attest to handling the logistics of seeing that “the voter marked the ballots in that individual’s presence without showing how they were marked.” Such witnesses must themselves be registered voters, with a few exceptions.","formats":[]}]},{"__typename":"Dropzone","adsMobile":false,"adsDesktop":false,"index":37,"bad":false,"adsMobileHoldout":false,"adsDesktopHoldout":false},{"__typename":"ParagraphBlock","textAlign":"DEFAULT","content":[{"__typename":"TextInline","text":"Absentee ballots have been rejected in Minnesota and elsewhere for countless reasons. Signatures from older people, sloppy writers or stroke victims may not match those on file. The envelopes and forms may not have been configured in the right sequence. People may have moved, and addresses may not match. Witnesses may not be registered to vote. 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The vote was 675 to 647, but Ms. Johnson had 217 absentee votes to her opponent’s 86. Officials said that 80 absentee ballots had been requested at just nine addresses. 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