2020 presidential election: 92K ballots mailed to registered voters in Nevada returned undeliverable, says report
The 2020 presidential election was centered around a massive allegation of voter fraud that former President Donald Trump and his allies had brought against the opponents. They refused to concede defeat to President Joe Biden saying the entire electoral exercise was compromised. And if an analysis of election data by a conservative legal group is to be believed, more than 92,000 ballots that were mailed to registered voters in Nevada’s largest county came back undeliverable.
Those many ballots mailed to registered voters in Clark County, Nevada’s largest county, for the presidential election were returned undeliverable, according to an analysis of election data by a conservative legal group. The Public Interest Legal Foundation’s (PILF) research brief of March 10 said while more than 450,000 voters voted through mail-in ballots, more than 92,000 were returned by the postal service as undeliverable. Clark County, which includes the Las Vegas metro area, mailed ballots to all its 1.3 million active voters and not just those who requested them. It justified the unique move as one to help people to cast their ballots remotely during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The Epoch Times reported that the number is based on the data provided last month by Clark County Voter Registrar Joe Gloria, as per the brief. The county election office though did not immediately respond on the matter.
“Mass-mail balloting is a step backward for American elections. There are millions of voter registration records with unreliable ‘active’ address information that will ultimately send ballots to the wrong place in a mail election,” PILF president J Christian Adams said in the research brief.
Biden won Nevada by less than three percentage points to ensure the Democrats winning the Silver State for the fourth consecutive term. The PILF had criticized the idea of mass-ballot mailing prior to the election in states that did not have such a system in place. In the earlier elections held in 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018, Nevada registered only 5,863 mail ballots returned undelivered overall, the PILF brief said referring to the US Election Assistance Commission.
PILF slams H.R.1 bill, says it will make things worse
The PILF also slammed the H.R.1 election reform bill that the Democrat-controlled House recently passed. Saying that bill will make the situation even worse, the conservative group opined: “The bill’s cosponsors designed it to shift elections to the mail in a relatively short period of time. The Nevada data offer exhaustive examples of the worst that can happen if this federal mandate becomes reality. Local governments will be forced to assume millions of dollars to regress to more analog, pen and paper systems while spending funds on the transmission of mail to obsolete addresses with mandatory pre-paid postage included.” Adams also criticized the bill to say: “H.R. 1 does more harm than good for the American people and will leave them at a constant disadvantage to correct election system errors which ultimately impact their abilities to vote in a timely manner.”
Las Vegas primary also saw similar claims
However, this is not the first time that election in Nevada has come under the scanner in recent times. During the Las Vegas primary last June, too, the Clark County mailed ballots to all 1.3 million registered voters but 223,000 never got delivered, the PILF had claimed in August 2020 and it was confirmed by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Although the report attributed the undeliverable ballots to outdated voter rolls, the problem alludes to the ones other counties could face if they pursue mail-only voting in the November presidential election. Although the report attributed the undeliverable ballots to voter rolls that are outdated, the possibility of the same happening in the other counties in the November election was not ruled out.
“These numbers show how vote by mail fails. New proponents of mail balloting don't often understand how it actually works. States like Oregon and Washington spent many years building their mail voting systems and are notably aggressive with voter list maintenance efforts. Pride in their own systems does not somehow transfer across state lines. Nevada, New York, and others are not and will not be ready for November,” Adams had then said in a statement.