The US general election process seems to be fair! But it does not mean it has no chance to cheat! For example, the format of the ballot may have a security flaw! Why do we say that?
Commonly, a security ballot should come with an unique identifier number, then a list of candidates in the middle and the voter’s signature on the bottom. This format is used to prevent the fraud! Also, it has an advantage. if an investigation is taking place, we can quickly review the ballot by the unique number!
However, the ballot in this election does not have these anti-counterfeiting measures! Each state prints their own ballots and they has different ballot format! Some states may not have signature and identifier number. Without an identifier, all ballots will look the same! When a dispute arises, there will be no way to investigate it. In other words, if an insider changes all the votes, it can not be audited because they are all the same! Even if the fraud is found, there will be no proof unless they have a backup copy!
The cheaters can also make many copies of this kind of identical ballots and fill them in with their own selections! As long as it is not too outrageous! No one will doubt it or investigate it! The biggest possibility is that the mail in ballot may be a corrective vote or a duplicate vote! A corrective vote is acceptable but we need to count the one voted on site! The duplicated vote is considered a cheating! This will cause a certain candidate to suddenly have more votes.
In this time the increase of Wisconsin state vote is too obvious! It suddenly appeared 120k more votes for the same candidate, which caused suspicion! We do not know how this state prints their ballots. If these votes have signatures, they can be checked. If they have no signature, they may not be checkable at all! But, maybe there is a way to check it, only if they have scanned a copy in their backup system!
No facial ID or driver's license check in the polling place is another problem. Voters only need to provide their names and signatures before they are casting a vote. This is not safe! If a person has just died, his family or friends may still represent him to vote! But these impersonations have little effect on the overall voting! The biggest impact is mailing votes! Due to virus infection we allow the mail- in ballots. Some cheaters may vote twice by mail and by on site! It becomes one person voting twice to same candidate! This is a possible fraud!
The current voting procedure mechanism cannot prevent this repetitive voting from happening because we do not have the signature and the unique identifier number on each ballot! However, if we compare the "Signature of Mailed Vote" and "Signature of on-site Vote roll-call", we can still find these duplicate votes. The problem is that someone has to compare and check them one by one. It is very time-consuming and laborious. If it is not necessary, in many cases no one will go for such an inspection. in this election, there must be many duplicate votes!
The on site vote security is not guaranteed, and so the mail in ballots! All the mail in votes could have been manipulated! The cheaters got plenty of times to do it! Even if It is signed, some simple signatures are still easy to be faked! If someone deliberately falsified, it is definitely possible! Sometimes it can be caused by human error but nobody will be responsible for the mistakes! The cheating penalty is too light!
That is why President Trump strongly opposes mail in voting! We hope that we will learn a lesson from this election! Americans want a fair election! We can refer to Australia. Their voting process is stricter, and all ballots have a name, a signature and a unique identifier number!