Local elections matter!-----A River of Doubt Runs Through Mail Voting in Montana | RealClearInvestigations

A River of Doubt Runs Through Mail Voting in Montana | RealClearInvestigations

"The prevailing narrative among Democrats, and much of the media, is that there was little if any fraud in the 2020 election, and therefore nothing to fear from Congress’s efforts to make mail balloting the new normal after its trial by fire in the pandemic. But a ballot audit from an unlikely place challenges this narrative, John R. Lott Jr. reports for RealClearInvestigations:

• A comprehensive audit of the 2020 vote in Montana’s Missoula County found irregularities on a scale large enough to easily swing local elections, not to mention statewide elections in cycles past.
• The audit of the sprawling county—antithesis of the large urban centers typically associated with election fraud—found 6.33% of the county’s 72,491 ballots lacking signed cover envelopes with official registration information crucial to verifying votes. It is against the law to count such votes.
• Auditors estimated an even higher percentage of problematic votes after factoring in other irregularities.
• Auditors also reported seeing dozens of signatures bearing strikingly similar, distinctive styles—some coming from the same location, a nursing home—leading them to strongly suspect one or more people cast fraudulent ballots.
• While the Missoula audit found more than 5,000 votes with unexplained irregularities, fewer than 500 votes separated the candidates in two local races for state legislature, and at least one previous statewide race was determined by fewer than 3,000 votes...Read all!