Originally Posted by
tomder55
And that is why garbage law like HR1 is harmful. Take for example the mandate in HR1 for states to mail out absentee ballots to everyone registered . Connecticut spent $7.1 million in 2020 to do just that . They sent them to 3.6 million voters . 865,000 were returned . Any one of those ballots would've been available free to any voter who requested them . So we will never know how many actual votes were added because of the $8.20 /vote returned initiative .
On top of that more than 8% of the ballots mailed came back as undeliverable . There were almost 200,000 people on the rolls that did not vote in the last 2 elections . They have not been purged from the rolls and those ballots also went out .
Extrapolate those numbers to a national mandate and tell me that guarantees the integrity of the ballot . And don't you think the state of Connecticut ;one of the highest taxed states in the union, could've put that $7 million to better use ?