[Nevada] VICTOR JOECKS: Clark County election officials accepted my signature — on 8 ballot envelopes – IOTW Report

[Nevada] VICTOR JOECKS: Clark County election officials accepted my signature — on 8 ballot envelopes

By Victor Joecks Las Vegas Review-Journal-

Clark County election officials accepted my signature on eight ballot return envelopes during the general election. It’s more evidence that signature verification is a flawed security measure.

For months, election officials have told Nevadans not to worry about ballots piling up in apartment trash cans or sent to wrong addresses.

“Discarded mail ballots cannot just be picked up and voted by anyone,” a fact sheet from the secretary of state’s office says. “All mail ballots must be signed on the ballot return envelope. This signature is used to authenticate the voter and confirm that it was actually the voter and not another person who returned the mail ballot.”

I wanted to test that claim by simulating what might happen if someone returned ballots that didn’t belong to him or her. Plenty of people had this opportunity. Billy Geurin, a 10-year Las Vegas resident, found five loose ballots in his apartment mailroom. A reader emailed me a picture of a pile of mail on the side of the road, which included loose ballots. There are numerous pictures of similar examples on social media.

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12 Comments on [Nevada] VICTOR JOECKS: Clark County election officials accepted my signature — on 8 ballot envelopes

  1. Nothing will change the vote outcome like nobody’s gone to prison from the top (or bottom) of the Swamp in the last 4 years.
    I won’t sleep well until I give up on all the ‘hope’ stories.

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  2. Of course you know that Clark County in Nevada is named after the former corrupt US Senator from Montana William A Clark who moved to Nevada after his political career was over in Montana and as a US Senator. By the way Mark Twain hated Clarks guts with a purple passion, he couldn’t stand the corrupt bastard.

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  3. To quote from a Mark twain commentary on Montana US Senator William A Clark in a written commentary in 1907, he wrote the following commentary about Clark. “He is said to have bought legislatures and judges as other men buy food and raiment. By his example he has so excused and sweetened corruption that in Montana, it no longer has an offensive smell. His history is known to everybody, he is as rotten a human being as can be found anywhere under the flag, he is a shame to the American nation and no one has helped to send him to the Senate who did not know that his proper place was in the penitentiary with a ball and chain on his legs. To my mind he is the most disgusting creature that the Republic has produced since Tweed’s time.”

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  4. “the most disgusting creature .. since Tweed’s time.”

    Had to look up what was meant by “Tweed’s time”

    A reference to “William Magear “Boss” Tweed, leader of New York City’s corrupt Tammany Hall political organization during the 1860s and early 1870s, is delivered to authorities in New York City after his capture in Spain. …
    the “Tweed Ring,” which openly bought votes, encouraged judicial corruption, extracted millions from city contracts, and …”

    https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/boss-tweed-delivered-to-authorities .

    Today’s political corruption makes Boss Tweed, into a petty thief by comparison. There are several names worthy of replacing his name as the most disgusting creature the Republic has ever produced.

    Cartoonist Thomas Nast showed Tweed’s source of power:
    Control of the ballot box. “As long as I count the Votes, what are you going to do about it?”

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