Here is a potential method for election fraud that doesn’t involve electronic voting machines or traditional ballot box stuffing but exploits the vulnerabilities in the ballot counting process.
In this hypothetical scenario, ballot manipulation happens during the counting process without changing the actual vote counts by allowing the sorting of absentee or mail-in ballots into stacks and separate ballots for each candidate. Ballot envelopes are then verified, and the envelopes with their signatures are stored, with the envelopes opened or unopened until counting.
On election night, ballots are brought out of storage, separated from their envelopes, and stacked for counting. Each stack contains a mix of votes for the different candidates, with stacks favorable to a particular candidate singled out during the counting process.
Finally, instead of returning these stacks to storage, they head to another counting station. The selected stacks get counted multiple times until they reach the total number of registered voters, potentially inflating the vote count for the preferred candidate.
Variability in counting stations, the movement of stacks, and the overall chaotic environment on election night could help obfuscate any fraudulent activity.
This hypothetical method doesn’t require the involvement of every election worker or counting station, increasing the chances of going undetected. The suggested fraud could happen even if the counting process is transparent and does not rely on electronic voting machines.
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