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Corrik7 posted...

The MIT study said voter fraud is more rampant in mail in balloting and was recommended against. If I remember correctly.

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/04/864899178/why-is-voting-by-mail-suddenly-controversial-heres-what-you-need-to-know

While election experts say fraud in mail balloting is slightly more common than in in-person voting it's still such a minuscule amount it's not statistically meaningful.

Amber Reynolds, a former Colorado election official and now CEO of the National Vote at Home Institute, and Charles Stewart, director of the MIT Election Data and Science Lab, recently put the numbers in context in an op-ed in The Hill titled "Let's put the vote-by-mail 'fraud' myth to rest."

Over the past 20 years, they write, more than 250 million ballots have been cast by mail nationwide, while there have been just 143 criminal convictions for election fraud related to mail ballots. That averages out to about one case per state every six or seven years, or a fraud rate of 0.00006%.

"Expanding voting by mail will be a challenge in most states in 2020," they write. "But we reiterate: There is no evidence that mail-balloting results in rampant voter fraud, nor that election officials lack the knowledge about how to protect against abuses."

IIRC, the "MIT study" you're referencing turned out to be done by an MIT student or something to that effect but it nevertheless made rounds across right-wing media as "omg MIT says FRAUD"

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