The Labor Law Insider

A podcast about how employers can tear apart and derail much needed advances for workers. Are you getting scared employers? Hard to swallow that fact that workers might have a voice in the workplace, be free from retaliation for asserting the right to take sick leave for themselves and their families? Too much to bear?

This show continues to push the big Trump Lie! Mail balloting is not a new idea; it was already deeply embedded in the American electoral system before the coronavirus hit. In the last two federal elections, roughly one out of every four Americans cast a mail ballot. In five states — Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah, and Washington — mail balloting has been the primary method of voting. In 28 additional states, all voters have had the right to vote by mail. Since 2000 more than 250 million votes have been cast via mailed-out ballots, in all 50 states, In 2018, more than 31 million Americans cast their ballots by mail, about 25.8 percent of election participants. Despite this dramatic increase in mail voting over time, fraud rates remain infinitesimally small. None of the five states that hold their elections primarily by mail has had any voter fraud scandals since making that change. As the New York Times editorial board notes, “states that use vote-by-mail have encountered essentially zero fraud: Oregon, the pioneer in this area, has sent out more than 100 million mail-in ballots since 2000, and has documented only about a dozen cases of proven fraud.” That’s 0.00001 percent of all votes cast.*** An exhaustive investigative journalism analysis of all known voter fraud cases identified only 491 cases of absentee ballot fraud from 2000 to 2012.