A Washington state woman claims she received 16 ballots addressed to her apartment, each with a different name on it.
Jami Visayas told local NBC affiliate KING 5 that the first batch of ballots arrived Friday. reported Tuesday. She told the magazine she moved into an apartment in Bellevue on October 3.
“There were about nine voter registration slips that were not mine,” Visaya told the outlet. “Since it was addressed to someone else, I thought it was strange, so I ended up returning it to the post office here.” (Related: First state begins mail-in voting weeks after Election Day)
Visaya said she returned her ballot to a U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee.
She also said she found seven new ballots in her mailbox a few days later, but they were also addressed to her apartment and to a name she didn’t recognize.
“It’s all Indian names, probably Middle Eastern names,” Visaya said.
Washington is a vote-by-mail state and all registered voters receive a ballot. According to To Washington’s Secretary of State.
Visaya claimed that many of the ballots were addressed to different surnames.
“The management says no one has lived here for three months,” she told the outlet, referring to her apartment unit. (Stream the Daily Caller documentary Rigged here)
“Even if someone receives a second (or more) ballot, whether it’s in their name or someone else’s name,” Levan Hudson, chief of staff for the King County Elections Department, said in a statement. We will only count one vote per registered voter with a matching signature.” the office told the outlet.
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The WA mail-in voting system is truly the gold standard for elections. They burned ballot boxes, forced poll workers to wear masks for surveillance, and now the USPS is failing to deliver ballots to counties.I was shocked, I tell you! Just shocked! 🙄 https://t.co/6wcNfxowuR
— Julie “Florida Woman” Barrett (@juliecbarrett) October 30, 2024
The Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) reported on October 22 that a county in Minnesota accused an election worker of leaving multiple boxes of mail-in ballots open in the back door of his car. I was fired.
The National Association of State Election Officials and other officials sent a letter to postmaster generals in September detailing the potential dangers of voting by mail, including delayed or lost election mail, the DCNF reported. (Related: Pro-Palestinian messages reportedly found on devices during ballot box fire)
Democratic Connecticut Secretary of State Stephanie Thomas urged voters to vote in person rather than by mail in January, saying:[o]Your Monitor Can’t Do It All” NBC Connecticut reported.
