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The Oct. 15 column by Victor Joecks in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, “Las Vegas voter: I could have voted four times thanks to vote-by-mail,” claims a local woman received five ballots in the mail and could have forged her family members’ signatures on the ones not intended for her.
What Joecks minimizes is that doing so would have meant committing a felony — eight of them, to be exact: one for each forgery and one for each instance of voter fraud.
Joecks is trying to convince you that it is easy to do becausethe Election Department lacks methods to prevent fraud. I work with the Clark County Election Department and can assure you that it takes fraud very seriously.
Joecks claims he wrote someone’s signature and had the voter copy his version — which sounds crazy to me — and it passed?Sounds like a case of forgery to me, but I will leave that up to the proper authorities to investigate.
Someone could sign his or her initial voter registration form with an X, and if this is this person’s legal signature, it should be accepted after this person’s identity has been confirmed. Who is Joecks to tell voters that their handwriting should appear a certain way? He doesn’t understand how the process works. You could send in a thousand mail-in ballots if you found them, but it is not worth going to prison for.
There is no evidence to back up any claims of massive voter fraud.
