Despite many of the myths about rampant voter fraud with mail-in voting, there is little evidence to support this claim. There are several built-in anti-fraud protections to prevent and minimize such abuses. Kansas mail-in voting is using an absentee ballot, where a voter must request a mail-in ballot. In an absentee ballot system, a voter requests a ballot either by phone, in-person, or online through their local election office.
When requesting a ballot, the voter must provide their name and address, and once the request is approved, the ballot is sent to the address on file of the registered voter on a preset schedule. The ballot that is sent out to the voter includes both the ballot itself and an outer security envelope with a barcode affixed to it and a signature line they must sign. The voter will place the ballot inside the security envelope, sign the outside of the envelope and mail it back. The signature is verified by an election worker when the ballot is mailed back against the signature that is on file for the voter. In addition, the outer envelope also has a unique tracking barcode, which will not only enable the ballot to track when a particular voter has voted (minimizing the likelihood of a someone being able to vote twice), but also allow the voter to check the status of their ballot to ensure that it has been accepted and processed correctly by election officials via the Kansas Secretary of State's Voter View website.
These safeguards are in place to reduce the chance of voters being able to both vote by mail and in-person (via barcode tracking), using someone else's identity to vote (signature verification), and/or requesting a ballot under another person's name (ballots can only be sent to addresses on file for the voter – they cannot be forwarded to another address). Furthermore, Sedgwick County has made more drop boxes available for voters to drop off their mail-in ballots as part of their COVID-19 precautions; these drop boxes are locked and ballots are personally collected daily by election workers.
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