Did you know that there will be a new regulation that bans drop boxes?
That is good news as it helps minimize fraud due to poor chain of custody. South Carolina doesn’t mail all registered voters ballots and they don’t use drop boxes. If we can incorporate other measures to tighten up our election process we can be the model for election integrity but we still need some work.
RESOLVED, The Republican National Committee calls for elimination of temporary or ‘pop-up’ voting
locations, drop boxes, and any other voting center that are not fairly defined and bound to a designated
geographic territory and where voting locations exist, namely by precinct, so that voting is accessible equitably by legal precinct, ward or defined geographic unit in order to provide impartial access for all voters; and
Ban drop boxes via state law and have precincts to reduce size of precincts to the legislative limit of 1500 qualified electors. There is a current regulation that addresses this by stating that counties cannot adopt drop boxes but this issue needs to be addressed in the state law.
Problem: Mail in voting has chain of custody issues and is a potential for fraud.
Solution: Minimize reasons for absentee requests.
Bill 4260 7-15-320 ameliorates this issue by removing the age 65 and older reason for requesting an absentee ballot.