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Two weeks ahead of the 2026 November midterm elections, which could change the balance of power in Congress, the Washington, D.C., Board of Elections sent me four strangers’ mail-in ballots.
This is not a one-off. It is happening to Americans across the country. Early voting has already begun for the midterms, and millions of unsecured mail-in ballots could have already been sent and submitted.
The Daily Signal decided to investigate these four ballots further. By obtaining the D.C. voter registration list, we confirmed the identities of the rightful owners and contacted one of them, a former tenant of my current residence.
Just received more mail-in-ballots addressed to strangers with my address on them! This makes eight total this year, two different elections, all different names. Only 18 days until Election Day, I wonder if we will get more…Pass the SAVE America Act! Ps. What the heck am I Show more
DC Voter Says Mail Ballot Could Have Reached Wrong Hands
“It’s concerning that anyone could just take that, theoretically, and vote in my place,” said the D.C. voter who was granted anonymity to protect his privacy. The voter was registered as not affiliated with any party.
This would be a clear case of voter fraud, a felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
“This is a pretty good example of how mail-in ballots can really be used to one party’s advantage, or one person’s advantage and to another person’s disadvantage,” he said, explaining that it’s the person doing his due diligence as a citizen who ultimately ends up harmed in the end.
“I think it’s pretty scary to think about how if these mail-in ballots are getting sent to the wrong addresses or people’s old addresses, I think that could have a pretty consequential impact in what’s going to be a really, really close election cycle,” he continued.
“You want to trust that people are going to do the right thing, but when it comes down to it, in a lot of these races, probably a couple of hundred votes are going to make a difference, that could be people taking someone else’s ballot and voting with it,” he said.
DC Voter Says Mail Ballot Could Have Reached Wrong Hands
“It’s concerning that anyone could just take that, theoretically, and vote in my place,” said the D.C. voter who was granted anonymity to protect his privacy. The voter was registered as not affiliated with any party.
This would be a clear case of voter fraud, a felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
“This is a pretty good example of how mail-in ballots can really be used to one party’s advantage, or one person’s advantage and to another person’s disadvantage,” he said, explaining that it’s the person doing his due diligence as a citizen who ultimately ends up harmed in the end.
“I think it’s pretty scary to think about how if these mail-in ballots are getting sent to the wrong addresses or people’s old addresses, I think that could have a pretty consequential impact in what’s going to be a really, really close election cycle,” he continued.
“You want to trust that people are going to do the right thing, but when it comes down to it, in a lot of these races, probably a couple of hundred votes are going to make a difference, that could be people taking someone else’s ballot and voting with it,” he said.
Two weeks out from Election Day, Cuccinelli says there is no way to ensure votes are secure, emphasizing the need to secure the election on the front end.
“It is a completely unsecured election. They’re virtually inviting you to vote all those ballots,” Cuccinelli told me, referring to the four ballots I received.
My friend’s daughter moved out of Colorado in 2014. She filed change of address forms and has tried multiple times to get off of their voter roles… because she doesn’t live there. In the past 12 years Colorado has sent her 20 ballots anyways. Democrats know this and they Show more
“This unbelievably disastrous abandonment of security of ballots is being repeated in maybe a dozen states,” he said.
California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, and Washington are all states that mail ballots to voters every election cycle, regardless of whether they want one or not. Even if you update your address and re-register to vote, there is no way to ensure a state’s secretary of state or election board will update the voter roll.
Cleta Mitchell, founder and chairman of the Election Integrity Network, says that once you are added to the voter rolls, it is nearly impossible to remove someone because they are so rarely checked.
“We need to return to in-person voting. That should be the default, in-person voting. The default should never be remote voting. That should be the exception, and then you can establish guardrails around that to manage the exception. What no one can manage is this massive unsupervised voting,” she told the Daily Signal.
Voting Rights Should Share No Party Lines
“All these concerns about the elections are shared by Democrat voters and unaffiliated voters. The voters, the general public, agrees with us,” Mitchell continued.
Election integrity is MAINSTREAM. COMMON SENSE. Voters across party lines want and expect secure elections, accurate results, transparency and accountability. The Election Integrity Network stands with that majority. Every eligible voter deserves a protected ballot and an Show more
“We’re not the extremists. It’s the Democrat members of Congress, the Democrat elected officials, and the left wing advocacy groups. They’re the ones who are the outliers. The American people want to be able to trust that the elections are accurate and that they are transparent. I think the public gets sick of the quote glitches and errors.
“The Left likes the mess,” Cuccinelli said, “because it’s to their strategic advantage that there be a mess.”
The Washington, D.C., Board of Elections did not respond to multiple requests for comment from the Daily Signal. I have also submitted a civil rights voting violation claim with the Department of Justice, and the outcome is pending.
Reprinted with Permission from The Daily Signal - by Virginia Grace McKinnon
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