Since 2020, we have seen an unprecedented amount of viral falsehoods and misinformation about elections. We answered voters’ questions about how officials take steps to deliver a secure election:
Election officials also take steps to prevent someone from casting a ballot twice in the same election, either by mail or in person. In Florida, when voters cast ballots in person, their nine-digit identification numbers appear in voter registration records — either in an electronic poll book or an actual printed book. Election officials can check whether someone has already cast a ballot in the same election to make sure that person doesn’t vote twice.
The boxes typically weigh more than 600 pounds and have tamper-proof mechanisms. States that use ballot drop boxeson whether they must be under video surveillance, as well as hours and locations. There is no evidence that ballot drop boxes have been a tool of mass voter fraud – they have been used for about two decades without controversy, including inStates set their own rules about who can return mail ballots on behalf of other voters. Opponents of this practice call it "ballot harvesting" while election officials usually refer to it as "ballot collection."
Dinesh D’Souza, who has a history of spreading falsehoods, produced a documentary about ballot drop boxes. D’Souza said he found criminal use of ballot drop boxes, but elections experts have cast doubt about his methodology, and
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