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Why Do Ballots Keep Turning up Where They Shouldn’t?

Even when the legacy media tell you they don’t.

Here’s those ballots you ordered. The Good Oil. Photoshop by Lushington Brady.

As its lies catch up with the BBC, there’s still a long way to go to hold the rest of the legacy media accountable for their lies. One of their biggest and most often repeated was that claims of election fraud in the US 2020 presidential election were “without evidence”. This is a blatant lie.

Now, I’m not saying that the election was stolen. But was there evidence of fraud? Absolutely. What the legacy media are doing is deliberately conflating “evidence” with “proof”. The former is not the latter, though, if the evidence is strong enough, it becomes proof.

In some cases, there even was proof, in the form of convictions. The Heritage Foundation has a useful map of proven cases of electoral fraud.

Was it enough to sway the 2020 election? Probably unlikely. But the fact remains that it did happen. That in itself is reason enough for concern.

That it’s still going on is even more concerning.

The reports of ballots turning up in unexpected places during elections are often described by officials as isolated and unlikely to influence results. Yet during the 2025 election cycle, at least three documented incidents in Maine, Arizona, and California involved ballots being discovered outside standard custody procedures.

Each case was resolved, and election officials maintain that no votes were lost or counted improperly. Still, the incidents have continued to raise broader questions about ballot handling, chain-of-custody safeguards, and voter confidence.

That the world’s leading democracy has such a haphazard – to put it kindly – voting system is simply astonishing.

Maine being a blue state, its government are keen to downplay the incident. Republicans are not so sanguine.

House Republican Leader Billy Bob Faulkingham reacted sharply to the discovery, saying, “The discovery of hundreds of authentic state ballots in a private Amazon delivery is beyond alarming.”

Election officials voided the compromised ballots and reissued new ones to the affected voters.

Those are the ones they know about, anyway.

It’s not just in Maine, either.

In Arizona, Maricopa County election workers found two sealed containers holding 2,288 returned ballot affidavit envelopes three days after Election Day. The containers had been left in a secure drop box instead of being collected on election night.

Jennifer Liewer, deputy elections director in Maricopa County, said the situation was the result of human error, not misconduct. “Humans run our elections, our community members run our elections, and there are going to be mistakes that are made,” she said […]

The ballots were processed and counted after being located.

In California, during the Proposition 50 special election in Sacramento County, sheriff’s deputies found approximately 99 unopened mail ballots at a homeless encampment while investigating stolen mail. Election officials voided the ballots and reissued them to affected voters.

Local election administrators said the reissued ballots ensured no voter was disenfranchised.

Democrats narrowly won in Arizona in 2020, with Maricopa County being a particular battleground in the close-run flip of a normally red state. California is, well, California.

Funny how all these coincidences just keep coinciding in the Democrats’ favour.

Election researchers say that, statistically, such incidents remain rare, and they consistently emphasize that there is no evidence of systemic ballot tampering. But the pattern remains: every election cycle produces a small number of high-visibility ballot handling mistakes that draw disproportionate public attention.

The tension lies between what is true, the system caught the mistakes and corrected them and what feels true, ballots were found in places they should not have been.

Officials frequently say these incidents “almost never happen.”

Yet every election cycle, they reappear.

Once is a coincidence…

But I’m sure the legacy media will tell us that’s ‘without evidence’.


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