Drop box

The use of ballot drop boxes is a recent practice and growing rapidly. During the 2016 general election, nearly 16% of voters nationwide cast their ballot using drop boxes. Four years later, with many more states providing access to ballot drop boxes, over 40% of absentee voters cast their ballot using ballot drop boxes and more than 10% of the votes in the 2020 general election were returned using drop boxes For the first time ever, you can now see where and when more than 550,000 Georgians used nearly 300 boxes across 112 counties. This is a significant number since the democrat Senate candidate Ossoff beat the republican candidate Purdue by only 88,000 votes. Many drop boxes have video cameras and they show people coming during the night and putting in hands full of ballots. Non profits send out ballot applications to voters homes. One such group called Center for Voter Information (CVI) has come under scrutiny. The purpose is to register voters and promote mail in voting. The nonprofits aim to send 340 million pieces of mail this election cycle, with a focus on two dozen key states. Tom Lopach, the CEO of CVI defended his role and said he is filling a hole left by local election operations. “The sad reality is that underfunded state and county election offices don’t have the resources to run voter registration programs,” Lopach said. “Beyond pointing unregistered voters to their websites, or trying to do outdoor registration drives in a pandemic, election officials are unprepared and incapable of finding and registering eligible Americans who are not participating in democracy.”