Election Integrity and Mail-in Ballot Security

Good afternoon.

Under President Trump and Attorney General Blanche,

this Department of Justice

is working to ensure that our elections

are more secure than ever

before, and that anyone who commits a crime

that violates the

integrity of our elections will be brought to justice.

Today, in conjunction with the Office of the

Inspector General of the Postal

Service and Homeland Security Investigations, we are announcing the

indictment of Damon Mathai Si.

As alleged in the indictment, the defendant,

then a letter carrier for the Postal

Service in Utah, destroyed over three hundred mail-in

ballots that were meant to be delivered to residents for the June 23rd primary.

The defendant allegedly threw those ballots into a dumpster in a church

parking

lot, even though he knew that they were ballots, and they were, uh,

clearly marked

as ballots.

Election integrity, which includes ballot integrity by the

way, should be

a nonpartisan issue.

The right of American citizens to have their votes properly counted is

vital to determining the rightful winner of an election.

But the actions of even one malicious actor on the ground can fatally

undercut that security.

To address the chronically abused mail-in ballot system,

the Postal Service recently issued a regulation that would have required

mail-in

ballots to have special tracking and design features,

ensuring both that ballots do not end up in the hands of people who

are not entitled to them, and also that the ballots do end up in the hands

of those who are entitled to them. Again, election

integrity should not be a political or partisan issue.

Who could be against properly tracking mail-in ballots?