Mail-In Ballots — "the most degrading and destabilizing ingredient"
- Sep 29
- 7 min read
Keshel analyzes Trump's position and concludes, "Damn the torpedoes!"
By Seth Keshel, MFEI Special Advisor
September 29, 2025
[Editor's Note: This column was originally published on Substack at CaptK's Corner on September 26, 2025. Reprinted here with permission.]
Many are anxiously awaiting executive action on mail-in ballots, and I have been asked by a key contact up the chain of command to assemble preliminary analysis on President Trump’s most recent statements pertaining to that subject, which is by far the most degrading and destabilizing ingredient present in our very troubled system of elections. We have been on the edge of our seats ever since we saw this post on August 18, which pledged to eradicate the scourge of mail-in voting by any means necessary:
It has been more than a month since that post, but with half the world on fire, an economy to kickstart, and recent political violence perpetrated by deranged leftists incited by idiots on a screen, it is understandable that the President has delayed. Still, midterm mail-in ballots, if they still exist at that point, are going to be flying 12 short months from now and will give short-term employment to legions of paid ballot harvesters looking to rip off your U.S. House seat.
As I wrote the day Trump’s statement broke:
Mail-in voting is a scam installed by people who realized it was the easiest way to control election outcomes, using the delay in counting them to drip-drip-drip the winners out, using the mainstream media as a mouthpiece. Some states have taken the Elections Clause too far and created election systems that alter the composition of the federal legislative bodies and manipulate the outcome of the Electoral College vote for President.
HEADLINE: Bellevue woman receives 16 ballots addressed to her apartment with different names. "In 30 years of voting, I've never had that many ballots that don't belong to me, you know? said resident Jami Visaya. -- NBC affiliate KING5 in Bellevue, Wash.
Using the President’s own statements, here is a look behind the curtain at the three things Americans must become intimately aware of as the information campaign behind the coming push to get people to visit polling locations once or twice every other year begins in earnest.
I. Blue As Far As the Eye Can See
Democrats are virtually Unelectable without using this completely disproven mail-in SCAM. ELECTIONS CAN NEVER BE HONEST WITH MAIL-IN BALLOTS/VOTING, and everybody, IN PARTICULAR THE DEMOCRATS, KNOWS THIS. Truth Social, August 18, 2025
Almost everything mail-in balloting touches turns blue. If it doesn’t turn blue, it trends that way. If you don’t believe me, check the stats in Utah, which went to Universal Mail-In Voting in 2016. Romney won the state by 47.9%, and Trump won it in 2024 by 21.6%. If you don’t think Romney is a good comp because he’s a Mormon from Utah, then we can use John McCain, who won by 28.2% in 2008, the year he got clobbered on the national stage. Utah was George W. Bush’s strongest state in 2004.
Eight states have Universal Mail-In Voting, and there are others who don’t quite have that level of insanity going on that still have far too many mail-in ballots flying around. I live in one, Arizona, where about three-quarters of ballots are mailed in. The eight Universal Mail-In states have an extraordinarily strong track record of backing Democrat candidates. In order of first presidential election under Universal Mail-In Voting:
Oregon (2000) 7 Democrat, 0 Republican
Washington (2012) 4 Democrat, 0 Republican
Colorado (2016) 3 Democrat, 0 Republican
Utah (2016) 3 Republican, 0 Democrat
California (2020) 2 Democrat, 0 Republican
Hawaii (2020) 2 Democrat, 0 Republican
Nevada (2020) 1 Democrat, 1 Republican
Vermont (2020) 2 Democrat, 0 Republican
25 Total Elections 21 Democrat (84%), 4 Republican (16%)
Harris won 6 of 8 states with Universal Mail-In Voting, 91 electoral votes to 12. That means Trump won 25 of 42 states without it, 294 electoral votes to 141. Trump won 67.6% of all electoral votes not under Universal Mail-In Voting, and just 11.7% in the eight that have instituted and legalized this practice of modern election rigging. Trump’s flip of Nevada, while worth six new electoral votes, wasn’t enough to get Sam Brown across for the U.S. Senate seat.
Trump fact check: Mostly correct, as Democrats are largely unelectable in states without Universal Mail-In Voting. Winning 67.6% of all electoral votes, if there were no Universal Mail-In Balloting, would amount to a 364 to 174 win in the Electoral College.
II. International Crisis
You could never have a real democracy with mail-in ballots. And we, as a Republican Party, are going to do everything possible that we get rid of mail-in ballots. We’re going to start with an executive order that’s being written right now by the best lawyers in the country to end mail-in ballots because they’re corrupt. And you know that we’re the only country in the world, I believe, I may be wrong, but just about the only country in the world that uses it because of what’s happened. Massive fraud all over the place. Meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, August 18, 2025
He said, “Your election was rigged because you have mail in voting.” He said, “Mail-in voting, every election.” He said, “No country has mail-in voting. It’s impossible to have mail-in voting and have honest elections.” Trump to Sean Hannity, Relaying Quote from Russian President Vladimir Putin, August 18, 2025
In August, in the aftermath of the Anchorage summit with President Putin, President Trump sounded off on mail-in balloting and the impact it has on U.S. elections. Putin told him he should have won his 2020 reelection handily if not for the mail-in balloting fraud, which is something all my readers know and have read about in depth in these virtual pages. I believe Minnesota should have been the closest state, with Trump winning all battleground states except for New Hampshire, which was a marginal battleground at best then but one that has reemerged as of the 2024 election. Trump then put out what looks like a deliberate mistake (that the U.S. is the only country with mail-in ballots) forcing people to investigate for themselves. The question on mail ballots came up during an interview with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy because Trump had posted about it that morning on Truth Social.
If they did the research, they’d find drastic differences in the way other nations, including peer nations in Western Europe, view mail-in balloting. The best source I can find for international attitudes toward mail-in balloting comes from an in-depth research study conducted by John Lott, Director of the Crime Research Prevention Center. Lott sounded the alarm months before the November 2020 quasi-election and came armed to the teeth with data on why mail-in balloting is fraudulent. His research includes this beauty of a map:
As of 2020, 13 of 47 European nations allowed for absentee ballots, which is still markedly different from no-excuse mail-in ballots. France, Italy, the sacred cow of Ukraine, all of Scandinavia, and many other significant European nations have no mechanism for anyone but overseas citizens to mail in a ballot. Are they racist, anti-Semitic, privileged, or bigoted? Are they trying to suppress votes? Or have they learned from history?
Look what Lott says about France:
For 50 years, France has banned mail-in ballots. Mexico has had strict bans in place since 1991, and Israel doesn’t allow for mail-in voting of any kind, as all voting must take place on Israeli soil. Only the United States accuses people of bias for opposing mail-in ballots and country club Republicans naively ignore the standards set throughout the rest of the world. Putin and Zelenskyy certainly understood Trump’s comments loud and clear, as they lead nations that require people to do the old-fashioned thing and show up and vote in person.
Trump fact check: Mail-in voting is mocked worldwide and overwhelmingly prohibited for valid reasons related to protecting the legitimacy of the electoral process.
III. Imagine a Nation Free of Mail-In Fraud
Republicans should fight very hard when it comes to state wide mail-in voting. Democrats are clamoring for it. Tremendous potential for voter fraud, and for whatever reason, doesn’t work out well for Republicans. Tweet, April 8, 2020
Not only have I surveyed the damage mail-in balloting has caused from a macro level, I’ve dug into it at the lowest levels possible, all the way down to precincts. Last month, I showed the distinction between Universal Mail-In Voting states and the rest:
· 8 of 8 states practicing Universal Mail-In Voting have moved to the left since 2000, and by an average of 12.5%.
· 15 of 24 states with Automatic Voter Registration, or 62.5%, have moved left since 2000, and by an average of 2.2% (West Virginia’s massive Republican shift alone shaved 1.5% off this number). 17 of 26 states without it, or 65.4%, moved to the right, by an average of 4.0%.
· Excluding states practicing any combination of Universal Mail-In Voting or Automatic Voter Registration, 17 of 25 (68%) states have a rightward shift since 2000, and by an average of 5.9%.
The 2020 election was undoubtedly warped from mail-in balloting fraud. In Georgia, mail-ins increased 634% from 2016 levels. In Pennsylvania, where Act 77 (2019) allowed for no-excuse mail-in balloting and a window of seven weeks to distribute and return them, Democrats reversed an obvious trend-based decline and now come in hundreds of thousands of votes (ballots) higher than any forecast would have them, including party registration changes, population data, and all known variable statistics.
I am confident the 2024 map would have looked like this without mail-in ballot fraud:
In this example, every decisive state except New Hampshire (now a toss-up) is easily won by Trump. The “big three” of the Industrial Midwest fall into the likely margin range of 5-9.9% to Trump. Minnesota, New Mexico, Virginia, and New Jersey round out the real battlegrounds, and many mainstay blue states present in much lighter shades of blue.
Trump fact check: He knows. He definitely knows.
Conclusion
Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead to purge mail-in balloting from the country using the full weight of the federal government and every legal angle we can find. The country’s elections can’t survive with any modicum of integrity if mail-in balloting expands instead of contracts. If you like mail-in ballots because they are convenient, then you need to understand that the entire system is being exploited because our elections are sold out for the lie of “convenience.”
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