I don't know if this counts as a doomer post, but I assume that most of the ballots are indeed authentic, official ballots. Who filled them out is another story completely - as we've seen, there were ballots submitted by "dead voters", i.e. someone filling out their ballot and sending it in. It doesn't matter if these ballots get sorted out when somebody double checks and finds the voter deceased - whoever filled out that ballot could just as well fill out other ballots for voters who are NOT deceased, and nobody would realize that, unless that voter somehow gets told they already have voted when they show up in person. Now, if you steal (or not deliver - looking at you here, USPS) ballots from areas that are traditionally low participation, if most of these people never show up to vote, they will never realize somebody voted in their stead. Also, if the poll workers simply not tell the voter that there already is a ballot cast in their name, but just silently have the in-person vote "overrule" the mail-in ballot (as I understand the process), the voter would also never know that there was another vote he just cancelled out. I'd really like to know if there is a way to check how many mail-in ballots were discarded because the voter showed up in person, if there is a way to check that, some "paper trail". Some might have legitimately wanted to change their vote, but who knows how many never showed up to vote and nobody would suspect "their" mail-in ballot was not submitted by them.