Mail-in ballots go missing

Vote-in-person advocacy groups often claim that mail-in voting ballots are likely to go missing. They cite data from the Federal Election Assistance Commission that between 2012 and 2018, 28.3 million mail-in ballots have remained unaccounted for.^[1] The President of the United States supported and championed the missing ballot narrative. He believes that the 2020 election is going to be disastrous because mail-in ballots will be lost and found in discarded piles.^[2] A substantial number of ballots never make it into the hands of election officials. Often there are never clear reasons why these ballots never reached the proper destination. Because state and local authorities cannot provide concrete explanations for what became of these ballots, the logical explanation is that they got misplaced in the convoluted system that is voting by mail. The millions of unaccounted for mail-in ballots justify the argument that mail-in ballots should be banned for the 2020 U.S. Elections.