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At the fundraiser tonight, Gessler and Navarro-Ratzlaff likely fired up the Warwick cocktail crowd by talking about the need to guard against voter fraud. It wouldn't be the first time they worked together to stoke heat around the issue.
In its internet afterlife, the mystery ballot was held up as evidence that recent electoral reforms were opening the state to fraud. In fact, it demonstrated the system is working as well as it ever has done, and maybe better.
Jon Keyser reported receiving two ballots in the mail last week. He tweeted photos of them and suggested the state's election system was unreliable. Unfortunately, he shredded one of them, so there's no way to gauge whether the system failed or not.