In-mail voting
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talkpoliticsDiscussion: In what types of ways can mail in ballots be subject to fraud? How would you make elections more secure?
When someone votes in person, they have to be physically present. Being able to mass mail in ballots takes away leverage from election integrity. The 2020 election was decided by just 40,000 votes across multiple swing states.
"Heartland/Rasmussen Poll: One-in-Five Mail-In Voters Admit to Committing at Least One Kind of Voter Fraud During 2020 Election"
One of the questions the study doesn't appear to ask is how many of the votes that were technically fraudulent actually ended up with the vote supporting the wrong candidate? i.e if you illegally completed a ballot for say your mom who forgot to do it herself in time, but she chose who the supported candidates were, the vote is technically fraudulent, but didn't 'change' the result in the way people talking about voter fraud generally infer.
You could do away with mail in voting outside of a more tightly controlled criteria, but to do that you'd need thousands more polling stations, better access over a longer period and hours etc to make sure that everyone who wants to vote can reasonably do so. Shift the final day of voting to a Sunday where most people don't have competing work requirements etc etc like most other countries do. More ideas of how to make this work?
When someone votes in person, they have to be physically present. Being able to mass mail in ballots takes away leverage from election integrity. The 2020 election was decided by just 40,000 votes across multiple swing states.
"Heartland/Rasmussen Poll: One-in-Five Mail-In Voters Admit to Committing at Least One Kind of Voter Fraud During 2020 Election"
One of the questions the study doesn't appear to ask is how many of the votes that were technically fraudulent actually ended up with the vote supporting the wrong candidate? i.e if you illegally completed a ballot for say your mom who forgot to do it herself in time, but she chose who the supported candidates were, the vote is technically fraudulent, but didn't 'change' the result in the way people talking about voter fraud generally infer.
You could do away with mail in voting outside of a more tightly controlled criteria, but to do that you'd need thousands more polling stations, better access over a longer period and hours etc to make sure that everyone who wants to vote can reasonably do so. Shift the final day of voting to a Sunday where most people don't have competing work requirements etc etc like most other countries do. More ideas of how to make this work?
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