Mail-in Voting Debate
The cluster discusses the pros, cons, security vulnerabilities, and feasibility of mail-in voting compared to in-person voting, with examples from US states like California and Washington, and concerns about fraud, coercion, and scalability.
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Don't the same problems apply to voting by mail?
Mail in voting? Early voting last for up to 2 months. That doesn't scale to 100M votes
You have a mail-in voting system... for now.
Use the post office. Use paper ballots in the mail. Many security issues vanish if polling places are no longer rich targets. In my state of residence, my ballot is sent in the mail, and I get SMS notifications when it is sent to me and when it is counted.
Vote by mail is also vulnerable to this.
It's a 50/50 country. We're not going to get results known on election day, if for no other reason than that true absentee ballots (not convenience mail-in ballots) are a thing, and many jurisdictions don't allow them to be counted until election day. Since no proposed policy change gets us the outcome you're looking for, it doesn't make sense to inconvenience (and, really, jeopardize) votes in the name of achieving that goal.
Mail in ballots for everyone solves the problem imo (CA has this)
Why does the proportion of votes being mail in matter?
Vote by mail suffers from the baseball bat problem, yet it's not uncommon in the US.
Mail voting already exists and works fine, despite the scenario you're positing. I live in Washington state where it seems to be the default.