Watermelon Man said:
Keegan99 said:
Not alternative at all.
I realize you like to think the process somehow masks those flaws, but it does not.
A simple thought experiment is all that's necessary.
If I receive, say, a senile family member's ballot at my home, fill it out, and submit it, complete with a reasonable signature (since I know what it looks like) and other identifying information (since I have access to all of that), then how can the election authorities possibly know that it was I, not my family member, that completed and submitted the ballot? The family member, being senile, would be wholly unaware.
The inability to protect against that scenario - and countless others - is why the process is inherently insecure. The controls are inadequate since the ballot is unmonitored.
A secure process does not just work the overwhelming majority of the time. It is not just assumed to be ok if there are no reported problems. No, it must be bulletproof, so that a nefarious actor is plainly unable to abuse it.
Voting by mail has gaping holes ripe for exploit.
This is just the smoke and mirrors stuff that the whole BIG LIE is based on.
How many of these kind of shenanigans do you think are going on? Is there any reason to believe it is primarily one-sided? If you had any evidence that this actually occurs, why do you have to keep playing these "but, it COULD happen" games instead of laying out the evidence?
Sure, the system is not bulletproof. There is no way to make it bulletproof and still have it be fair to all people. Our representative democracy (or, democratic republic, take your choice) works because the leaders have to promote ideas that appeal to the majority of voters in order to achieve or remain in power. When you start to restrict the number of voters, it doesn't take long for the ideas of the leaders to no longer represent those of the people.
The simple fact is that mail-in voting is secure and used in a large number of US States, the people living there like it (both Democrats and Republicans), and it is used to elect both Democratic and Republican leaders. You don't even try to refute this, but simply continue to whine, "it's obviously unfair, my guy didn't win."
It doesn't matter if it is a Republican or a Democrat that is doing the fraud. They should ALL do the time, so that argument is out.
And again, for the 23548710918327 time. We aren't necessarily against mail in voting as a whole. We are against MASS mailing of mail in ballot to EVERY SINGLE VOTER. Mail in voting should require a valid reason. Otherwise, you can take yourself to a voting booth like every other normal person.
Mailing out ballots to every single person on the voting rolls is rife with problems.
1. People steal mail all the time. Someone in my family was convicted as a mail carrier stealing mail with gift cards and other things. There are stories from 2020 where the postal worker on the route just threw ballots in the ditch.
2. Does that person still live at the address in the voter file? I moved and didn't update my voter card, and had to do it shortly before election day. Who gets that ballot? I wouldn't have if it were mailed to the voter file. Does the person who gets it throw it away? Send it back? Very doubtful that the state would mail it back out again.
3. In AZ, they did signature analysis, and thousands of mail in envelopes didn't even have a signature, or a signature that didn't match the voter file. And they accepted them. I am sure this is not just in AZ.