States that expanded mail voting already seeing a ‘turnout’ spike

T. A. Gardner said:
The problem is, you can't "wait until the last minute." Mail-in voting usually has a cutoff as much as several weeks to a week before the actual election. The reason is that you have to mail it in early enough that it is received by election day. Some Democrat states are expanding this where it's almost becoming a vote anytime on anything sort of process.

I'm not saying that mail-in balloting is unnecessary. It is. There are people, like those in the military, that cannot or may not be present to vote on election day. They are exceptions that shouldn't make the rule. That is, mail-in balloting should be the exception and in-person voting, with ID, on election day should be the rule.
If elections and voting are so important, then you should have the wherewithal to plan a little bit ahead and have a valid ID available and have made the time to show up and cast your vote.
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Most states that have early voting allow several weeks before Election Day to vote. So whether I vote early in person or by mail should make no difference. All you are doing is making more and more excuses so that people actually don't vote, Your party only wins when fewer people vote. To allow more people to vote is an absolute disaster for republicans.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
The problem is, you can't "wait until the last minute." Mail-in voting usually has a cutoff as much as several weeks to a week before the actual election. The reason is that you have to mail it in early enough that it is received by election day. Some Democrat states are expanding this where it's almost becoming a vote anytime on anything sort of process.

I'm not saying that mail-in balloting is unnecessary. It is. There are people, like those in the military, that cannot or may not be present to vote on election day. They are exceptions that shouldn't make the rule. That is, mail-in balloting should be the exception and in-person voting, with ID, on election day should be the rule.
If elections and voting are so important, then you should have the wherewithal to plan a little bit ahead and have a valid ID available and have made the time to show up and cast your vote.
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Nah, you just need to move into the 21st century.
 
Hello T. A. Gardner,

T. A. Gardner said:
The problem is, you can't "wait until the last minute." Mail-in voting usually has a cutoff as much as several weeks to a week before the actual election. The reason is that you have to mail it in early enough that it is received by election day. Some Democrat states are expanding this where it's almost becoming a vote anytime on anything sort of process.

I'm not saying that mail-in balloting is unnecessary. It is. There are people, like those in the military, that cannot or may not be present to vote on election day. They are exceptions that shouldn't make the rule. That is, mail-in balloting should be the exception and in-person voting, with ID, on election day should be the rule.
If elections and voting are so important, then you should have the wherewithal to plan a little bit ahead and have a valid ID available and have made the time to show up and cast your vote.
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Any state that has drop-off locations for mail-in ballots will accept hand delivered ballots until the end of election day.

The reason the president opposes the very same mail-in voting he himself uses, ( also known as: 'Do as I say, not as I do,' ) is because everyone knows the prospect of mail-in voting scares the heck out of Republicans the same way a large voter turn-out does. That's because most of the time there is a strong turn-out, Republicans lose.
 
I think the best solution is a compromise. Ballots are mailed out but must be turned in, in person (with few exceptions), including voter ID, on election day. This reduces lines at polling locations as all they need do is verify the voter and have them deposit their filled out ballot.

It eliminates the cost of mailing ballots (somebody has to pay) while reducing in-person voting to a simplified process that ensures that the voter is actually the person voting.
 
Phantasmal said:
The military is another example of mail in voting working.
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interesting you should choose that example......


When Americans vote for president in November, many of the 1.4 million active-duty U.S. military personnel stationed or deployed overseas will not know whether their absentee ballots have reached their home states to be counted. And the federal Election Assistance Commission, charged with monitoring their votes, may not know either.
Under the Help America Vote Act, the ballots of military and overseas voters are supposed to be tallied by their home states and sent to the EAC, which reports them to Congress. But a News21 analysis of the EAC’s data found at least 1 in 8 jurisdictions reported receiving more ballots than they sent, counting more ballots than they received or rejecting more ballots than they received.
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https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2016/08/24/reports-to-the-federal-government-about-military-voting-often-are-flawed/
 
floridafan said:
Did you see the clusterfuck in the Georgia primary? People waited hours to vote. Let those who want to vote in person do so, and for the others, they can mail a ballot in.
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given that the problems were all in Demmyrat run voting districts do you expect a demmycrat run mail in election to work out better?......
 
T. A. Gardner said:
I think the best solution is a compromise. Ballots are mailed out but must be turned in, in person (with few exceptions), including voter ID, on election day. This reduces lines at polling locations as all they need do is verify the voter and have them deposit their filled out ballot.

It eliminates the cost of mailing ballots (somebody has to pay) while reducing in-person voting to a simplified process that ensures that the voter is actually the person voting.
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I could settle for mail in votes verified by fingerprints......
 
PostmodernProphet said:
I could settle for mail in votes verified by fingerprints......
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That would be incredibly tough to do. First, most people wouldn't end up putting a good print on their ballot. Then there's a privacy issue involved in this. It would also involve everyone voting be fingerprinted when registering to vote and that would have to be part of a national database--like the one the FBI maintains on criminals.
Then there's the problem of verification against that database. Right now, it takes the FBI several days to run prints on someone in their database because it usually comes back with multiple matches that have to be analyzed by a skilled human analyst using computer support.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
I think the best solution is a compromise. Ballots are mailed out but must be turned in, in person (with few exceptions), including voter ID, on election day. This reduces lines at polling locations as all they need do is verify the voter and have them deposit their filled out ballot.

It eliminates the cost of mailing ballots (somebody has to pay) while reducing in-person voting to a simplified process that ensures that the voter is actually the person voting.
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You lose again honey bunch, mail in voting is the wave of the future. More and more states are adopting it, and there aint nothing you can do about it.
 
floridafan said:
You lose again honey bunch, mail in voting is the wave of the future. More and more states are adopting it, and there aint nothing you can do about it.
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That's a completely different argument from whether it is problematic, rife with potential for fraud, or any number of other arguments already presented here.
Aside from that, what happens when 'snail mail' dies off, which seems likely in the future too...? (Package delivery is a different animal)
 
floridafan said:
Who sets the polling place hours? Their location? Who decides to close those in minority neighborhoods?
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Are there not enough locations where you live? Actually here, they've opened new locations, closer to minority neighborhoods;)
 
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