Voting by mail is convenient & legal; why don't some people like it?

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Data shows it's gotten easier to vote in the U.S. since 2000​



For all the concern in recent years that U.S. democracy is on the brink, in danger or under threat, the facts offer a glimmer of good news for American voters worried that casting a ballot will be difficult in 2024.

Put simply, the data shows that voting in America has gotten easier over the past two decades.

More voters have the ability to cast a ballot before Election Day, with the majority of U.S. states now offering some form of mail voting to all voters.

"Although we often talk in a partisan context about voter fraud and voter suppression and whether voters have access to the ballot, the reality is, over the past 25 years, we've greatly increased the convenience of voting for almost all Americans," said David Becker, the founder and executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research (CEIR).

As options nationwide have become more widely available, voters have also responded by taking advantage.



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The Postal Museum collection tracks mail-in voting as far back as the 18th century in the United States, with a folded letter holding the results from the 1792 election in York County, Massachusetts, or what is now southern Maine, logging 40 votes for John Hancock and 29 for Samuel Adams.

In those days, men (the only people allowed to participate) in Massachusetts could mail in votes if their homes were “vulnerable to Indian attack,” as historian Alex Keyssar wrote in his 2000 book, The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States.

There was a special push in 1864 because of worries about Abraham Lincoln’s re-election.

In the decades after the war, mail-in voting evolved and became more widespread.

Pictures of President Calvin Coolidge and first lady Grace Coolidge show them being sworn in as meeting the criteria for Massachusetts absentee voting in 1924 and sitting at a small wooden table picturesquely placed on the White House South Lawn. It was only the second time the first lady could cast such a vote in a presidential election—the 19th Amendment securing women’s right to vote was ratified in 1920.

One photograph shows another historical moment: Alice Fujinaga, one of the over 120,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated in government camps during World War II, waiting for her 1942 absentee ballot to be notarized at California’s Camp Tule Lake, the largest of the ten War Relocation Authority Camps.

World War II and its massive displacements of soldiers increased the demand for mail-in voting. Millions of ballot request postcards were distributed to personnel in the armed forces deployed around the world. All 48 states at the time had established absentee voting for military personnel.

“It’s really a huge machine of people that makes our elections run,” says Carrie Villar, the museum’s director of curatorial affairs. “And it’s amazing when you think: We have over 10,000 jurisdictions, and all of them have their own sets of rules. We don’t have one national standard of how to run an election. The fact that we can get pretty good results on election night and have it go so smoothly, it’s really kind of amazing.”


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Here’s what to know about voting by mail in the 2024 election​



A majority of states in the U.S. allow universal mail-in voting without any specific qualifications.

Just 14 states place restrictions on who can request — and receive — a ballot.

Voting is not a privilege in the United States. If you are an eligible voter, it is your right to cast a ballot, and the last thing we need is to have people discouraging people from doing so.



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Early voting is under way in several states and mail ballots are already arriving in others.

I can predict with unfortunate certainty how Trump will behave before and after Election Day because we've all seen it before. And that particular old dog isn't learning any new tricks.

Modern-day election denialism, with Trump as its most duplicitous practitioner, can be defined by three distinct phases.

  1. First, unfounded claims are made about election integrity long before the ballots are printed. Trump loves to harp about mail ballots, even as the Republican National Committee urges voters to use them. Republicans this year have also leaned hard into unsubstantiated claims about widespread voting by noncitizens.
  2. In the second phase – which we're in now – election deniers desperately try to link actual ballots being cast to their disinformation about voter fraud. Republicans, valuing fealty to Trump over service for country, are now trying to disenfranchise the votes cast by military members deployed overseas.
  3. The final phase, which starts when the polls close on Election Day, is a simple two-pronged plan – prematurely declare victory while claiming, without evidence, that ballots are being tallied in a dishonest manner. That's what Trump did in the early morning hours of the Wednesday after Election Day in 2020.

Trump never admitted that lie. Why won't he try it again if he is again losing?

usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/10/20/trump-republicans-2024-election-misinformation-voter-fraud/75722624007/
 
Hawkeye10 said:
The desire for honest elections?

Just spitballing here......
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The ONLY reason the MAGA / right wing MORONS think there is fraud or the elections, we have are " RIGGED" is because they are SO STUPID to believe an ASSHOLE that Claimed it was " RIGGED " WAY , WAY before the 2016 election was EVEN HELD.
I still want to know just HOW does Trump know it was RIGGED.
Aren't things usually " RIGGED " in favor of the winner? I have NEVER heard of anything RIGGED in favor of the LOSER.
He said it was " rigged " and HE won SO just how does he know it was rigged ? Dose HE know Who " rigged " it ,
Did HE rig it?
The 2024 election will be the closest watched election in history and the MAGA WILL still cry it was rigged OR there was Massive fraud .
Heck they already are.
 
The Harris Administration said:

Here’s what to know about voting by mail in the 2024 election​



A majority of states in the U.S. allow universal mail-in voting without any specific qualifications.

Just 14 states place restrictions on who can request — and receive — a ballot.

Voting is not a privilege in the United States. If you are an eligible voter, it is your right to cast a ballot, and the last thing we need is to have people discouraging people from doing so.



wfyi.org/news/articles/heres-what-to-know-about-voting-by-mail-in-the-2024-election
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Here's what to really know about mail-in elections. Virtually every nation besides the US severely restricts it or bans it completely.

www.newsweek.com

Voting Fraud Is a Real Concern. Just Look Around the World

If concern about voter fraud with mail-in ballots is delusional, it is a delusion that is shared by most of the world.
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Fact Check: Meme Listing Countries That Forbid Mail-In Voting Is NOT Fully Accurate -- Especially As To Citizens Living Abroad | Lead Stories

Does a meme about mail-in voting correctly describe which countries forbid it? No, the list is misleading regarding some countries,...
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Since persons, like you, often use the Appeal to Authority / Popularity fallacy to argue the US should have universal healthcare, by that standard you should be arguing that since most nations ban mail-in voting with few exceptions or completely, the US should do so too.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Here's what to really know about mail-in elections. Virtually every nation besides the US severely restricts it or bans it completely. Since persons, like you, often use the Appeal to Authority / Popularity fallacy to argue the US should have universal healthcare, by that standard you should be arguing that since most nations ban mail-in voting with few exceptions or completely, the US should do so too.
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Non sequitur.
 
The Harris Administration said:

Data shows it's gotten easier to vote in the U.S. since 2000​



For all the concern in recent years that U.S. democracy is on the brink, in danger or under threat, the facts offer a glimmer of good news for American voters worried that casting a ballot will be difficult in 2024.

Put simply, the data shows that voting in America has gotten easier over the past two decades.

More voters have the ability to cast a ballot before Election Day, with the majority of U.S. states now offering some form of mail voting to all voters.

"Although we often talk in a partisan context about voter fraud and voter suppression and whether voters have access to the ballot, the reality is, over the past 25 years, we've greatly increased the convenience of voting for almost all Americans," said David Becker, the founder and executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research (CEIR).

As options nationwide have become more widely available, voters have also responded by taking advantage.



npr.org/2024/03/19/1238646047/voting-options-early-mail-ballots
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The mobster tricked them into believing its fake, even though he does it.
 
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