Here's why to NOT vote by mail!
It is not as demonstrably secret.
When votes are cast at a polling place, witnesses can see that voters are checked for eligibility and that it is they who cast their votes and are free from either coercion or oversight.
When a mail in vote is received by the elections supervisor to be counted, all that can be witnessed is that the signature on the outside envelope which contains the ballot belongs to a registered voter. What is not witnessed and cannot be known is if the ballot contained in the envelope was actually filled out by the person who signed the envelope. What also cannot be known is, even if the voter whose name is on the outside envelope filled out the ballot, whether that ballot was filled out under some sort of duress or coercion or as a result of a payment received by the voter.
When you consider the fact that most elections have low voter turnout, is it impossible to imagine that a vote broker could find registered but uninterested voters to sign the outside of ballot mailing envelopes that contain ballots filled out by the vote brokers? And it doesn’t take a lot of votes to swing many elections.
If you were being tried in a court, would you be satisfied if you never saw the jury, but only was read their alleged verdict so that you cannot know who made up the jury or even if there was one? That is what advocates of mail in balloting are asking their fellow citizens to accept.
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