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Originally Posted by N-E-B
I’m not overly educated on this issue so I’ll ask and see what you guys think. Would it be a bad idea in future elections to limit mail-in ballots to citizens living/working abroad, military personnel, and those with severe disabilities that prevent them from leaving home? I think they could extend in-person voting by a few days to reduce wait times at the polls. Maybe give three days to vote in person? I just don’t see any reason Joe Blow who lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia needs to be mailing in a ballot instead of voting in person.
I understand the concerns with COVID this year but there has to be a way to avoid this fiasco in the future.
I don’t know how feasible this is and I might be overlooking some problems here.
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It's actually the other way. Mail in voting should be encouraged and is the future of voting.
The answer is to extend the mail in voting window. Start well before the election and allow those votes to be counted upon receipt (without releasing the results).
Whether that window goes from a month before election day to a week after or a month before and three days after is up for debate but it doesn't matter too much. The answer is more mail in voting, better USPS delivery, more drop off places, more vote counting upon receipt of ballots.
This entire dumpster fire was created because some states weren't allowed to even look at the mail in ballots until the in person ballots were done. That's idiotic.
They also need more equipment to handle the volume. It is part of the reason AZ is so slow IIRC.