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Originally Posted by Manhattanboy
is it just me or is the concept of "mail in balloting" new to this US election cycle?
In past elections limited numbers of absentee ballots were allowed for overseas armed forces personnel and ex-pats. The numbers were small.
In this election huge numbers of voters did not vote in person and I am starting to think there may be something to the risk of serious fraud.
Maybe future elections should be limited to in-person voting with limited exceptions. Like..... in Canada?
EDIT: I get that this was done because of Covid. Should these votes not have been counted in advance?
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In a modern democracy where everyone over the age of 18 has the vote there is no way to commit fraud by physically filling in the ballots no matter how they are cast, the numbers are just too huge, in order to 'fix' say Arizona by physical ballot, mail in or otherwise you'd need to get your hands on 80,000 ballots minimally, that's about 2% of the voters, you really need more than that but at the very least you need 2% as you have no idea how close the race is, you need to fiddle enough ballots to 'fix' a non close race or it is all completely pointless, those 80,000 ballots are all attached to real people, you cant just print off your own copies, you have to intercept, steal and then fill in 80,000 odd ballots, not only that they have to be ballots of the other side, persuading 80,000 of your own people to look the other way or not complain when their ballot doesnt show up is pointless, it has to be the other sides ballots you steal, it just isnt possible without hundreds of people involved, even if you could manage that most of those 80,000 will complain or turn up at the polling station and your evil plan will be exposed.
There is just no danger of secret voter fraud being an issue at a national level anywhere with physical ballots unless its in some third world country where we all know the election is corrupt and they barely bother to hide the fact and even there we know its happening.