Originally Posted by
killramos
If mass mail in balloting was a good idea what was stopping us from doing it until now?
“Safe” is a weird word to use, I don’t think anyone is implying mail in ballots represent danger. But ultimately there is no way to verify that the person who fills in a ballot is actually who they say they are. I can’t even stand behind my grandpa at a polling station while he votes, or walk his ballot over to the collecting receptical, these were all things we considered important until 15 minutes ago.
The real question is whether you think secure, verified, unpressured voting is important to you or not. TDSers as Buster mentioned, seem to not care that much about this.
I also see little to no reason as to why we can’t just have polling stations open, but just spread the voting out more such that fewer people are there at once. If polling takes 2-3 months who cares, takes away a ton of the spectacle of election night but that is a pretty dumb reason and reality if mail in voting happens anyway.
One thing I know for sure, letting the government do something this massive and in a Centralized way is a guaranteed way to end up cocking the whole thing up. It’s just in their nature.