Mail in ballots .What a great idea .
NY State Democratic primary was held 3 weeks ago . They are still counting . Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney is in a tight contest with Suraj Patel. Only 800 of 65,000 absentee ballots had been tabulated as of Wed Thousands had been disqualified due to late post mark .
https://www.amny.com/politics/candid...late-postmark/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/n...?smid=tw-share
Absentee ballots should be reserved only for people who cannot make it to their designated polling place like they are sick, physically disabled, or serving the country abroad. Mail in ballots are done outside of all the supervision and control of election officials and outside the control of election observers of which there are at least one of each major party in attendance at each polling place .Mail in ballots absolutely destroys the transparency that is vital to trusting the process.
It also destroys the secrecy of the ballot ;another key part of the integrity of the process.
Really there is no control . Bans against electioneering near polling places are rendered useless. When someone votes from home voters can get unlawful assistance from any number of ways . Campaign staffers and political activists can go door to door and assist voters in filling out their form often they harvest them ie collect them and are then trusted to drop them off at the right polling place. Harvesting is such a common practice in some states that harvesters are paid by campaigns to collect absentee ballots from voters Some states try to control that by making it legal for only a near relative or guardian to deliver the ballot . But in states like California ? It's the wild wild west . There are no restrictions on harvesting ;either who can harvest ,or even how many ballots they can collect. .....That's if the ballots even make it to the proper place . Reports filed by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) on the 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018 elections, more than 28 million mail-in ballots effectively disappeared—their fate is listed as “unknown” by the EAC based on survey data sent to the EAC by state election officials
https://publicinterestlegal.org/file...12_2018-1P.pdf
If you think this can't lead to election fraud ;think again. It happened this year already in a special election for Patterson NJ mayor.
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/poli...nj-ag/2484797/
In that race ,as is in the current Maloney race ,nearly 20% of the ballots were tossed .
In NY alone the seats of two prominent Democrat incumbents are up for grabs with no decision in site 3weeks after the vote. Can you imagine how this will play out in a closely contested Presidential race ? Where thousands of districts around the country will be essentially doing a replay of Florida 2000 ? These "peaceful protests " we have seen this summer will have been dress rehearsals for the main event .