Just what I said: Voting in person is a ritual. You can take your kids with you and show them the foundation of our democracy, right there at your local polling

Just what I said: Voting in person is a ritual. You can take your kids with you and show them the foundation of our democracy, right there at your local polling place. Doing things in person has a different psychological effect. Whether or not that's enough of a problem to outweigh all the benefits of voting by mail, I don't know. It certainly lowers the actual barriers to voting: You don't need time off work to drop an envelope in a mailbox. But I do worry about the loss of ritual, and what it will do to voter engagement over a few decades.