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It'd be more helpful if you provided specifics. Also, conflating postal balloting and COVID-19 is inappropriate. In principle, you should advocate for the Aust
by specialist 6y ago
It'd be more helpful if you provided specifics. Also, conflating postal balloting and COVID-19 is inappropriate.
In principle, you should advocate for the Australian Ballot, which is private voting and public counting.
The election integrity gold standard is casting ballots at poll sites which are tabulated onsite the moment the polls close and the results shared immediately.
Some of the larger identified risks of postal balloting, generally, are mass disenfranchisement, losing the secret ballot, ballots and votes lost to the process, making auditing much harder, and pre-tabulating votes (as ballots are received).
Specific precautions and safe guards are required to mitigate these risks. Even well intentioned election administrators often don't have the resources, skills, and experience to conduct large postal balloting (aka vote-by-mail).
Despite all the known risks, the benefit of enfranchising people who'd other wise not be able to vote is reason enough to support vote-by-mail.
In conclusion, at this time, the correct policy position at this time is to dramatically increase funding for election administration and deploy 1,000s of election observers.
- Simulacra 6y agoMail in voting could potentially expose a person’s vote. I don’t think we can trust the postal service to play fair, nor their carriers.
- xhkkffbf 6y agoI can't go into a long list of ways to attack the various systems. But if you go above, I link to two different stories. Mail in voting is just much easier to hack.
- specialist 6y agoThose two links do not imply what you think they imply. Those are problems with registrations, not ballots. If you truly consider problems with the VRDBs a high priority, then advocate for nationwide automatic universal voter registration, like every other mature democracy has done, thereby eliminating the problem. Further, I really do think you should compile an exhaustive list of all the problems and attack vectors you've found. Start by comparing and contrasting the procedures from misc jurisdictions. Observe some elections. Attend all the canvassing board meetings for an entire election cycle. Interview election administrators. Etc. What you learn may surprise you.
- xhkkffbf 6y agoBut they do. It's still fraud on the system. If you require people to go in person, there's only so much time in the day. Election workers will recognize them returning to vote with a different name. Those limitations don't affect mail in fraudsters.
- specialist 6y agoYa. I encourage you to learn how real world election administration is done. Ballot stuffing just isn't possible with the procedures used in King County and thru out Washington State. With poll sites, everyone had to sign in a poll book to receive a ballot. With postal ballots, they use ballot tracking and reconciliation reports. So. There are many valid election integrity criticisms. You haven't mentioned any of them yet.