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I live in Oregon where all voting is done by mail and it has been done that way for decades. We're not alone either, a few other states and local governments do
by oramit 6y ago
I live in Oregon where all voting is done by mail and it has been done that way for decades. We're not alone either, a few other states and local governments do this.
Is the problem with vote by mail itself, or just a bad implementation?
- gojomo 6y agoOregon has had a lot of time to practice. Also, it's a fairly orderly & well-managed state overall. Places improvising mass mail-in voting for the 1st time, and with deeper histories of political-machine voting abuses, are going to have more troubles.
- mulderc 6y agoVirtually all states have some type of vote by mail systems already. They just need the funding to expand them. Something that should have happened long long ago.
- gojomo 6y agoThere is no bureaucratic governmental labor-intensive process that "just needs funding" to expand instantly. They also need time & multiple experience/training/improvement cycles. This is especially true in foundational processes where, in some cases, the slow rate of change & large involvement of many competing groups is part of its institutional legitimacy. Oregon's system was incrementally expanded for additional, and larger, elections over 15 years: https://multco.us/elections/brief-history-vote-mail-oregon https://multco.us/elections/brief-history-vote-mail-oregon