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> I’m honestly baffled why people are against mail in voting. It's a system that is easily abused. Traditionally, where I grew up, the problem with postal vot
by dingaling 6y ago
> I’m honestly baffled why people are against mail in voting.
It's a system that is easily abused.
Traditionally, where I grew up, the problem with postal voting was voter intimidation. Recipients would be told by 'community leaders' to bring their ballot papers to a central location where they were completed en masse with the 'correct' choices made and sent back.
Those who declined were physically assaulted.
Even on a less organised scale it is open to the 'head of household' telling the others how to vote.
- djaque 6y ago> Those who declined were physically assaulted. Anecdotes aren't the same as data and that story certainly doesn't characterize the general practice of mail in voting. Do you have any data on your claim that organized voter intimidation is a widespread problem? Surely something as extraordinary as that would receive major media attention. All the stories I can find are of basically white supremacy group intimidating black voters at in person voting locations.
- sukilot 6y agoThese are valid concerns. Group voting today is easy to combat with phone cameras and social media, though. But on the third hard, all parts of the political compass are showing that when crime becomes a national pastime, it's impossible to stop most of it. Head of household voting is a problem, especially with candidates with large differences in support by gender in cohabitating couples. But accessibility of polling centers is also a problem (for which the only possible excuse is corruption. Trillions of dollars for war machine but almost none for securing the democracy the war machine is supposed to be defending.)