I think the issue with mail in and drop off and early voting is the way it allows political machines to manipulate and structure the outcomes. You should liste

I think the issue with mail in and drop off and early voting is the way it allows political machines to manipulate and structure the outcomes. You should listen to the radiolab podcast about the hassidic jews that simply showed up at the polling place, counted how many people voted and then bussed in enough people to assure that they could comfortably win to take over a school board that their students did not go to. The issue with voting that doesn’t involve showing up at a polling place that day is that its not hard to fill in someone elses ballot if you get access to a lot of them or to tabulate who voted to figure out how many additional votes you need to manipulate the result. Etc etc. I think if you’ve read the wisdom of crowds or lived in a machine politics city like Chicago or listened to that podcast, you can accept the idea that democracy is best when people show up at a polling place with an actual id and vote at the same time limiting everyone elses knowledge of the results or access to different ways to manipulate the process.