Mail-In Voting Fiasco

Many say that mail-in voting is no different than absentee voting.  Why all the panic?  Why will it be a disaster, Trump?  One needs to request an absentee ballot.  In fact, if everyone requested an absentee ballot under the current system, we could do mail-in voting already.

One must apply for an absentee ballot.  Once the request has been submitted, the ballot is provided and the voter can send it in before the deadline.  Easy peasy.  But note that first part: one must apply for the ballot.  Under the proposed plan for mail-in voting, ballots will be mailed en masse to registered voters.  I still get mail for the previous owners of this house; will I get a ballot for them?  Could I send it in?  Under the current system, only 60% of voters bother to go to the polls.  It is under 50% during non-presidential election years.  How much you want to bet someone will collect that 40% of mailed ballots and send them in?  The opportunity for fraud is staggering.  Then there is the problem of rejecting ballots and delayed counts, like in the NY primary.  You can't reject 20% to 30% of the mail in votes and then declare a winner in a close contest that will be accepted by the losing side.  Heck, it turned into a court case.  Remember how well it went when the court 'decided' the 2000 election.  Now, that's the ballots that arrived to be counted.  What about the ones that got lost by the post office?  Not likely?  Well, CBS ran a test.  On the first batch, 3% didn't arrive.  Well, that's not so bad.  On the second batch, 21% didn't arrive.  Oh, this is going to go great.

Given 40% apathetic voters with 'unused' ballots, plus 3% to 20% loss in the mail, plus 20% to 30% mail-in ballot rejection, I am totally going to trust whatever the results are.  Yeah, there isn't going to be any doubt about the results.  If the mail-in results overturn the polling station results, look for Scott Adams' civil war to commence soon after.

If it is safe enough to go to the grocery store, it is safe enough to go to the polls.  If you can't be bothered to either go to the polls or at least apply for the absentee ballot, you shouldn't vote.