I would agree with listening to the concerns of "the other side", but thus far their concerns do not include good-faith attempts at solving problems.
Largely their "concerns" seem to be that vote-by-mail will circumvent the large amount of effort they've spent to make it harder for poor people to vote.
The president has literally said that he doesn't like vote-by-mail because it makes it impossible for him to win and called it a coup. How do you even begin to work with that?
The President is opposed to ballots mailed indiscriminately to everyone, and supports those requested by the voter.
Based on the comments in this thread it's pretty clear why: People move all the time, and the state does not necessarily have a current address for everyone.
Also the reverse problem: The current resident gets the ballot and tries to vote with it.
That's part of the whole signature verification thing that isn't working well.
Officially the post office is supposed to do return to sender if the name doesn't match, but I suspect in apartments with frequent turnover they can't realistically do that.
Having the voter request the ballot gets rid of all of that trouble.
> Also the reverse problem: The current resident gets the ballot and tries to vote with it.
Any kind of double voting shenanigans should be pretty straightforward to detect. So when it happens, you [at least] invalidate the second attempt, and forward the details over to the police for investigation and prosecution.
The thing about voting is that most of the legwork in verifying voters is done in advance of any election. By the time you get to ballot-casting, the hard part is done.
If you want to affect the outcome of the election, you will need to change a lot more than a single vote. Each ballot you steal, next to worthless all by itself, opens you up to detection, and vote tampering comes with heavy penalties.
You need to find a systemic vulnerability, otherwise the risk is much too high and the odds of success much too low. Vote-by-mail isn't actually a worry unless you have an ideological position based on the current election, you should really worry about the electronic voting machines used in many places that have in-person voting. The potential for systemic fraud there is much, much higher.
Ironically perhaps, but the GP's post is decidedly not in "good-faith" IMO.
The argument that Republicans want to "make it harder for poor people to vote" is a red herring regarding the voter ID debate.
Similarly, Trump's position on mail-in-ballots, as far as I can tell, is that that the expected ease of large scale voter fraud by relatively few bad actors will make it impossible to win. I have no clue if that's true or not, but to frame the stated claim without also acknowledging the underlying potential issue seems misleading.
Largely their "concerns" seem to be that vote-by-mail will circumvent the large amount of effort they've spent to make it harder for poor people to vote.
The president has literally said that he doesn't like vote-by-mail because it makes it impossible for him to win and called it a coup. How do you even begin to work with that?