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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by jeanperrot on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @05:16PM (#20761926)
I like your point about incentivizing high turnout (and the resulting inter-state race for turnout). I wouldn't necessarily equate it with lax election laws though.

Oregon (where I live) is blessed with vote-by-mail -- it affords high turnout with high vote verifiability. Being able to consider & research arguments on both sides of the issues and candidates in detail before voting is fantastic.

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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by dane-pgp on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @10:00PM (#20763947)
> vote-by-mail -- it affords high turnout with high vote verifiability

Even if you could verify that a given vote is counted, it's much harder to verify that the voter's choice was not made under duress, or influenced by a bribe.

There are methods for mitigating these problems (like allowing an in-person vote to override your postal vote), but these have their own issues, and I worry that becoming accustomed to vote-by-mail will increase the calls for online-voting.

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