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Re:Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning by blhack on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @08:02PM (#23317941)
>Are mail in ballots for everyone really a "radical alteration" of their voting system? Local governments already have the capacity to send and receive thousands of pieces of mail, and the method of counting ballots is the exact same.

How would you set up this system if you were tasked with it?

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Re:Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning by SauciestGNU on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @10:58PM (#23318941)
Every state already has absentee voting. I would expect that the system will follow the same procedures as already exist for absentee voting, hiring more clerk and postal staff as necessary.
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Re:Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning by tylerhou on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @04:32PM (#23329569)
The same as normal ballot counting, except instead of receiving in person ballots, volunteers count mail in ballots.

Sending mail and receiving mail is already a solved problem. The post office handles nearly half a billion pieces of mail each day, and 200 million pieces of first class mail.

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