You will need to find some evidence of voter fraud for mail in ballots. Many states have it as an option and it hasn't happened. The military regularly votes by mail and it hasn't happened.

It's funny you open your reply about "absurdly dramatic" then lay an equally absurd claim about vote-by-mail having a problem with fraud.

Your reply also conveniently ignores the historical pattern of voter suppression coming from the Republican party.

It seems in America, some constitutional rights are more protected than others.

Some of the polling places will be open.

Louisville, Ky., with 600,000 people, gets one voting location today (https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/23/louisville-ky-with-60...)

Did Consolidating Polling Places in Milwaukee Depress Turnout? (https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/did-...)

Polling Places Remain a Target Ahead of November Elections (https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/sta...)

IN SOUTH CAROLINA, A PEEK AT COVID-19’S IMPACT ON ELECTIONS (https://publicintegrity.org/politics/elections/in-south-caro...)

Right, the bottom feeders... The people slaving away at two minimum wage jobs trying to make ends meet? The criminals... The small time weed dealers who decided they didn't want to work two minimum wage jobs to make ends meet? Demeaning these people shows you right there the misguided mindset of the arrogant.

Sometimes when you find yourself throwing out baseless accusations and making sweeping generalizations about the root causes of complex systemic issues, it can be useful to step back and ask yourself if your opinion is really bulletproof and rooted in reality, or if you just think it is.

btw calling people bottom feeders generally implies that you have a problem with them.

It's not often someone (100% sure you're a republican) just admits that they think some people's votes are more valuable than another.

All lives matter, right?

The right to vote applies equally to everyone; this includes access.

But the military I think we can trust more than the Postal Service, every time we hear of a postal employee destroying or throwing away mail should be a significant enough reason that the agency is simply not ready to take this on. Maybe at the next election, maybe with a significantly more funding, transparency, and security, but not now. Mail in voting would be great, but not now. It’s far too dangerous.

Tell that to people that live in Colorado, Oregon, Washington, or (mostly) Utah. They've been voting by mail for years.

I'd worry a lot more about computerized election systems before voting by mail. I think people are too worried about individual votes/errors. 0.0x% of ballots being lost/not counted/etc. is a problem with any election system ("hanging chads", signatures not matching well, ...), not just voting by mail. The question should be how hard is it to pull off a large scale disruption/fraud without being detected.

Your own current president always votes by mail. If it’s fine for him why on Earth do you think that it’s not fine for everyone else?

The coronavirus has been recognized as an issue since before March. The only reason why there is not better safeguards in place for vote by mail is because the ruling party does not want it to happen.

The fact that you're not familiar with the ballot authentication and verification mechanisms used in mail-in voting suggests a starting point for your research.

Several states have had mail-in voting for years. It only became a political issue a few months ago, and only amongst one party.

Meanwhile, rigged voting machines that flip votes have been caught on camera countless times. Zero effort has been made to do anything about that.

> All it takes is one or a few bad actors to skew the results.

Most elections aren't close enough for the outcome to be swung by the kind of paper ballot fraud that a single person is capable of committing. Unlike electronic hacks, paper ballot fraud doesn't scale.