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Re:Mail delays hit Philadelphia residents, short staffed USP... by newsclues on Sunday August 02, 2020 @06:07PM (#24032195)
The idea that we would be voting in 2020 by mail is crazy.

I cannot believe that no one foresaw an election in a pandemic and said, “let’s build an app for this”

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Re:Mail delays hit Philadelphia residents, short staffed USP... by throwaway5752 on Sunday August 02, 2020 @06:11PM (#24032222)
I think you are vastly underestimating the difficulty in automating this. This has been proposed for decades and there is published academic research about the extraordinary difficulty of ensuring the integrity of the voters and the tallies. You can look at literature on the challenges with REAL ID implementation or Healthcare.gov for similar and smaller projects.
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Re:Mail delays hit Philadelphia residents, short staffed USP... by rabidrat on Sunday August 02, 2020 @08:42PM (#24033051)
Extremely relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2030/
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