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Re:One in 10 ballots rejected in last month’s vote-by-mail e... by AnthonyMouse on Monday August 10, 2020 @05:21PM (#24114131)
It's not as if signatures are going to do that. Especially not any of the types of fraud that involve coercion or payment for votes. If you're paying someone for their vote they can still sign their name. One of the reasons it needs to be secret is to make it impossible for anyone to verify that you voted the way they want you to.

I still don't understand how voting in person is supposed to be any more problematic than e.g. buying groceries in person. Wear a mask, stand six feet apart etc., what's the problem?

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Re:One in 10 ballots rejected in last month’s vote-by-mail e... by oramit on Monday August 10, 2020 @05:48PM (#24114404)
It's not any more problematic for the voters, yes, but what about the poll workers? They stay there all day and skew older. The big concern is that reliable poll workers are going to skip this year because of COVID (not unreasonable) and we simply won't have people to facilitate the voting we normally do. https://www.npr.org/2020/08/05/894331965/wanted-young-people...
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Re:One in 10 ballots rejected in last month’s vote-by-mail e... by AnthonyMouse on Monday August 10, 2020 @06:06PM (#24114582)
Would it be that hard to put a sheet of clear plastic between the poll workers and the voters?
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Re:One in 10 ballots rejected in last month’s vote-by-mail e... by oramit on Monday August 10, 2020 @06:42PM (#24114965)
You can put all the protections in place you want but if volunteers don't feel safe, they won't show.
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Re:One in 10 ballots rejected in last month’s vote-by-mail e... by tzs on Monday August 10, 2020 @07:03PM (#24115168)
> I still don't understand how voting in person is supposed to be any more problematic than e.g. buying groceries in person. Wear a mask, stand six feet apart etc., what's the problem?

Grocery stores don't have checkout lines that are hours long where you are standing around near the same group of strangers for an extended time.

Worse, the states with the longest, slowest voting lines also tend to be the states with less stringent mask requirements, less diligent enforcement of the requirements they do have, and more people who ignore the requirements.

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