This would create a record that could then be used to examine the signature on the ballot and charge the person with voter fraud.
Note: not many states have changed their laws on vote by mail this year, so theoretical VBM fraud could have been done by submitting fraudulent ballot applications in most past elections too. The main difference this year is more voters are expected to use the no-excuse absentee ballot that was already available to them in other years.
No, they would not be considered acceptable in a computing application. But in computing, it’s considered acceptable to discriminate against users for the sake of security.
I’m unaware of any major democracy that uses computerized voting with a username, password, and 2FA to replace the traditional ballot box, for obvious UX reasons. (Never mind that computerized results might actually be easier to forge than paper ballots).
Regardless of what is “acceptable” it is a fact that widespread voter fraud using the mechanisms proposed would be detectable.
We’ve had voting for centuries, and done it without ID requirements.
Not sure how ID requirements would work in the several states that have done all-mail-in ballots for decades successfully.
A few hindered ballots from a [left/right] leaning district going missing can be enough.
Don’t even need to have individual fraud, just some stats on how likely one area is to vote then “wrong” way.
Hell nursing homes or others could easily swing lots of votes by a single staff.
I’ve dealt with plenty of high officials that have negative documents go missing. It’s just routine for many.
We also don't need to sit around speculating about this because the data we have on voter fraud already tells us that it's incredibly rare.
What we should focus on is the 1 in 10 voters here who had a ballot rejected for primarily UX reasons that could be fixed. That's a problem which is supported by facts and could be fixed. Instead the current administration is gutting the USPS and making voting even more difficult in the middle of a pandemic. My ballot application is already taking twice as long to get in as it did last year. How is that OK?