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Re:Why online voting is harder than online banking by PaulDavisThe1st on Saturday September 12, 2020 @03:49PM (#24455021)
Taking this seriously (which might be a bad idea), what level of mail in voting do you oppose? Are you 100% against it? What happens if someone will be out of their town/state/country for a few weeks around the election? Should they be able to vote by mail? What about students who are registered to vote at their parents address but live elsewhere? How about people who are sick and cannot safely make it to a polling station?

How many of these sorts of cases are you OK with? Less than 1% of the total votes? 10%? 50%?

Re:Why online voting is harder than online banking by jquery on Saturday September 12, 2020 @05:28PM (#24455919)
I’m ok with absentee ballots, as long as they arrive before Election Day. I’m not ok with unsolicited mail-in ballots trickling in after Election Day which is what we are going to get. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/09/04/faceboo...

Hell, just look at the article. It acknowledges the high costs of mail-in voting. Then engages in classic double-think to defend it:

>“Trump has repeatedly baselessly claimed mail-in voting will lead to a “rigged” election—despite mail-in voter fraud being extremely rare—and decried the fact that the vote could take longer to count, saying the nation “must know election results on the night of the election.” >Facebook blocked videos of Trump encouraging North Carolina voters to vote twice—which election officials warned would be a felony—Thursday, but has not taken action on the president’s Facebook post making similar comments.“

Well which is it? Does mail-in lead to fraud or not? Trump’s allegations are apparently “baseless” but at the same time he got muzzled when he suggested his voters make sure their vote was counted. This is a fucking circus.

Re:Why online voting is harder than online banking by PaulDavisThe1st on Saturday September 12, 2020 @11:33PM (#24458067)
"muzzled" ... the president of the united states of america was "muzzled" because FB blocked videos of him? are you serious?