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Re:Jeff Bezos and Amazon do not want their workers voting by... by AnthonyMouse on Sunday January 24, 2021 @03:03AM (#25890271)
Secret ballots were devised in response to people historically doing things like this. Then they stopped happening because the countermeasures worked. If you take away the countermeasures, what then? Have criminals ceased to exist? Are the incentives somehow different now?
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Re:Jeff Bezos and Amazon do not want their workers voting by... by lsiebert on Sunday January 24, 2021 @03:37AM (#25890399)
Three states exclusively use mail in ballots (starting with Oregon in 2000 I believe so at least 20 years), and if there is epidemic of criminal kneecapping going on, I feel like we'd have heard about it by now.
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Re:Jeff Bezos and Amazon do not want their workers voting by... by ddingus on Sunday January 24, 2021 @08:47PM (#25898146)
BTW, I believe Oregon started VBM in 1996.
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Re:Jeff Bezos and Amazon do not want their workers voting by... by lsiebert on Monday January 25, 2021 @01:51AM (#25900113)
Looks like they were voting on senators in 96, passed a measure in 98, and had their first all mail vote in 2000.

Apparently it also saves a bunch of money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote-by-mail_in_Oregon

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Re:Jeff Bezos and Amazon do not want their workers voting by... by ddingus on Sunday January 24, 2021 @05:39AM (#25890939)
Absolutely we would have.
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