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Re:Senate Unanimously Approves a Bill to Make Juneteenth a P... by torstenvl on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @12:18PM (#27530247)
No you cannot have both. Once a ballot is sent out via the mail, there is no physical control over it. It is therefore impossible to ensure the ballot is secret, which makes it impossible to know whether the voter is being bribed/coerced.
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Re:Senate Unanimously Approves a Bill to Make Juneteenth a P... by gfodor on Thursday June 17, 2021 @11:56AM (#27541035)
It’s funny your comment is downvoted because what you state is self evidentially true.

In general, sacrificing this important principle was acceptable if the alternative was to disenfranchise the voter (eg, they are overseas.) Now it seems there are many who want to just throw it away in the name of making voting “more accessible” in general. This is a pretty bad stance imo unless you assume it is cost-free, which it isn’t.

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