I live overseas. My ballot was sent on the 18th of September and I still haven’t received it. Fortunately, they make it easy to mark it, print it and email it back. I’m just super weirded out about not receiving it though.
And it is freaking fantastic. EVERYONE in this country should have the option of mailing in their votes. If only we didn’t have Regressives in charge, and olive branchers on the other side…
By not having this easy option, it is really telling that our government does not want us to vote.
I think it’s nutty we still can’t figure out a secure online voting system. Estonia has for decades.
Online voting is a bad idea, generally speaking. Computers are much less “transparent” to humans compared to other humans counting papers, so it’s much easier for the operator to rig. This is even ignoring the fact that it’s very difficult to set up a network-connected computer system that doesn’t have at least some vulnerabilities…
Heads up.
My city just had confirmed ballot theft directly out of a mail van. On video. I receive my ballot by mail, but I’ll be turning it in in person at my nearest ballot drop off point.
Theft is absolutely on the fascist bingo card.
And it’s great. No lines, no waiting. Get your voting guide a week before, get your ballot, drink some coffee while you peruse the issues and candidates, look stuff up if you’re not sure about things, drop the ballot off at the library after work.
You hear “stay in line after polls close!” Or about folks waiting 4+ hours, or it being illegal to hand out water/food to people in line and it reads like madness.
Vote by mail is so damned civilized in comparison
