Subj : Re: boring stuff...
To   : Nightfox
From : Arelor
Date : Sun May 15 2022 18:16:19

  Re: Re: boring stuff...
  By: Nightfox to ACMEBBS on Fri May 13 2022 09:01 am

 >   Re: Re: boring stuff...
 >   By: ACMEBBS to boraxman on Fri May 13 2022 01:44 am
 > 
 >  AC> Being in Oregon...the whole state has been voting by mail for around 20
 >  AC> years. Myself...not a Democrat or Republican...but a member of the
 > 
 > That's cool.  I'm also in Oregon. :)  I thought it was funny to hear people 
 > other states debating about allowing voting by mail, and people saying they
 > worry that voting by mail could make it easier to commit voting fraud.  In t
 > last 20 years, I haven't heard of Oregon running into a major case of voting
 > fraud (at least if there was, it seems nobody has said anything).
 > 
 > Nightfox

How solid mail voting is depends on how seriously the administration takes it.

The Spanish way is that you need to walk into office and declare that you
intend to vote by mail. They give you the envelops and ballots and register
your name. The envelop you use for mail voting is linked to your identity.

When the deadlines are formalized and declared, you may put your selected
ballot in the envelop and put it in the mail. The ballot, within the envelop,
will be forwarded to the corresponding Electoral Junta.

THe day of the election, the regular voting goes and people places their
ballots at their assigned tables in the assigned urns. BY the end of the day,
the mailman arrives and the mail ballots are dumped in the urns together with
the regular votes.

Votes are finally counted and a new asshole is raised to power.

The main advantage of this method is that it is very hard to incur in actual
identity fraud - for somebody to use your identity to cast a mangled vote, they
would have to be at the Electorate Junta and swap the envelopes or something.

It is still not half as safe as voting in person. Not that it matters much,
because per-table results are then submitted to a court house and the ballots
destroyed, so if somebody at a court house wanted to falsify the result of some
of the smaller tables, I am not sure there are enough protections in place for
preventing that.

Even if the elections were run cleanly, the one who wins is the one who spends
more on marketing, so the point is kind of moot XD

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