Trump does not like Absentee voting or early voting because people may have cast their votes before his planned, October surprise drop.
& foreign actors can't mess with it either because vote by mail = paper trail.
I'm not certain foreign actors can't mess with it in an early process....we know as fact, the Russians stole or broke in to state voter registration systems in 2016... we do not know what they did with the information they gathered.
So we all still need to keep our eyes wide open for fraud, by them.
Yep, and we need to be aware that the chinese and russians (who badly want Joe to win) are capable of producing millions of fake ballots and mailing them in. We can all safely go to the polls on election day, that is the only way to know that the election is not rigged, the dems and russians tried and failed to do it in 2016 and they will try again this november.
The Russians are the ones who broke in to voter registration rolls, in 2016. NOT the Chinese....at least not yet.
Printing ballots just isn't a concern, because most states, 41 of them, are not mass mailing to registered voters and most importantly signatures have to match for the vote to count....if the ballot sig does not match, then they are called, and given a chance to prove, the citizen is the voter who signed the envelope, by providing I'D at the election office. If they don't do this, the absentee ballot is not counted.
Absentee ballots are checked for signatures, checked to see if they are registered, checked to see if they have died, since they mailed them out....etc.
They are not accepted, willy nilly.
I was in an accident one year which caused nerve damage in my hands and arm.
The next time I voted after that accident I got a letter from the county auditor office saying there was a problem with my ballot. It wasn't counted. If I wanted it counted I had to go to the auditor's office with ID. So I did.
The signature didn't match the one on file. Which I knew it wouldn't because of the nerve damage in my hands. I showed them ID. They gave me a new card to sign. My vote was counted.
There are bar codes on the ballots along with numbers. They don't send ballots out to just anyone. You have to be a registered voter to get one.
Mail in voting is very safe, secure and leaves a paper trail to count.
Most importantly, republicans can't close a polling place, can't move one to a place people can't get to our completely out of town. They can't deny a person the right to vote or challenge it. They can't put one or two machines in a voting place. They can't put broken or malfunctioning machines in a voting place. No one has to stand in a long line all day.
A lot of the cheating the republicans do can't be done with mail in voting.
That is why trump and republicans don't want mail in voting.