How can you tear up a secret ballot? This would be required to change your vote, otherwise a person could vote twice for the same person.
If they are nail in ballots, they are not opened untill election day. I suppose they can be destroyed and replaced. Still sounds a little sketchy.
In WI, early voting is handled like an absentee vote. The voter themself seals the ballot inside a special envelope, with the voter’s name and address, and the envelope must be signed in front of a witness. Then, on election day itself, those envelopes are opened and put through the machine that scans them, in the same polling place that the voter would have used if they had voted in person.
If a voter can get to their polling BEFORE their envelope is opened and scanned, then they can change it.
Once the envelope is opened and the ballot scanned, their name is marked as having voted, and they cannot change it.
Someone recently told me that Wisconsin and Minnesota allow early voters to change their mind before or by election day. Even though they swore it was true, I’m still wondering if it is. I guess I will have to google it as I forgot about it until I read this.
I read yesterday that they hold the absentee ballots in an envelope with that person’s ID, so I suppose that envelope could be pulled, destroyed, and a new ballot issued. I don’t like the idea, one way or the other, but especially that my absentee ballot is ID’d so that whomever counts them knows who I voted for.