By mail you mean absentee ballot and not mail in ballot. The two are very different.
“By mail you mean absentee ballot”
Nope. I mean mail in ballot, because that is how I have received them for the greater part of 20 years — my work location is different than my state of legal residence so I have a ballot mailed to wherever I am working and vote there, mailing the ballot back to my residence.
Its pretty straightforward and simple, and making out as some exotic scam is just about the stupidest campaign decision I have seen in my life.
But then again, that is a record that is rapidly eclipising itself.