Even disregarding any of the nefarious things like fraudulent ballots, fake ballots, voting machine manipulation and the like, there is still the issue of NOT FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS. Sign and date, the signatures should match (if they check absentee ballot submissions against actual voter registration signatures AND mailing them directly to ensure there is a valid Postal Mark meeting the date demands required. It isn’t rocket science.
If someone can get on a web site and go through all the machinations to get a SNAP card or Section 8, WICs or whatever programs, it isn’t any more difficult to submit a legally admissible absentee ballot. These leftist bleats about ‘not fair,’ ‘not reasonable,’ ‘too difficult to get it in on time, etc.’ are all complete BS.
As much BS as the old ladies they dig up to whine about how they can’t get/afford a Government Picture ID, have no way to go get one, blah, blah, blah. They sure know how to call a medical transport service to go to the doctor when it suits them - or any of the other government largess available - they sure don’t have a problem in getting a ride to the polls if needed..
Your comments are indicative, but they apply to the ballot alone, and the substandard treatments you described apply to anyone who does not walk into the polling place and votes once per actual citizen that presents him/herself.
To me, anything else is unreasonable and unsecure to place any trust in. It's not "old ladies" who insist on the absentee (forget about "mail-in" that is only one excuse foe missing the polling place on the day it is opened), if they are voters, they have been quite accustomed to personal presence for many years.
I believe that the wak point is the younger people who care less abd have not formed the habit of being registered and appear to vote on the day the polls are open. The demand for absence at one's lack of commitment just comes from those who mainly want to subvert the election process, IMHO.
I still have the ballot forms that came in the mail. I did not want to use them or add to the excuses for them. I went and voted in person, as always all my life.
Except the times that I was appointed as the polling inspector, for which after the classes that we were instructed about that job, we had the privlege of filling out the "absentee ballot" directly after the classes and overseen by the Department staff. That was it, a rasonable provision for it, at the Department offices, and only then for the clerks and inspectors.