Mail-In Ballots Need To Go

RealClear Politics ^ | 22 Aug, 2025 | John R. Lott Jr.

[MtnClimber]

"I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS,” President Trump declared Monday in a Truth Social post. Later that day, he promised an executive order “to end mail-in ballots because they are corrupt. You know we are the only country in the world, I believe, I may be wrong, just about, the only country in the world that uses them because of what happened, massive fraud all over the place.”

Trump has remained consistent; even before the 2020 election, he warned: “There is a lot of dishonesty going on with mail-in voting.”

Trump doesn’t need to hedge about voting rules abroad. Poland was the one other country that considered conducting its 2020 presidential election by mail during the pandemic, but even it abandoned the attempt. Countries don’t use the kind of mass mail-in voting now used in eight states – where states automatically send ballots to all registered voters, who then mail them back. That system differs from absentee ballots, which require a request and traditionally demanded a reason, such as being out of town on Election Day.

The United States stands out not only for mail-in ballots but also for its unusually broad use of absentee ballots. Of the 47 European countries, 35 – including France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden – ban absentee voting for citizens living inside the country. Ten others – including England, Ireland, Denmark, Portugal, and Spain – allow it only if voters pick up their ballots in person and present photo ID. Six of those restrict absentee ballots to the military or hospitalized voters, and they require verification from the military or hospital itself. The U.S., by contrast, lets anyone claim they will be out of town and receive a ballot by mail.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: ballots; cheating; cprc; elections; johnlott; mailin; rigging; tampering; votefraud

[Dan in Wichita]

You're conflating going back to "the horse and buggy days" with using common sense to reduce vote fraud.

The best way to guard against vote fraud is to use paper ballots cast in person only, no mail in voting (except for a small number of justified absentee ballots), voter ID, and a restricted time window to cast ballots (not having an "election season.")

[econjack]

That doesn’t preclude them from taking an hour off work to vote and moving them to the front of the line when they arrive at the polling spot. There could be a federal law requiring that.

[wardaddy]

Then why are you posting here as though it’s all irrelevant?

Conservatism is about truth tempered by higher power morality

But literally it’s also about pushback against destructive change

Both are pillars of conservative thought from Socrates musing forward

[deport]

But the earth keeps spinning and has been since time began.
At some point each of us will die, things will continue and
change will occur as progress evolves be it good or bad.
JMO, yours may vary as is your right.

[wardaddy]

I agree in part

I tell my lib friends

About four of them

Despite your broadcasting I’m not engaging

It’s pointless and we’ll be dead soon enough and our kids can fight it out

I cede that

[deport]

Not meaning to be abvesorial or against your right to think and
make choices/decisions based upon what you see, read and have
some interest in.

If you want to do a little research as to what the history of
humanitly might be then take a few moment to glance at what a
little history/research/etc/etc/etc may be of some interest to
you.  I'm by far not that knowledgeable but there are things out
there that have info that may well be interest to you or give a
thought or two to what really is history of the human race and
how did this world/earth/etc come into being.  A few short minutes 
may give you something that you may be interested in.

An Evolutionary Timeline of Homo Sapiens>