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<><> Mail-in voting eliminates the sanctity of the voted ballot.

<><> There are no mixtures of Republican and Democrat pollworkers watching as the voter drops the ballot in the blue collection box,
<><> there are no Republican and Democrat pollworkers meeting it upon delivery.

<><> No witnesses are in place to see who drops it in the mail;

<><> the ballot travels through multiple hands as it moves across the country or the world, and

<><> it is finally opened by local bureaucrats, in the cities, members of one party’s machine.
<><> When “push” mail-in voting is used, there is minimal vetting,
<><> no way to guard against multiple voting or noncitizen voting.

<><>Ballots are mailed out to every voter
<><>voters either vote it or not,
<><> there’s no procedure for disposing unvoted ballots to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands.

<><> possibly one partisan in an apartment building won’t collect the ballots upon delivery,
<><> the partisan could cast the ballots himself, without the voters’ permission
<><> It happens; the only unknown is how often.

Even when legitimate mail-in voting is used as a last resort - as for military families stationed abroad, there are multiple reasons why their votes often don’t count. Many states simply don’t finalize their ballots with enough time built in, they arrive too late, the servicemen or other expats don’t mail them back in time, they’re delayed in the mail, they arrive after the election, sometimes much too late. It’s often not the post office’s fault; the time window simply doesn’t allow for the process. Mail service to and from our embassies in England or Nigeria, or from our military bases in Iraq or Afghanistan, simply isn’t as quick as it is at home, and we cannot expect it to be. Even without fraud, even without the short time window, one thing has to be admitted about the mail: it is not perfect.