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I think voting should be on election day FULL STOP. I don’t even think there should be absentee voting except for the military and with the military it doesn’t matter much because military votes are contested and thrown out if they would make a difference in the outcome. Along with that votes should be paper ballots deposited in a box. There will still be vote fraud but it is much more labor intensive that way and has to be done polling station by polling station whereas electronic voting machines can be manipulated in groups and remotely or by one techie with access.

I trained and worked at the polls in November. Never did it before. OH has a system now with backup paper ballots where the numbers have to tally by a counter before they're reported, with witnesses from both parties observing the process., before they're reported. If it doesn't tally, the paper ballots have to be hand counted. There are so many layers of complexity and checks that I can't see how anyone could manipulate the votes on voting day.

But then there's early walk-in voting at country election HQ and mail-in early absentee voting (has to be postmarked before voting day). All that effort to keep the voting stations honest, and these two glaring gaps!

I'm glad I had the experience. The poll workers take their jobs very seriously. The training was good. What I found most astonishing is that I did walk-in early voting at county headquarters. It was all very professional, very well done, everything possible happened to make voters feel secure and confident taking public transportation to vote. What was kind of funny was I had to show more ID to get my senior discounted rate to ride the bus than I did to vote!

This was in Cuyahoga County. One can't assume anything in Cuyahoga County is typical.