I always wondered about that line “completing ballot with the assistance of another” on MI absentee ballots.
I picture a young leftist saying “Grandma, don’t bother looking any more for your reading glasses, I’ll fill that ballot out for you.”
Non-absentee ones could have mentally challenged adults or physically disabled voters assisted. How closely is that monitored?
Your idea of cash paid for voters’ ballots sounds really probable. Much worse than the phony “reviews” on Amazon and elsewhere.
Assistance is not monitored at all. I have heard from friends that ballots arrive at assisted living facilities and one of the caretakers take them and fills the all out. Depending on the population, that gives one person a lot of votes either way.