[lightman]

About time.

Work schedules often required my family to vote absentee even before the "no excuse" law took effect, and, frankly, paying your own postage (sometimes at 2oz rate) was a vestige of a poll tax.

[Theodore R.]

TX requires the voter to pay the postage for absentee or early voting.

[P.O.E.]

Unless of course you live in Democrat areas in which case take your time sending in your ballots.

Like they did with the recent primary by the Governor’s fiat.

[frogjerk]

So we won’t know who won PA for weeks then...What a clusterf*ck in the making!

[Alas Babylon!]

“Our goal is to make voting as accessible, safe, and easy for eligible voters as possible,” said Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar in a news release.

What about security?

How will you know, Kathy, that the voter's ballot, returned with free postage, is even from that voter?

[dubyagee]

Could someone tell me how this is even legal? There’s a frickin’ law in place for everything. Are there no laws that prevent stealing an election in this manner!!!!

[Blood of Tyrants]

Just making it cheap for fake voters.

[PROCON]

Just don't lick-seal them.

[wiseprince]

People are going to still their votes. It’s almost a certainty. Very easy to do now

[Svartalfiar]

I don't see why we have so much mail-in as it is.

Voting should be limited to a single 48-72 hour period, say Thurs 0600 through Sat 2400. That gives everyone night, day, weekend, weekday all available to make it to the polls.

Voter ID is required and verified with the registered voter rolls, and your finger goes in the deep purple ink when you vote. Those two will stop almost any in-person vote fraud.

Speaking of voter rolls, all registered voters are dumped JAN01 after a Presidential election. You can reregister at any time, although registrations are closed for 3-4 weeks before the election. This prevents most dead votes, a lot of double votes, etc.

The only absentee votes allowed are military / gov't officials with approved orders to be out of town on those days, and maybe those with legitimate medical reasons to not go vote. Requires documentation, and 10-20% of these are audited every voting cycle.

Voting is the location where your residence is. None of this bullcrap of letting a student town have students control the politics, when hardly any of them actually live there.
Local places, however, can allow non-resident voting for local stuff only (vacation home owners do have a property interest in a place they may not domicile, stuff like that), but this is subject to very strict scrutiny.

Ballots are only in the national language (English). There are extremely few cases of people who can vote who legitimately can't speak English: naturalized citizen, over I think 65 doesn't require English proficiency, but everyone else eligible to vote should speak English.

[upchuck]

I read about someplace else, sorry, don’t remember where, where the state provided postage pd envelopes for ballot return. Problems arose because the PO does not date stamp postage pd mail. Thus could not determine when the ballot was mailed.

[Revel]

This is the cats Meow for vote fraud. And it will be weeks before they count all the votes. A high percentage of them fraudulent. It is amazing to see so many people here are so gullible that I don’t think that they can be helped. This is very very bad.

[trebb]

Yeah - 45 cents is way to much to pay to vote....and sending 10s of 1000s prepaid envelopes that will end up in wastebaskets is a great way to treat the taxpayers of PA.
Those who drive to polling stations will pay more in gas - why not reimburse them too?