“I have only voted by mail. It allows me to research down ballot candidates”
You can research all candidates and still vote in person. We do. Having been Elections Supervisor for a few years, it was obvious that absentee voting made ballots vulnerable for fraud. Ditto for early voting. (We didn’t have the loosey-goosey strictly mail-in). In-person voting was the safest.
“In-person voting was the safest”
Mostly for democrats that do not have to work monday thru friday.
In-Person voting can (in red counties) only clogs up the parking lots creates lines and discourages some who would have voted red to turn around, go home and hope for the best.