Mail-in and/or absentee voting 101

Im just glad you Republicans didn't fight it much.

It's crazy to think that my grandmother, who passed in March, shouldn't be able to vote. The laws still affect her succession, so she definitely should get to decide.

I have to be a registered voter.

Easy to do. Extremely easy to do.

I go to the voting poll.

I show my drivers license.

I sign the book.


That is how it should be done.

I understand absentee and early voting.

But even that is getting out of control.

Three days before the election or you don’t get to vote.


Mail in voting is all about stealing elections. It’s that simple and everybody knows it

I’ll tell you a secret. Mail-in voting and absentee are the same.

Mail in voting is for people who aren't invested in the election or don't care. If you truly believe in your candidate then you will get out to make a difference.

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How does it work for absentee and or mail in?

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Oregon voter here - first state in the country to go to all mail-in voting. Paper ballot is sent to your address a few weeks before election day. You fill it out and place it in an inner security envelope, and then place that in another envelope with your name and voter information preprinted on it.

They tell you the date that you can drop it in a mailbox by (postage is now prepaid, it didn't used to be), or, if you prefer to do it closer to election day or don't trust the post office, there are special drop boxes (pretty much the same as those post office boxes, but designated just for elections) located all over the place. You just drive up and drop it in.

When the system was put in place, it was spearheaded mainly by Republicans who lived in the eastern part of the state (Eastern Oregon is VERY remote and getting to a polling place can be difficult), and opposed by the Democrats. Eventually it was pushed through via a ballot measure. In years like 2020 with both a primary and general election, the lack of polling places saves taxpayers something like 2 or 3 million dollars.

Fraud isn't really an issue:

1) Outer envelopes and the anonymous security envelopes are opened by different people.
2) Poll watchers from each party oversee the process. 3) You sign the outer envelope, and they check the signature against your voter registration. If it does not match, you are contacted by the election official and have at least 14 days to come verify it.
4) Ballots and outer envelopes have unique barcodes on them so if they're duplicated, the system will flag it either as invalid or as a duplicate.
5) You can track online when your ballot is mailed to you and when it is received by election officials after you return it.

Research from Brookings found that from 2000-2019, there were 15 documented cases of voter fraud out of 15.5 million ballots cast. The system works, and is overwhelmingly supported by both parties here.

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It's crazy to think that my grandmother, who passed in March, shouldn't be able to vote. The laws still affect her succession, so she definitely should get to decide.

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Your grandma will be voting for Dems so you can rest easy son.

Fraud may not even be the most profound issue. Oregon may be efficient at it after however long they've been doing it, but we're talking about many states giving it their first shot at that greatly expanded level, and for a Presidential election no less. Lack of efficiency and preparedness will likely dictate that untold amounts of ballots may never make it through the necessary steps of the process in order to counted. Which actually could even get into civil rights violations if that occurred where it was known or should have been known that it would likely occur.

I live in Florida. More than 75% of the home owners are barely here. They, like Trump, vote mostly by mail. Our August 18th primary was well over 63% mail in ballots. Trump doesn’t use absentee ballot, he uses the mail in process.