Of all the ways to vote..in person or mail in ballots

I’m fine with early voting. Mail in ballots is dumb unless you are doing absentee.

A European friend of mine wrote the following to me:

Every single voting issue the Republicans complain about would be illegal in every single EU country, starting with voter ID.

In the EU, IDs are not handed out by the DMV, by simply showing your gas bill. They are serious, state-issued and checked IDs, comparable to passports.

For security reasons, not a single EU country allows voting machines. EU states also don't send out mail-in ballots. Those have to be requested under very strict security and verification guidelines. Mail-in voting is usually only possible in very limited circumstances.

Vote harvesting doesn't exist. I'm also not aware of places where ballot boxes lying around days or weeks.

If a small, poor, struggling democracy were to hold elections under US conditions, there would be a huge outrey from the West.

Western election observers would seriously question the integrity of the vote etc.

There is not a single EU country where you would have to wait for days let alone notentiall weeks to find out who won.

When you vote by mail, drop box or ballot harvester, you didn't actually vote.

You gave someone else the opportunity to vote twice.
Once by handing them the power to cancel your vote; and twice because they have their own vote to use.

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Mail-in votes should be illegal.

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100%

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As should early voting.

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disagree

it encourages better turnout and saves me time waiting in line on election day

election day should be a federal holiday imho

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As should early voting.

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Disagree. Early voting by machine is good. We are suppose to have three days of decent rain here starting today where I live. I went and voted this past Tues. on a sunny warm day and was in and out in 10 minutes.

I early voted absentee in Madison County, Mississippi. Had to go to the Clerk of Court's office, fill out an application and was then given a ballot to fill out. After completing the ballot, I had to have placement in the envelope witnessed and I had to sign the envelope to validate the seal. I then deposited my ballot in a locked ballot box which was under human supervision.

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I early voted absentee in Madison County, Mississippi. Had to go to the Clerk of Court's office, fill out an application and was then given a ballot to fill out. After completing the ballot, I had to have placement in the envelope witnessed and I had to sign the envelope to validate the seal. I then deposited my ballot in a locked ballot box which was under human supervision.

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I mean, I get that. And if you're comfortable enough with that then good.

I'm just saying I provide ID, get signature verification, fill out my ballot, scan it in and then get the print out showing my choices right there in the voting location. And I don't even trust that, even though I was literally the only person to ever even see my ballot completed.