With absentee voting you must request a ballot to a specific address. With mail in voting you flood the country with ballot applications that anyone can return. There is a huge difference.
Yes, to not recognize and understand the difference is disingenuous at best.
And anybody can steal ballots from mailboxes as happened recently in NJ. People don't notice because they didn't know to expect them.
Yes. What is the big deal here? I have no issue with legitimate absentee ballot voting.
I despise and detest early voting and efforts to establish widespread main in voting.
I see those as two entirely different things.
You still have to request the ballot come to a specific address.
“With absentee voting you must request a ballot to a specific address.”
It’s not a problem at the voter’s end. The problem is that when you return the ballot, you must sign the envelope and indicate your address. When the ballot is received back at the Elections Office, it’s easy for the workers to check the voter rolls where your party affiliation is noted. Easy to trash the ones they’d rather not have counted. You have to totally and completely trust every worker in the GOVERNMENT Elections Office. Do you?
Also, often Absentee Ballots are set aside to be counted later and sometimes they’re never counted at all. This happens especially with military ballots. They’ll count the Absentees is the election is so close that those ballots might make a difference.
These may not be issues any more, but when I ran elections in a large city, that was the deal.
I think they’re a problem.