For voters in remote rural counties, early and mail-in voting is viable as it protects voters from having to drive miles to cast a ballot. However, from those that live in more densely populated areas, there is no need for early and mail in voting.
Hey, rural votes are you know ... the ones they want to block.
Driving miles to cast a vote is a small price to pay for reducing vote fraud.
My drive is 20 minutes and then stand in line for whatever time it takes.
Voting should require some effort.
OK, convenience is nice. I was raised in a rural southern county with almost all gravel roads. I remember some old folks back then (early 1950s, before television, internet and even before a lot of people, including our farm, had phones) who walked 5+ miles to the county seat to vote. Probably an hour’s walk each way if they didn’t get a ride. And who would hang around the courthouse until midnight or so, to see the final tally of paper ballots.
A lot of these folks had no running water and no electricity, so I guess you could say they had nothing better to do. The ballots were counted in the courtroom, with election officials up where the lawyers usually sat, and the public would sit behind the bar in the spectator gallery and watch the officials work.
And for summer primaries? No air conditioning and bare light bulbs hanging down, swarming with bugs. As kids we would hang around where the “excitement” was until we realized it wasn’t exciting, then we would go outside where it was cooler.
I seriously doubt that many of those folks would have trusted giving a mail-in ballot to a rural letter carrier, to maybe get delivered and counted. But today, voting is too inconvenient if folks have to drive 40-50 miles in an air conditioned car, or even 5 miles, so we have mail-in ballots.
I’d suggest they we just don’t take voting seriously today. And with all the indications of cheating going on, who could, right?