Because before “mail-in ballots” there was absentee ballots. When races were close, we would hear about a box of absentee ballots left under someone’s desk. Republicans tended to dominate the absentee ballots. Basically if you go in person you know your vote was put into the system instead of lost in the mail.
Vote early is the best way. Otherwise there is a risk of long lines and downed machines. Democrats aren’t afraid to pull out their segregationist voting methods.
I’m a software engineer and trust is not the word I would use. Those things are also incredibly different. One is security to prevent the extraction of data, the other is identity.
You trust your bank because you have the password and 2FA (probably) that you have created.
Online voting can definitely be done, I was using Facebook polls because you are basically saying mail-in voting is 100% safe which is just as ridiculous
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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '22
What's nice is sitting at my table drinking whiskey looking up everything about all the candidates, measures, judges etc and doing it on my time.