Trunz & the alt-right keep saying that voting by mail makes cheating easy. That is false. In fact, it makes cheating incredibly difficult.
Phil Keisling, the former Oregon secretary of state who introduced that state’s mail-in voting system, explains why:
"
Mail-based voting systems today are far less risky than most polling place elections, precisely because they distribute ballots (and electoral risk) in such a decentralized way. To have any reasonable chance of success, an organized effort to defraud a mail-based system and its safeguards must involve hundreds (if not thousands) of separate acts, all of them individual felonies, that must both occur and go undetected to have any chance of success.
Contrast that to the risks inherent in polling place elections that increasingly rely on direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting systems and proprietary software systems that both record and tally votes. A single successful software hack potentially could affect thousands of votes. It’s the difference between “retail” fraud and “wholesale” fraud.
"
Vote-by-mail makes wholesale fraud all but impossible. Voters hand mark paper ballots and receive a stub with a code that allows them to track their ballot as it proceeds through the system and ensure that it is properly tallied. It is a trackable paper system — just what election security experts recommend. (As long as it is done well, of course; design matters.)
We all know that the only real election fraud is committed by republicans (this is just a FACT!):
Two Republicans charged in Ohio election fraud scheme — but they won anyway
https://www.salon.com/2019/11/06/two-republicans-charged-in-ohio-election-fraud-scheme-but-they-won-anyway/
North Carolina Republican operative charged in election fraud scheme
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-north-carolina/north-carolina-republican-operative-charged-in-election-fraud-scheme-idUSKCN1QG2FS
GOP Finally Has Documented Case of Election Fraud — Committed by Republicans
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/election-fraud-is-real-and-it-involves-a-republican.html
Florida Woman Changed Voters’ Party Affiliations, Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/Cheryl-hall-voter-registration-fraud.html
Trunz & the alt-right keep saying that voting by mail makes cheating easy. That is false. In fact, it makes cheating incredibly difficult.
Phil Keisling, the former Oregon secretary of state who introduced that state’s mail-in voting system, explains why:
"
Mail-based voting systems today are far less risky than most polling place elections, precisely because they distribute ballots (and electoral risk) in such a decentralized way. To have any reasonable chance of success, an organized effort to defraud a mail-based system and its safeguards must involve hundreds (if not thousands) of separate acts, all of them individual felonies, that must both occur and go undetected to have any chance of success.
Contrast that to the risks inherent in polling place elections that increasingly rely on direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting systems and proprietary software systems that both record and tally votes. A single successful software hack potentially could affect thousands of votes. It’s the difference between “retail” fraud and “wholesale” fraud.
"
Vote-by-mail makes wholesale fraud all but impossible. Voters hand mark paper ballots and receive a stub with a code that allows them to track their ballot as it proceeds through the system and ensure that it is properly tallied. It is a trackable paper system — just what election security experts recommend. (As long as it is done well, of course; design matters.)
We all know that the only real election fraud is committed by republicans (this is just a FACT!):
Two Republicans charged in Ohio election fraud scheme — but they won anyway
https://www.salon.com/2019/11/06/two-republicans-charged-in-ohio-election-fraud-scheme-but-they-won-anyway/
North Carolina Republican operative charged in election fraud scheme
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-north-carolina/north-carolina-republican-operative-charged-in-election-fraud-scheme-idUSKCN1QG2FS
GOP Finally Has Documented Case of Election Fraud — Committed by Republicans
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/election-fraud-is-real-and-it-involves-a-republican.html
Florida Woman Changed Voters’ Party Affiliations, Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/Cheryl-hall-voter-registration-fraud.html
Trunz & the alt-right keep saying that voting by mail makes cheating easy. That is false. In fact, it makes cheating incredibly difficult.
Phil Keisling, the former Oregon secretary of state who introduced that state’s mail-in voting system, explains why:
"
Mail-based voting systems today are far less risky than most polling place elections, precisely because they distribute ballots (and electoral risk) in such a decentralized way. To have any reasonable chance of success, an organized effort to defraud a mail-based system and its safeguards must involve hundreds (if not thousands) of separate acts, all of them individual felonies, that must both occur and go undetected to have any chance of success.
Contrast that to the risks inherent in polling place elections that increasingly rely on direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting systems and proprietary software systems that both record and tally votes. A single successful software hack potentially could affect thousands of votes. It’s the difference between “retail” fraud and “wholesale” fraud.
"
Vote-by-mail makes wholesale fraud all but impossible. Voters hand mark paper ballots and receive a stub with a code that allows them to track their ballot as it proceeds through the system and ensure that it is properly tallied. It is a trackable paper system — just what election security experts recommend. (As long as it is done well, of course; design matters.)
We all know that the only real election fraud is committed by republicans (this is just a FACT!):
Two Republicans charged in Ohio election fraud scheme — but they won anyway
https://www.salon.com/2019/11/06/two-republicans-charged-in-ohio-election-fraud-scheme-but-they-won-anyway/
North Carolina Republican operative charged in election fraud scheme
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-north-carolina/north-carolina-republican-operative-charged-in-election-fraud-scheme-idUSKCN1QG2FS
GOP Finally Has Documented Case of Election Fraud — Committed by Republicans
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/election-fraud-is-real-and-it-involves-a-republican.html
Florida Woman Changed Voters’ Party Affiliations, Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/Cheryl-hall-voter-registration-fraud.html
Trunz & the alt-right keep saying that voting by mail makes cheating easy. That is false. In fact, it makes cheating incredibly difficult.
Phil Keisling, the former Oregon secretary of state who introduced that state’s mail-in voting system, explains why:
"
Mail-based voting systems today are far less risky than most polling place elections, precisely because they distribute ballots (and electoral risk) in such a decentralized way. To have any reasonable chance of success, an organized effort to defraud a mail-based system and its safeguards must involve hundreds (if not thousands) of separate acts, all of them individual felonies, that must both occur and go undetected to have any chance of success.
Contrast that to the risks inherent in polling place elections that increasingly rely on direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting systems and proprietary software systems that both record and tally votes. A single successful software hack potentially could affect thousands of votes. It’s the difference between “retail” fraud and “wholesale” fraud.
"
Vote-by-mail makes wholesale fraud all but impossible. Voters hand mark paper ballots and receive a stub with a code that allows them to track their ballot as it proceeds through the system and ensure that it is properly tallied. It is a trackable paper system — just what election security experts recommend. (As long as it is done well, of course; design matters.)
We all know that the only real election fraud is committed by republicans (this is just a FACT!):
Two Republicans charged in Ohio election fraud scheme — but they won anyway
https://www.salon.com/2019/11/06/two-republicans-charged-in-ohio-election-fraud-scheme-but-they-won-anyway/
North Carolina Republican operative charged in election fraud scheme
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-north-carolina/north-carolina-republican-operative-charged-in-election-fraud-scheme-idUSKCN1QG2FS
GOP Finally Has Documented Case of Election Fraud — Committed by Republicans
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/election-fraud-is-real-and-it-involves-a-republican.html
Florida Woman Changed Voters’ Party Affiliations, Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/Cheryl-hall-voter-registration-fraud.html
Trunz & the alt-right keep saying that voting by mail makes cheating easy. That is false. In fact, it makes cheating incredibly difficult.
Phil Keisling, the former Oregon secretary of state who introduced that state’s mail-in voting system, explains why:
"
Mail-based voting systems today are far less risky than most polling place elections, precisely because they distribute ballots (and electoral risk) in such a decentralized way. To have any reasonable chance of success, an organized effort to defraud a mail-based system and its safeguards must involve hundreds (if not thousands) of separate acts, all of them individual felonies, that must both occur and go undetected to have any chance of success.
Contrast that to the risks inherent in polling place elections that increasingly rely on direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting systems and proprietary software systems that both record and tally votes. A single successful software hack potentially could affect thousands of votes. It’s the difference between “retail” fraud and “wholesale” fraud.
"
Vote-by-mail makes wholesale fraud all but impossible. Voters hand mark paper ballots and receive a stub with a code that allows them to track their ballot as it proceeds through the system and ensure that it is properly tallied. It is a trackable paper system — just what election security experts recommend. (As long as it is done well, of course; design matters.)
We all know that the only real election fraud is committed by republicans (this is just a FACT!):
Two Republicans charged in Ohio election fraud scheme — but they won anyway
https://www.salon.com/2019/11/06/two-republicans-charged-in-ohio-election-fraud-scheme-but-they-won-anyway/
North Carolina Republican operative charged in election fraud scheme
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-north-carolina/north-carolina-republican-operative-charged-in-election-fraud-scheme-idUSKCN1QG2FS
GOP Finally Has Documented Case of Election Fraud — Committed by Republicans
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/election-fraud-is-real-and-it-involves-a-republican.html
Florida Woman Changed Voters’ Party Affiliations, Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/Cheryl-hall-voter-registration-fraud.html
Trunz & the alt-right keep saying that voting by mail makes cheating easy. That is false. In fact, it makes cheating incredibly difficult.
Phil Keisling, the former Oregon secretary of state who introduced that state’s mail-in voting system, explains why:
"
Mail-based voting systems today are far less risky than most polling place elections, precisely because they distribute ballots (and electoral risk) in such a decentralized way. To have any reasonable chance of success, an organized effort to defraud a mail-based system and its safeguards must involve hundreds (if not thousands) of separate acts, all of them individual felonies, that must both occur and go undetected to have any chance of success.
Contrast that to the risks inherent in polling place elections that increasingly rely on direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting systems and proprietary software systems that both record and tally votes. A single successful software hack potentially could affect thousands of votes. It’s the difference between “retail” fraud and “wholesale” fraud.
"
Vote-by-mail makes wholesale fraud all but impossible. Voters hand mark paper ballots and receive a stub with a code that allows them to track their ballot as it proceeds through the system and ensure that it is properly tallied. It is a trackable paper system — just what election security experts recommend. (As long as it is done well, of course; design matters.)
We all know that the only real election fraud is committed by republicans (this is just a FACT!):
Two Republicans charged in Ohio election fraud scheme — but they won anyway
https://www.salon.com/2019/11/06/two-republicans-charged-in-ohio-election-fraud-scheme-but-they-won-anyway/
North Carolina Republican operative charged in election fraud scheme
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-north-carolina/north-carolina-republican-operative-charged-in-election-fraud-scheme-idUSKCN1QG2FS
GOP Finally Has Documented Case of Election Fraud — Committed by Republicans
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/election-fraud-is-real-and-it-involves-a-republican.html
Florida Woman Changed Voters’ Party Affiliations, Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/Cheryl-hall-voter-registration-fraud.html
Trunz & the alt-right keep saying that voting by mail makes cheating easy. That is false. In fact, it makes cheating incredibly difficult.
Phil Keisling, the former Oregon secretary of state who introduced that state’s mail-in voting system, explains why:
"
Mail-based voting systems today are far less risky than most polling place elections, precisely because they distribute ballots (and electoral risk) in such a decentralized way. To have any reasonable chance of success, an organized effort to defraud a mail-based system and its safeguards must involve hundreds (if not thousands) of separate acts, all of them individual felonies, that must both occur and go undetected to have any chance of success.
Contrast that to the risks inherent in polling place elections that increasingly rely on direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting systems and proprietary software systems that both record and tally votes. A single successful software hack potentially could affect thousands of votes. It’s the difference between “retail” fraud and “wholesale” fraud.
"
Vote-by-mail makes wholesale fraud all but impossible. Voters hand mark paper ballots and receive a stub with a code that allows them to track their ballot as it proceeds through the system and ensure that it is properly tallied. It is a trackable paper system — just what election security experts recommend. (As long as it is done well, of course; design matters.)
We all know that the only real election fraud is committed by republicans (this is just a FACT!):
Two Republicans charged in Ohio election fraud scheme — but they won anyway
https://www.salon.com/2019/11/06/two-republicans-charged-in-ohio-election-fraud-scheme-but-they-won-anyway/
North Carolina Republican operative charged in election fraud scheme
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-north-carolina/north-carolina-republican-operative-charged-in-election-fraud-scheme-idUSKCN1QG2FS
GOP Finally Has Documented Case of Election Fraud — Committed by Republicans
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/election-fraud-is-real-and-it-involves-a-republican.html
Florida Woman Changed Voters’ Party Affiliations, Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/Cheryl-hall-voter-registration-fraud.html
Trunz & the alt-right keep saying that voting by mail makes cheating easy. That is false. In fact, it makes cheating incredibly difficult.
Phil Keisling, the former Oregon secretary of state who introduced that state’s mail-in voting system, explains why:
"
Mail-based voting systems today are far less risky than most polling place elections, precisely because they distribute ballots (and electoral risk) in such a decentralized way. To have any reasonable chance of success, an organized effort to defraud a mail-based system and its safeguards must involve hundreds (if not thousands) of separate acts, all of them individual felonies, that must both occur and go undetected to have any chance of success.
Contrast that to the risks inherent in polling place elections that increasingly rely on direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting systems and proprietary software systems that both record and tally votes. A single successful software hack potentially could affect thousands of votes. It’s the difference between “retail” fraud and “wholesale” fraud.
"
Vote-by-mail makes wholesale fraud all but impossible. Voters hand mark paper ballots and receive a stub with a code that allows them to track their ballot as it proceeds through the system and ensure that it is properly tallied. It is a trackable paper system — just what election security experts recommend. (As long as it is done well, of course; design matters.)
We all know that the only real election fraud is committed by republicans (this is just a FACT!):
Two Republicans charged in Ohio election fraud scheme — but they won anyway
https://www.salon.com/2019/11/06/two-republicans-charged-in-ohio-election-fraud-scheme-but-they-won-anyway/
North Carolina Republican operative charged in election fraud scheme
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-north-carolina/north-carolina-republican-operative-charged-in-election-fraud-scheme-idUSKCN1QG2FS
GOP Finally Has Documented Case of Election Fraud — Committed by Republicans
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/election-fraud-is-real-and-it-involves-a-republican.html
Florida Woman Changed Voters’ Party Affiliations, Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/Cheryl-hall-voter-registration-fraud.html
Trunz & the alt-right keep saying that voting by mail makes cheating easy. That is false. In fact, it makes cheating incredibly difficult.
Phil Keisling, the former Oregon secretary of state who introduced that state’s mail-in voting system, explains why:
"
Mail-based voting systems today are far less risky than most polling place elections, precisely because they distribute ballots (and electoral risk) in such a decentralized way. To have any reasonable chance of success, an organized effort to defraud a mail-based system and its safeguards must involve hundreds (if not thousands) of separate acts, all of them individual felonies, that must both occur and go undetected to have any chance of success.
Contrast that to the risks inherent in polling place elections that increasingly rely on direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting systems and proprietary software systems that both record and tally votes. A single successful software hack potentially could affect thousands of votes. It’s the difference between “retail” fraud and “wholesale” fraud.
"
Vote-by-mail makes wholesale fraud all but impossible. Voters hand mark paper ballots and receive a stub with a code that allows them to track their ballot as it proceeds through the system and ensure that it is properly tallied. It is a trackable paper system — just what election security experts recommend. (As long as it is done well, of course; design matters.)
We all know that the only real election fraud is committed by republicans (this is just a FACT!):
Two Republicans charged in Ohio election fraud scheme — but they won anyway
https://www.salon.com/2019/11/06/two-republicans-charged-in-ohio-election-fraud-scheme-but-they-won-anyway/
North Carolina Republican operative charged in election fraud scheme
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-north-carolina/north-carolina-republican-operative-charged-in-election-fraud-scheme-idUSKCN1QG2FS
GOP Finally Has Documented Case of Election Fraud — Committed by Republicans
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/election-fraud-is-real-and-it-involves-a-republican.html
Florida Woman Changed Voters’ Party Affiliations, Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/Cheryl-hall-voter-registration-fraud.html
Trunz & the alt-right keep saying that voting by mail makes cheating easy. That is false. In fact, it makes cheating incredibly difficult.
Phil Keisling, the former Oregon secretary of state who introduced that state’s mail-in voting system, explains why:
"
Mail-based voting systems today are far less risky than most polling place elections, precisely because they distribute ballots (and electoral risk) in such a decentralized way. To have any reasonable chance of success, an organized effort to defraud a mail-based system and its safeguards must involve hundreds (if not thousands) of separate acts, all of them individual felonies, that must both occur and go undetected to have any chance of success.
Contrast that to the risks inherent in polling place elections that increasingly rely on direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting systems and proprietary software systems that both record and tally votes. A single successful software hack potentially could affect thousands of votes. It’s the difference between “retail” fraud and “wholesale” fraud.
"
Vote-by-mail makes wholesale fraud all but impossible. Voters hand mark paper ballots and receive a stub with a code that allows them to track their ballot as it proceeds through the system and ensure that it is properly tallied. It is a trackable paper system — just what election security experts recommend. (As long as it is done well, of course; design matters.)
We all know that the only real election fraud is committed by republicans (this is just a FACT!):
Two Republicans charged in Ohio election fraud scheme — but they won anyway
https://www.salon.com/2019/11/06/two-republicans-charged-in-ohio-election-fraud-scheme-but-they-won-anyway/
North Carolina Republican operative charged in election fraud scheme
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-north-carolina/north-carolina-republican-operative-charged-in-election-fraud-scheme-idUSKCN1QG2FS
GOP Finally Has Documented Case of Election Fraud — Committed by Republicans
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/election-fraud-is-real-and-it-involves-a-republican.html
Florida Woman Changed Voters’ Party Affiliations, Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/Cheryl-hall-voter-registration-fraud.html
Trunz & the alt-right keep saying that voting by mail makes cheating easy. That is false. In fact, it makes cheating incredibly difficult.
Phil Keisling, the former Oregon secretary of state who introduced that state’s mail-in voting system, explains why:
"
Mail-based voting systems today are far less risky than most polling place elections, precisely because they distribute ballots (and electoral risk) in such a decentralized way. To have any reasonable chance of success, an organized effort to defraud a mail-based system and its safeguards must involve hundreds (if not thousands) of separate acts, all of them individual felonies, that must both occur and go undetected to have any chance of success.
Contrast that to the risks inherent in polling place elections that increasingly rely on direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting systems and proprietary software systems that both record and tally votes. A single successful software hack potentially could affect thousands of votes. It’s the difference between “retail” fraud and “wholesale” fraud.
"
Vote-by-mail makes wholesale fraud all but impossible. Voters hand mark paper ballots and receive a stub with a code that allows them to track their ballot as it proceeds through the system and ensure that it is properly tallied. It is a trackable paper system — just what election security experts recommend. (As long as it is done well, of course; design matters.)
We all know that the only real election fraud is committed by republicans (this is just a FACT!):
Two Republicans charged in Ohio election fraud scheme — but they won anyway
https://www.salon.com/2019/11/06/two-republicans-charged-in-ohio-election-fraud-scheme-but-they-won-anyway/
North Carolina Republican operative charged in election fraud scheme
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-north-carolina/north-carolina-republican-operative-charged-in-election-fraud-scheme-idUSKCN1QG2FS
GOP Finally Has Documented Case of Election Fraud — Committed by Republicans
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/election-fraud-is-real-and-it-involves-a-republican.html
Florida Woman Changed Voters’ Party Affiliations, Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/Cheryl-hall-voter-registration-fraud.html
Trunz & the alt-right keep saying that voting by mail makes cheating easy. That is false. In fact, it makes cheating incredibly difficult.
Phil Keisling, the former Oregon secretary of state who introduced that state’s mail-in voting system, explains why:
"
Mail-based voting systems today are far less risky than most polling place elections, precisely because they distribute ballots (and electoral risk) in such a decentralized way. To have any reasonable chance of success, an organized effort to defraud a mail-based system and its safeguards must involve hundreds (if not thousands) of separate acts, all of them individual felonies, that must both occur and go undetected to have any chance of success.
Contrast that to the risks inherent in polling place elections that increasingly rely on direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting systems and proprietary software systems that both record and tally votes. A single successful software hack potentially could affect thousands of votes. It’s the difference between “retail” fraud and “wholesale” fraud.
"
Vote-by-mail makes wholesale fraud all but impossible. Voters hand mark paper ballots and receive a stub with a code that allows them to track their ballot as it proceeds through the system and ensure that it is properly tallied. It is a trackable paper system — just what election security experts recommend. (As long as it is done well, of course; design matters.)
We all know that the only real election fraud is committed by republicans (this is just a FACT!):
Two Republicans charged in Ohio election fraud scheme — but they won anyway
https://www.salon.com/2019/11/06/two-republicans-charged-in-ohio-election-fraud-scheme-but-they-won-anyway/
North Carolina Republican operative charged in election fraud scheme
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-north-carolina/north-carolina-republican-operative-charged-in-election-fraud-scheme-idUSKCN1QG2FS
GOP Finally Has Documented Case of Election Fraud — Committed by Republicans
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/election-fraud-is-real-and-it-involves-a-republican.html
Florida Woman Changed Voters’ Party Affiliations, Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/Cheryl-hall-voter-registration-fraud.html
Trunz & the alt-right keep saying that voting by mail makes cheating easy. That is false. In fact, it makes cheating incredibly difficult.
Phil Keisling, the former Oregon secretary of state who introduced that state’s mail-in voting system, explains why:
"
Mail-based voting systems today are far less risky than most polling place elections, precisely because they distribute ballots (and electoral risk) in such a decentralized way. To have any reasonable chance of success, an organized effort to defraud a mail-based system and its safeguards must involve hundreds (if not thousands) of separate acts, all of them individual felonies, that must both occur and go undetected to have any chance of success.
Contrast that to the risks inherent in polling place elections that increasingly rely on direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting systems and proprietary software systems that both record and tally votes. A single successful software hack potentially could affect thousands of votes. It’s the difference between “retail” fraud and “wholesale” fraud.
"
Vote-by-mail makes wholesale fraud all but impossible. Voters hand mark paper ballots and receive a stub with a code that allows them to track their ballot as it proceeds through the system and ensure that it is properly tallied. It is a trackable paper system — just what election security experts recommend. (As long as it is done well, of course; design matters.)
We all know that the only real election fraud is committed by republicans (this is just a FACT!):
Two Republicans charged in Ohio election fraud scheme — but they won anyway
https://www.salon.com/2019/11/06/two-republicans-charged-in-ohio-election-fraud-scheme-but-they-won-anyway/
North Carolina Republican operative charged in election fraud scheme
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-north-carolina/north-carolina-republican-operative-charged-in-election-fraud-scheme-idUSKCN1QG2FS
GOP Finally Has Documented Case of Election Fraud — Committed by Republicans
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/election-fraud-is-real-and-it-involves-a-republican.html
Florida Woman Changed Voters’ Party Affiliations, Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/Cheryl-hall-voter-registration-fraud.html
Trunz & the alt-right keep saying that voting by mail makes cheating easy. That is false. In fact, it makes cheating incredibly difficult.
Phil Keisling, the former Oregon secretary of state who introduced that state’s mail-in voting system, explains why:
"
Mail-based voting systems today are far less risky than most polling place elections, precisely because they distribute ballots (and electoral risk) in such a decentralized way. To have any reasonable chance of success, an organized effort to defraud a mail-based system and its safeguards must involve hundreds (if not thousands) of separate acts, all of them individual felonies, that must both occur and go undetected to have any chance of success.
Contrast that to the risks inherent in polling place elections that increasingly rely on direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting systems and proprietary software systems that both record and tally votes. A single successful software hack potentially could affect thousands of votes. It’s the difference between “retail” fraud and “wholesale” fraud.
"
Vote-by-mail makes wholesale fraud all but impossible. Voters hand mark paper ballots and receive a stub with a code that allows them to track their ballot as it proceeds through the system and ensure that it is properly tallied. It is a trackable paper system — just what election security experts recommend. (As long as it is done well, of course; design matters.)
We all know that the only real election fraud is committed by republicans (this is just a FACT!):
Two Republicans charged in Ohio election fraud scheme — but they won anyway
https://www.salon.com/2019/11/06/two-republicans-charged-in-ohio-election-fraud-scheme-but-they-won-anyway/
North Carolina Republican operative charged in election fraud scheme
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-north-carolina/north-carolina-republican-operative-charged-in-election-fraud-scheme-idUSKCN1QG2FS
GOP Finally Has Documented Case of Election Fraud — Committed by Republicans
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/election-fraud-is-real-and-it-involves-a-republican.html
Florida Woman Changed Voters’ Party Affiliations, Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/Cheryl-hall-voter-registration-fraud.html