[pietroglyph]

States like Washington do mail-in voting quite successfully.

Vote-by-mail is cheaper (no polling places to run), increases voter turnout (which is why it’s universally opposed by the Republican party), and actually reduces fraud risk because it leaves a paper trail and removes the opportunity for voter intimidation at polling places.

[bpodgursky]

Sorry, but the very last point is nonsense on balance. Far, far more voters will be intimidated by threat of domestic violence or family pressure to vote the "right way", because the spouse or family member can literally watch them fill out the ballot and mail it in. Voting booths provide privacy in the act of voting, mailed ballots do not.

It's perfectly fine to believe that this is a reasonable tradeoff for increased turnout and general enfranchisement, but it's not going to reduce voter intimidation.

[thatswrong0]

You can have the exact same threat of violence or family pressure for voting booths. "Show me a cellphone picture of the ballot you voted with"

I think making a claim either way about voter intimidation is silly. The most important points are to increase voter turnout and to reduce large-scale fraud.

[bpodgursky]

That's just not true, many jurisdictions don't allow electronic devices, for exactly this reason: https://www.bustle.com/p/can-i-use-my-phone-while-voting-all...

[thatswrong0]

I'm sure it's illegal to pressure someone to vote a certain way as well. Do you really think someone is monitoring someone's voting booth to see if they're using their phone? Wouldn't that be in exact violation of the problem you're talking about?

How would this be enforced?

Very silly.

[triceratops]

> Far, far more voters will be intimidated by threat of domestic violence or family pressure to vote the "right way",

Citation needed. And also, is that number more than the number of people who don't vote at all because voting in person is too much of a hassle?