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by davidw 2060 days ago
Oregon has a great voting system. Works very well - supposedly the easiest in the country. Everything is by mail. Fraud rates are extremely low.
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Oregon, Washington, Colorado, and Utah all have 100% mail voting. I’ve lived in Colorado and Washington, and had a very easy time voting in both.
> Fraud rates are extremely low.

How do you know that?

It's a reasonable question.

You can determine to some extent whether postal votes have been tampered with after they have been cast. Or whether more results were returned than were issued.

But you can never realistically know what happened at the time of casting. Coercion is invisible with postal voting.

Can you determine if some votes have been destroyed?

(I really don't know how that system works.)