[bitsinthesky]

It’s the same trade off in all secure systems. Reducing false positives in exchange for false negatives. Implementing new secure standards would have disproportionate effect on preventing legitimate voters from voting, for very small gain in preventing bad actors. Research from some years ago had the ratio being a few orders of magnitude difference. Stopping 300 legitimate votes from being cast to prevent 1 fraudulent vote makes no sense. In any case, these shenanigans can get you a felony and we’ve repeatedly seen very low rates of this kind of fraud.

That is to say, you can swing more votes in more effective and legal ways than flubbing mail in ballots.

On the other hand, being able to land such a job with no substantial checks who you are is pretty crazy. You would think a six figure employee would warrant at least that amount of attention!