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by WillPostForFood 150 days ago
France is an example. They allowed mail in voting, had issues with fraud, then banned it.

https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/57152/why-isnt-...

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… in 1975.

I have EXCELLENT, current news for you, comrade. Since then, I can point you to six States in the USA that have implemented mail-in voting that is demonstrable secure and gives far more people the ability to vote than mandatory in-person voting. Isn’t that simply wonderful to hear? And, to boot, lest you worry about volume, one of those States alone (sunny California) is nearly the same population as France was in 1975! So even having large populations vote entirely by mail is proven to be a non-issue! Phew, I’m glad we can stop trotting out fear mongering and speculative arguments of unproven inevitable doom to stupidly disenfranchise voters!

There are open accusations of mail-in fraud in California, not a settled issue. France is an interesting example because there was fraud, settled issue.

It seems obvious, no?

1: Vote in person, with ID

2: Mail ballots out, mail ballots in

Which will have more fraud?

France isn’t that interesting of an example given the exponential changes to how mail-in ballots work that have been implemented in the last 50 years. Using France as your lone example is like citing to the Challenger launch and ignoring every subsequent success in deciding if you’re going to launch a rocket. It’s almost delusional.