[Leonard_of_Q]

That'd be mostly a net-positive since mail-in voting seems to be hard to get right in your country. Better to get rid of it in all but the most pressing cases - those who can not leave the house, overseas military and such - and have people go to the voting booth themselves, show their ID, get a ballot and fill it out using a writing implement. Do the count locally at the end of the day and send the ballots to a central location for another count. You'll have a "paper trail" in case the count is questioned, you get the results the same day, you call make sure only those eligible to vote do so and more. If it can be done in places ranging from rural Sweden (population density < 1/km2) to urban India it surely can be done in the USA.

[nickthegreek]

> That'd be mostly a net-positive since mail-in voting seems to be hard to get right in your country

Strawman. You might have the belief that it’s hard to get right, but that seems based on the American news sources you are consuming from your spit in the world. In reality, there are very little issues with this.

[Leonard_of_Q]

It can be done mostly right but isn't in many places in the USA where ballots are sent to everyone on the voter records no matter whether they still live there or even live at all. Where there are no or insufficient checks on whether the ballots are filled out by the registered voter or by someone else. The is plenty of documentation on this, if the news sources you follow don't report on this you're missing part of the picture.

The real strawmen are the reasons given for not requiring ID when casting your ballot. Here in Sweden there is nobody who complains about having to show ID when casting your votes, nor was this ever a problem in the Netherlands.

[AnimalMuppet]

Well... there are very few documented issues with this. There are many claimed issues with this. While there is certainly the opportunity for there to be issues, the evidence doesn't match the claims.