#154 "Poll worker checks ID, verifies district and crosses off name indicating ballot has been secure. "
Mail in: elections supervisor sends - via USPS - a secure ballot. No checking of "ID" necessary, because said voter had to produce proof of eligibility, with the elections supervisor... when they register to vote. No registration, no ballot.
Next?
"Where I'm at the voter feeds the ballot into the machine. That's a more secure paper trail than mail in."
Oh, and just where are those ballots, that you felt all warm and fuzzy about watching go into the counters - just where do you think those ballots end up? In your precinct, where you voted? Nope. They are gathered up (harvested, it you will), then taken to the place where the ballots are all tallied for the results in the county/parish. Gosh, sometimes they're taken to a central location and then taken to the central place where all the ballots are all tallied.
Meanwhile, mail in ballot goes from supervisor of elections -> previously registered voter -> voter completes ballot in the privacy of their own home -> returns ballot to supervisor of elections via USPS -> supervisor of elections opens ballot, confirms its eligibility, then feeds it into the tabulating machine. If the tabulator is wrong, the mailed in paper ballots are there for a manual, hand-count.
Yeah.
Anyone who is trying to defend in-person voting only as the only secure way to vote (while at the same time screwing those in the military stationed overseas, out of their right to vote) is un-American and insane.
And all your sanctimonious insistence on in-person voting being the only secure way to vote completely overlooks the quote (attributed to Stalin): "It doesn't matter who votes that counts, it only matter who counts the votes." And your wet dream of in-person voting (and its racist demand for ID) is completely impotent when face with that true danger to this democratic republic of ours.
