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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
Agree. I'm not concerned over the minimal impact of fraud to date, but much more concerned over what MIGHT happen
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What might happen can be somewhat predicted by what has already happened. Past precedence demonstrates that we can consider this - not a non-issue, but not even on the top 10 list of "things to be concerned about." There are states that already only do mail-in, and several states that combine it with in-person voting, and some states that do both of those plus internet voting.
The result of all three already-existing systems is - there is nothing happening that shows any statistical significance.
I'd be more concerned about what "might" happen if we forced everyone to show up at the polls while there's still the COVID-19 virus going around in November. Because past precedence shows that "death" and "hospitalization" and "spreading of the virus" IS absolutely positively statistically significant when people congregate in close quarters.
In addition, knowing that you have to risk death in order to vote is likely to scare off those who are most at risk. And those who are most at risk, also have the most to lose if we end up with certain governmental results from votes. They are the ones who need to vote, more than anyone else.