Oregon has used strictly vote by mail for 20 years. When one first registers, a signature and picture ID are required. When people marry, die, change addresses, etc. this info is forwarded to the Elections Dept of that county. When my mother died, we notified the Elections Dept with a Death Certificate so that her name was removed. The funeral home provided us with a paper of all the organizations that needed notification, and the Election Dept was on that list. We were told, also, that death notices in the local paper were used for info, too. We always appreciated being able to comfortably sit at home, study our voter’s pamphlet, and vote. Then, we signed the secret envelope, our signature was compared with the original, and we were through. It was easy to see that no one else had voted using our name, AND we had oaper back ups to help prevent fraud. None of this hanging chad crap!!
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