Don't buy into the lies and propaganda. Here are some actual facts:
Voting by mail, which is also called absentee voting, is available in one way or another in ALL 50 STATES.
Every single state has provisions for it.
Some states have restrictions, some do not. But they ALL have it.
ALL mail fraud, via the mail or in person, is statistically insignificant. There are a couple of exceptions, historically. But the overall fraud rate is 0.00006%. That isn't enough to swing a ballot, unless the candidates were only 5-10 votes shy of a win.
Ballots cannot be duplicated for the purpose of fraud; there are dozens of different types/designs of ballots in each jurisdition, so one never knows which one is being used, until one is presented with it. And one doesn't know if the one that YOU used, will be the same one as the one someone else uses.
The scanner system is designed to only read certain ballots in specific ways. A duplicate would be rejected.
More numbers:
Over 250 Million votes have been cast by mail over the past 20 years. There have only been 143 criminal convictions for election-related mail fraud during that same 20-year period.
That's one case, per state, once every 6-7 years.
That's it.
In addition, a few states have implemented mail-in voting already and have reported no instances of fraud at all.
Compare with JUST the state of Georgia alone, where an intruder had control over the computers that counted the vote-counting machines (in-person) for the entire state. That's not mail-in ballots. That's in-person ballots. And, because they didn't use paper ballots (which is what a mail-in would be), they couldn't manually count the votes.
So yes - the prevalence of mail fraud is higher. But that prevalence is spread out over a 20-year period. A slightly lower prevalence was focused on a single election, and had disastrous results.
NPR has a good accounting of this, and if you check the wikipedia website you can follow the source links to the articles that were used to create that wiki page.
(Never believe a wikipedia page without checking those source links first).
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