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Old 08-17-2020, 09:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Carlsondm View Post
Vote by mail or absentee ballots are used by nursing home residents without cars, by Americans who must work out of town on Election Day, by many traveling retirees. I used it when I was healing from surgery, and found I qualified later to continue voting by mail. It was very convenient, legal and monitored. President Trump has requested to vote by mail this November also. It is a safe and well tested system that has been around for decades.
Not decades. It's been around since the Civil War, in 1864. So that'd be - for 156 years.
Florida had officially become a state only 20 years prior.