[meridian5850]

First of all, I don't think anyone has a major issue with ABSENTEE voting where a voter requests a ballot, but DO have a major problem with states mass mailing ballots out to all registered voters regardless of whether they intend to vote or not. Big difference.

And second, if anyone doesn't think there is much voter fraud, then I'm just shaking my head. There was a story in a major east coast newspaper a week or so ago detailed by the person who did it in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania how it has been done for decades. He also trained others who then trained others how to do it. It was a large scale operation, run like the mafia he said.

Some of the ways it was done:

They had people in nursing homes "help" residents fill out their ballots.
They had postal employees who knew their route was in a particular voting demographic who would then just dump all the ballots and were willing to sacrifice some of "their" ballots knowing more of the other party's ballots wouldn't get counted.
They had people knocking on doors claiming to be from the election commission and that they would deliver the homeowners ballots to the precinct. Shockingly, many voters did this because - lazy. They would steam open the ballot envelope and substitute a new one marked for the preferred candidates and sealed back up. The signature card in the ballot envelope wasn't disturbed, so the ballot was then "guaranteed" authentic when it came time to tally it.
All the thousands of altered mail in ballots collected would then be put in mailboxes throughout the city/community so as not to raise suspicion.

He said it worked best in local elections where a few hundred votes could swing an election, but that it was also done in state and national elections as well. Don't forget, George W. Bush officially won Florida in 2000 by 537 votes.

So, yeah, voter fraud is a thing. And it's bigger than most people realize. It's just that the fraudsters have gotten so good at it over time that it is hard to detect, which is why one party always claims it isn't happening. And it's the party that almost always seems to benefit from it.

If a voter doesn't feel safe going to the polls, then be proactive and request an absentee ballot, fill it out and then drop it off at the appropriate location.