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Originally Posted by chet2020
Five states have systems where most votes are cast by mail. Three blue states, a red state, and a back-and-forth state. You can monitor your ballot online from the date it is sent to you to the date they receive your completed ballot. They confirm whether your ballot was accepted, i.e. contained no errors that invalidate it, giving you time to resubmit or vote in person. Post-election, there are hard copies of the ballots available for auditing. The latter is why they have no problems with fraud.
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OK, let's say I'm a die-hard union supporting postal worker and I've got a hundreds or thousands of ballots to deliver to wherever they are supposed to be delivered for tabulation, but first I drop them off at a campaign location. The workers there steam open the envelopes and replace the ballots with new ones marked for their candidate. When all the ballots are swapped out, they call me back to pick them up. I come get them and deliver to their final destination.
You monitor your ballot online and you see that it was accepted, except the ballot they received was marked for the candidates of the opposite party. And you think "good, my votes in." You have no reason to think anything nefarious happened.
The reason everyone says there is very little voter fraud is because it's not detectable because they've had years to perfect how it's being done.