# Republican State Senator wants to end mail-in voting

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-state-senator-wants-to-end-mail-in-voting/925336>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [November 11, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-state-senator-wants-to-end-mail-in-voting/925336 "2020-11-11T16:41:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![sweepkick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@sweepkick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweepkick)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-state-senator-wants-to-end-mail-in-voting/925336/61 "2020-11-14T04:57:56Z")

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> [@dtilque](#):
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> The thing with Dowless that agzem posted was a real case of voter fraud with absentee ballots. It didn’t happen in this election, but rather 2018. Basically, it was a case of ballot harvesting, which is probably the biggest hazard of all-mail voting. The main way to prevent it is to educate the voters to not trust random strangers with their ballot.

There you go again, using that word “educate”. The right ain’t too fond of that word. I mean, if they educated the public to ensure instances of voter fraud are minimized, they wouldn’t have anything to scream “voter fraud” about when they lose.

Also see: abortion. Educating the public about sex, including the use of birth control, would definitely have an effect to lowering the amount of abortions. But then that would negatively impact their ability to engage in their recreational outrage.

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**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-state-senator-wants-to-end-mail-in-voting/925336/62 "2020-11-16T18:03:20Z")

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> [@casdave](#):
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> You are floundering around like a dying whale on a beach, flapping uselessly toward Jan 20th when the humane killer will come around and put you out of your desperate misery.

Moderating: Tone it down. No warning.

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