I have a problem with the mail in vote mindset because yes it can be corrupted, lost, or simply late on arrival – PB/TK
Voting by mail is fair, safe, and easy. Why don’t more states use it? – By David Roberts / May 27 2017
Earlier this week, Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep Earl Blumenauer, both Democrats from Oregon, introduced a bill that would expand their state’s vote-by-mail system to the entire country.
It’s not a new notion. Wyden has been pushing versions of the bill since 2010. But given the events of the past year — Trump’s narrow electoral-college victory, accusations of voter fraud, voter-suppression laws in various states — it is more relevant than ever. Its Senate co-sponsor list has grown to 19 and now includes leftie stalwarts like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
The bill has little chance of passage — one of the core truths of US politics is that anything that increases voting turnout hurts Republicans, so they inevitably oppose it. But at the very least it ought to kick up a national conversation about America’s abysmal voting system and one dead-simple way to fix it.
Continue to vox.com article: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/27/15701708/voting-by-mail
