What’s the difference between absentee balloting and universal mail-in balloting? The latter might sound like a great idea, but is it really? Eric Eggers of the Government Accountability Institute answers this vitally important question.
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Script:
Is there a problem with universal mail-in balloting?
Sounds simple enough: You fill out a ballot, stick it in the mail; somebody counts it on Election Day. In fact, we already do that with absentee ballots, right? So why would universal mail-in balloting be any different?
Well, the biggest difference is that with absentee ballots, the voter specifically asks for a ballot.
With universal mail-in balloting, ballots are mailed out en masse. Millions of people who would normally go to the polls vote by mail instead.
No national election has ever been conducted this way. And there are very good reasons to be concerned that one ever should.
Reason #1:
Bureaucratic incompetence.
I don't think I have to sell you on the idea that when the government bureaucracy takes on a big new project with little preparation, the results aren..
