if your elections are not day of, in person, hand counted under observation, with photo ID, then your elections are not legitimate. It’s really that simple. Instead, we basically have a fucking honor system. We have cultural and political enemies who would rather kill each other than compromise, and we’re supposed to just trust everyone not to take advantage of the massive vulnerabilities in our voting?
I can accept some kinds of absentee ballots, but those should still be able to be handled within reason, with a strong chain of custody, including signature verification and address audits. Possibly not even mailed out, but just picked up at the local BoE, with the ballot printed in accordance with the voter's original jurisdiction, handed back to that local BoE in person, and mailed out to the voter's original BoE. Absentee votes can be done reasonably, but mail-in (really: mail out voting) has no reason to exist.
I second this comment by current_horror:
Okay, well imma quote me then: