Two weeks to receive ballots is insane, especially given that you would expect local mail to take maybe one, two days tops to reach its destination. If you really wanted to have mail-in voting, three days seems more than sufficient and still gives time for recounts and other verification processes before the result must be certified. Allowing it right up until the vote becomes final screams like a process that would be prime for cheating and errors.

Or just scrap mail-in entirely and encourage people to vote in person so their vote doesn't end up randomly discarded because a postal worker threw it in the trash.

Two weeks to receive ballots is insane, especially given that you would expect local mail to take maybe one, two days tops to reach its destination. If you really wanted to have mail-in voting, three days seems more than sufficient and still gives time for recounts and other verification processes before the result must be certified. Allowing it right up until the vote becomes final screams like a process that would be prime for cheating and errors.

Or just scrap mail-in entirely and encourage people to vote in person so their vote doesn't end up randomly discarded because a postal worker through it in the trash.