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Can't you see that having to stand in line for hours is part of the appeal of mail in voting? I enjoyed having my ballot at home, being able to do extra research on local issues on the ballot, and only taking a trip to my mail box, all on my own schedule and time frame. What's the point of standing in line for hours and hours to vote? It shouldn't be that way at all. Voting should be widely available and Easy for anyone who wants to exercise their rights. Why is the reality of the situation that even for the lower traffic primaries, people still have to wait in lines for hours in order to take 2 minutes to vote. If anything should be fixed, it should be the huge lines and wait times at a lot of polling places, so that is not a 3-5 hour process just to vote.
You are absolutely right about the speed of voting. It should be faster. Funny how we can buy a lottery ticket along with tens of millions or hundreds of millions of other tickets bought, we can determine within moments where and when the winning ticket was purchased. The problem with mail in ballots is the ability for fraud. There are ways that it can be done, something along the lines of crypto coins. Issued based on social security number and drivers licenses. It can be done, we just need to spend a bit of time making as close to a perfect system as possible.