Totally disagree. And beyond the cheating which we have already seen, there is the time it takes to count them all.
In NY they held primaries on June 23 for Congressional Districts. We are talking tens-of-thousands of votes. Took three-plus weeks to tally them all.
In November it would be tens-of-millions of votes and it will take into 2021 to tally the ballots.
This too:
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In 2018, nationwide 91.8 percent of all absentee ballots sent in by voters to local election offices were counted, leaving 8.2 percent not counted — a significant disqualification rate. For the last presidential election, in 2016, states reported their numbers somewhat differently, but still the rates of disqualification are alarming. For example, Georgia reported counting 93.6 percent of absentee ballots returned, meaning that 6.4 percent were not counted. New York reported counting 90.7 percent of returned absentee ballots, with 9.3 percent uncounted.
These ballots largely are rejected not because the voter is unqualified, but because of errors in the process of the voter’s submission. Especially when it is possible to argue that the process defect was not the voter’s fault, there can be a sympathetic argument for counting the valid voter’s ballot despite the process problem. In fact, that sympathetic argument can be dressed up with constitutional principles and judicial precedents. And in a situation where the voter did not want to vote absentee in the first place, but did so solely because of health reasons caused by Covid-19, the argument for counting a valid voter’s absentee ballot despite an innocent process defect might seem even more compelling — or, at the very least, worth pursuing in court if it might make the difference between winning and losing the election. The result: lawsuits.
This heightened risk of litigation over absentee ballots is not just theoretical. Most of the most significant vote-counting disputes in recent decades involved fights over absentee votes. Consider just a few of many examples.
The 1984 election for Indiana’s 8th Congressional District saw an ugly fight in court, and in Congress itself, over absentee ballots that arguably deserved to be counted even though they had not been properly “witnessed” as required by state law. In the 2008 U.S. Senate race in Minnesota, between incumbent Norm Coleman and challenger Al Franken, absentee ballots were disqualified for various procedural reasons — some improperly so, others in accordance with state law. Still others were counted even though they were comparable to ballots that had been rejected, thereby generating an equal protection issue that took courts eight months to resolve (while keeping the crucial seat vacant in the middle of the financial crisis). ...
States are wisely expanding absentee voting, but they should also prepare for more vote-counting disputes this fall.
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