When my father died (2008), they already had his name off the voter rolls when I went to report it. As soon as a death certificate is recorded in Georgia, it goes to the Secretary of State's office, or whichever office takes care of those things. I was surprised. So I never bothered to report it when my mother died. I suppose you could murder someone just before the election and hide their body until after you voted in their place.
Like other things, I'm down the middle. I don't see absentee voting as a huge problem or as no problem. It seems to me we need the option and we need to make it less easy to cheat.
The difference in absentee voting and mail voting is that you have to request an absentee ballot and verify who you are and why you want it. With mail in ballots, they send one to everybody, even dead people.
I never heard of mailing ballots to everybody. The powers that be are trying to mislead people into thinking that. What some states have done, or want to do, is mail an application for an absentee ballot to everyone. There would be plenty of time to check to see if an application for a ballot was from someone who was on the voter rolls or not, before they send the actual ballot out. If they don't check the voter rolls first, the state is guilty of laziness. It seems like the only ones that would be a problem are those people that moved recently. Btw, no excuse required here for absentee
Different states have different rules. Isn't it up to each state to decide if they want mail in ballots?
I remain confused. Even after reading this: An absentee ballot is generally used in every state to refer to a ballot filled out by a voter who cannot, for various reasons, physically make it to a voting location on Election Day. A mail-in ballot is used more broadly to refer to ballots sent through the mail, including in all-mail voting states and some forms of absentee voting.
Yes. Last week. Congresswoman Maloney won. It was a Democratic primary. They had to count nearly 10 times the number of absentee ballots than what they usually get---more than 400,000 I think.