Why Vote Absentee?

Voting by absentte ballot is the best way to vote, and here's why.

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[edlynnphoto]

Actually, raceofgiants, you're wrong on every point. First of all, sure, you could hack a paper ballot reader, but if you did then you'd have to destroy the ballot to hide the evidence, in which case the absence of the ballot becomes the evidence.  It's all about the paper trail, and the mandate to preserve it. Not to mention your ability, via photocopy or scan, to do so yourself. As Reagan said, trust but verify.

[raceofgiants]

True, the paper ballot can not be hacked. But the machine that reads it can. It can also be run through a shredder if there is a cheater working in the mail room. You can't know for sure that it was counted when you mail it in. You can only *trust* that it was counted. And in that case, you don't need a photocopy as proof.

[BringoSF]

In Oregon we are lucky as Vote by Mail is the only choice we have and the whole process is super efficient. In the last presidential election in 2004, voter participation in my county was 83%.