Reply To: Eliminating vote by mail

My state has had vote by mail since 1995. (It actually started in ’87 for special elections) . Certainly it lacks the charm of driving miles over icy country roads to a 100+year old Grange Hall that was heated by a huge wood stove. (In those day’s paper ballots were used.)

What I wonder is why every state that decided to have VBM this year decided to reinvent the wheel when some states already had effective procedures in place for safe and secure vote by mail? I’m guessing it was a time issue. I will say the last time I voted in person was 1980. Starting in 82 I began voting absentee for all elections until moving to OR where I enjoyed voting at the Grange until 95 (despite some horrible drives to the polling place).