Countries that use mail-in voting

We seem to be doing something most of the world doesn't do. I'm guessing there's a reason why such a small percentage of the world allows mail-in votes, perhaps because Jerry Nadler was right for once.



https://twitter.com/jackposobiec/status/1591495003188375552

 

So sometimes American exceptionalism is good, and other times it's not?

Is there a spreadsheet or something we can reference to keep track?

 

Voting by mail is exceptionalism? Not according to Jerry Nadler and other dems, what changed?

In the countries that aren't using mail in ballots, I don't hear anyone complaining about threats to democracy, racism, voter suppression, or anything else.

 

Because you follow what is being written and said in EVERY country that isn't using mail in ballots? Why do I have a feeling that isn't the case.

 

I'm just trying to figure out why you care what other countries are doing.

I would happily adopt Sweden's voting system, if you will also take their health care system.

 

They also don’t have gerrymandering or the electoral college.

Would you like to eliminate all three?

 

Jimmy Carter during his long life work for election integrity reported that mail in voting was an open invitation to fraud.

A number of the folks pushing so hard for the long long long voting season and chumming the entire area with ballots, want to be able to steal and election if they can't win it fairly.

Voters Worry About Election Cheating, Don’t Trust Mail-In Voting. 'A WELL-RUN VOTING OPERATION BUILDS TRUST WITH THE VOTERS THAT GIVE IT LEGITIMACY.'

'Most voters believe cheating may have influenced this year’s elections, and think voting by mail makes it easier to cheat.'

I'm not surprised.

'57% of Likely U.S. voters believe it is likely that the outcome of some elections this year will be affected by cheating, including 30% who say it’s Very Likely. Forty percent don’t think election outcomes this year are likely to be affected by cheating, including 18% who say it’s Not At All Likely.'

 

My mother votes by mail. She receives one ballot. No doubt she'll be able to overturn an election mailing in that vote.

 

Their health care system just pulled the plug on "gender affirming care." Good for them!

 

You certainly seem obsessed with LGBTQ.

 

As strongly informative as the map is, it still doesn't get to the whole of the problem which is universal mail-in balloting, not mail-in per se. AFAIK for example no European country has the universal mail-in balloting Democrats are pushing hard for. Two or three have mail-in absentee balloting upon an application for any reason. Most have mail-in balloting with an absentee application only if the voter is out of the country.

 

I think that's a slightly false representation. Plenty of countries simply don't have the infrastructure to support mail-in voting and, of course, some don't have free and fair democratic elections at all (either in principle or in practice). If you focus on the developed democracies where it would be a practical option, it's a much more evenly mixed picture, especially considering all of the variations, conditions and processes that have been necessarily glossed over for simplicity.

As it happens, I'm not great fan of no-reason mail-in voting, but not due to any great concerns and security or trust (I just prefer the idea of voting as something you take an active choice to go and do), but I don't think this data is as strong an argument against it as you're suggesting.