89 Articles About Why Voting By Mail is a Very Bad Idea

Are you wondering why voting by mail or absentee is a bad idea? Are you looking for information about the problems encountered by all absentee voting systems? Well then, welcome to The No Vote By Mail Project’s Website. There’s hundreds of articles now in the archives, so I thought I’d put together a giant list of [...]

Two Articles You Might Find Interesting Concerning Absentee Voting

First up, a man has admitted to using his deceased mother’s absentee ballot to vote. He’s facing 5 years of jail time….
http://www.wpsdtv.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=a95b477b-ffd6-4db6-a4f8-9c3ead68c7a4
And a college student asks, “Should We Dump the Absentee Ballot?” And specifically, he asked yours truly…
http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/3121.cfm
Then there’s this great essay over at Blackboxvoting.org, not specifically about Absentee Voting, but it’s about the best [...]

Ohio Secretary of State Wants to Make Voting Worse with VBM

Repeating the Vote-By Mail mantra, Ohio’s Secretary of State Brunner, “thinks some counties would find voting by mail more convenient and less expensive than opening polls on Election Day, and she wants the idea debated.”
Notice that she hasn’t argued that VBM is more secure, trustworthy, or acccurate. But she is worried about security:
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/04/15/votebymail.ART_ART_04-15-08_A1_RE9UB8A.html?sid=101
“She also wants [...]

Absentee Voting News for April 4th, 2008

Party switchers getting wrong absentee ballots
Allentown Morning Call - 15 hours ago
Marilyn Larson, 65, of Newtown said she’s glad her husband checked his ballot as soon at it arrived in the mail. The couple switched to the Democratic Party last month to vote in the primary. When her husband, Jerry, 66, opened his ballot, …
Snafu sends [...]