[EL] Challenges to implementing "universal vote by mail" and limiting in person voting by November

[David Becker]

I don’t think this is a serious concern. R and D SOS in states that mail ballots to everyone haven’t seen any increase in fraud. The concerns are mostly administrative.

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From: Law-election <law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu> On Behalf Of Ilya Shapiro
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Subject: Re: [EL] Challenges to implementing "universal vote by mail" and limiting in person voting by November

I imagine it’s to ensure that there’s an actual person who’s eligible and wants to vote at the end of the address, trying to minimize harvesting, etc. What a recipe for massive fraud this would be—the real systemic kind, not the extremely isolated incidents of in-person fraud that voter ID remedies—and definitely premature to be implementing this last-resort least-bad option now. I know, I know, don’t let a crisis go to waste to implement a preexisting agenda...
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On Mar 18, 2020, at 8:08 AM, Eric J Segall <esegall at gsu.edu<mailto:esegall at gsu.edu>> wrote:
I was wondering exactly the same thing.

I hope everyone and their families are safe.

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On Mar 18, 2020, at 8:06 AM, Marty Lederman <Martin.Lederman at law.georgetown.edu<mailto:Martin.Lederman at law.georgetown.edu>> wrote:

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