[EL] Reducing the Risk of an Election Meltdown

[James Bopp Jr]

As I understand it, most state laws, including those in Indiana, permit a voter to come to the polling place to vote, even if they have sent in an absentee ballot.  So on election night, the first thing the poll workers do is to check the poll book to see if the absentee voter came to the polling place to vote. If so, the absentee ballot is not cast.

If you open and cast the absentee ballot before the election, how do you deal with a voter who wants to come to the polling place to vote?  I assume he or she would have to be prohibited from doing that. My policy preference is that the voter have this option since things might have changed since he or she sent in their absentee ballot and they may want to change their vote based on this additional information. 
Is there another option or do you disagree with my policy preference?  Jim Bopp
In a message dated 3/20/2020 3:18:27 PM US Eastern Standard Time, larrylevine at earthlink.net writes:
As you note, some states already permit processing absentee ballots ahead of election day. There is not good reason why every state should not do that. That would lessen but not eliminate the issue of late and delayed results.
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