George Takei: there's no difference between mail-in voting and absentee voting. What is Donald so af

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George Takei
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Narrator: there's no difference between mail-in voting and absentee voting. What is Donald so afraid of? 🤔

[Igel]

1. There isn't.

And there is.

Let's say I vote absentee, I have to request a ballot. It doesn't show up, I wonder where it is. I moved in the last year? No problem, when I apply I provide my current address. I moved from south Houston to north of Houston. I reregistered within a district and my old address was no longer my registration address.. I moved from New York State to south Houston, I reregistered in another state and both voter rolls said I was a registered voter.

Let's say both Texas and NYS have mail-in voting. I don't request a ballot. If I'm not paying attention, I don't expect it. I moved in the last year? As long as I'm within a voting "domain" it's not a problem--south to north Houston, for instance. But I moved from NYS to south Houston, reregister or not mail-in voting in both states would trigger a ballot delivered to both addresses. I'm not expecting the one in NYS. Mail forwarding wouldn't have covered it so it would most likely be deposited at my old address. If somebody opened it, had some idea what my signature looked like, and returned it, it would be voter fraud.

Now, how would you find voter fraud?

Well, if the signatures weren't judged a match, the ballot would be discarded. That wouldn't be fraud.

If the signatures matched well enough, the ballot would be counted. But how would anybody detect the fraud? And who would they charge? Would it be worth charging the person?

We find out when notorious people vote in the wrong precinct or two ballots are cast only when somebody thinks it's worth checking up on them. I'm seriously not important enough for that.