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  1. Doug Massey 1211 Accepted Answer Community Answer

    Absentee voting is allowed everywhere in the United States, when a voter lets the election board know that they are unable to vote in person (for any one of a number of permissible reasons).

    Mail-in voting is a term that has picked up momentum this year and typically refers to ballots by voters who want to vote by mail, for any reason at all. COVID-19 is nominally a pretty good reason to not want to vote in person, of course, but it's not on the list of permissible reasons to get an absentee ballot in some states.  

    So that's the distinction: "mail-in voting" typically means vote-by-mail when anyone can do it, for any reason, and "absentee voting" is where the voter needs to have a permissible reason. The mechanics of the voting are pretty much the same -- you request a ballot (though some states mail them to everyone automatically), you fill it out, you sign it, you mail it back.  Anyone who says that one method is somehow very safe from fraud where the other method is swamped with fraud is mostly likely lying, for political purposes.

    UTC 2020-09-12 03:57 PM 0 Comments

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