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Originally Posted by trickyy
the system could be defrauded, though, as there is the option of someone else picking up your ballot. they would have to forge your signature to do this. to make any real impact, the crook would have to forge/collect many signatures. the election officials may get suspicious if one person picks up numerous ballots.
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I think I'd feel a lot better about absentee ballots if the signatures had to be notarized on the ballot itself, and if notaries were not allowed to accompany the voting recruiters, and if "get out the vote" people were prohibited by law from actually touching the ballots at any point.
There are lots of ways to scam stuff through the mails. It gets done a LOT, which is why the US Post Office has it's own police force, the Postal Inspectors. Some ways tried in the past include adding numbers onto the address. For example, if a criminal lives at a single family dwelling on 123 smith street, the criminal would fill out one form "so and so, 123 smith street Apt #1", the next one a different name at "123 Smith Street Apt. #2", et cetera. They'd all get dropped in the same mailbox, and the criminal could get a lot. Multiply that times 50 people doing it per county, and it can make a BIG difference. Of course, it's still criminal and is easy to catch, SO DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!!!