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[quote=Anonymous]Not a Republican, so I can't speak for them, but I don't really like early voting, either.  I think that there is something to be said for having everyone vote based upon the same information.  What happens if a candidate dies or becomes incapacitated or drops out of the electoral race between when a voter votes and the actual election day?

As for mail-in voting:  I'm certainly in favor of it when it is actually needed (voter unable to vote in person or out of town), but not on a universal basis.  It breaks the chain-of-custody for ballots and potentially breaks the idea of a secret ballot.  In an ideal world, the number of mailed-in ballots would be low enough that it would not make a difference in election outcomes.

I realize that vote fraud is low in the US, and I am not calling mail-in ballots fraudulent, but I do think that it is important for elections to appear to be legitimate, in addition to actually being legitimate.  This is why I also support required voter identification at polling places (and, along with that, free identification available to any eligible voter).  Again, I don't personally see any of this as solving an actual problem, but it would reduce the chances for a losing candidate for office to be able to convince people that election results are illegitimate, and that would be a good thing for democracy in general.[/quote]

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