By way of an example, let me help you reconsider mail-in ballots for elections. I received in the mail a letter from the unemployment office in Illinois. I opened it and there was a check in the envelope. But strangely enough the name didn’t immediately register, but it was a female and was clearly labeled with my address. I wasn’t exactly sure what to do with the check. But after a few minutes thinking about the check and the name, it suddenly dawned on me who it was. It was the woman I had bought my home from 19 years prior. YES, 19 years prior she lived there, and somehow the State records still had her at my address. IMAGINE HOW STUNNED I WAS. It clearly shows that the mailing addresses used by various department of government have serious deficiencies. Now extrapolate that to a national election. How many ballots were incorrectly sent to the wrong person?

^{So now that brings me to the 2020 elections, where the federal government and in particular Democrats unjustifiably pushed mail-in ballots rather allowing voting on a particular day like has been the tradition for centuries. The rationale was that due to the pandemic, it was not safe to have large groups of people assembling to vote.}

Well, we now know that was absurd. COVID is not as contagious as once thought and the impact of getting COVID is most severe for those individuals with co-morbidities or in other words other diseases affecting their immune system.

There are several issues with mail-in ballots particularly the way it was handled in 2020. First many of the ballots were sent out before the debates between presidential candidates. Doing this deprives voters of having a meaningful knowledge base to cast a vote. Second, from my simple example one clearly sees there are accuracy issues that may have impacted the election, but who knows. The database of names and addresses used by government are not the most reliable because the government doesn’t have to rely on them to earn a living. Advertising agencies and marketing companies make it their living ensuring the accuracy of the list of addresses where clients send direct mail. And since direct mail has less than a 1% success rate, wasted mailings to invalid addresses only makes it even more costly.

In summation, mail-in ballots are ripe for abuse and illegitimate outcomes. I am not in favor of widespread mail-in ballots, and further would not allow ballots to be sent out until voters had the knowledge they needed to make an informed decision.