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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • For someone to say that being able to research ballots ahead of time is an advantage of mail-in ballots suggests that there are people showing up polling places and realizing that they have no idea how they want to vote, resulting in them having to frantically research the issues and candidates on their phones at the polling booth or fill it out without being well informed. And that is worrying.

    Well, yeah. Without mail-in voting that is something that is going to happen.

    With mail-in voting, it becomes more like an open book test for those that want to look into things. Plenty of time to research things and fill it out at the same time, and at a relaxed pace. Versus some kind of frantic pop quiz at the tail end of a multi-hour wait in line.

    I sure hope voters that have to vote in-person plan ahead, do research ahead of time and bring notes if they need them. I somehow doubt that all do.