Mail voting and voting access

did:plc:btzaioaflx2htr3rdabuesqg · 2026-02-13T15:08:35.014Z

How would they know if they are dem or republican votes? They're in envelopes. I know you can open envelopes, but if you go to the early voting site, at least in my state, you drop them in the locked box there and it doesn't get opened until it gets to the Supervisor of Elections office. But if

Discussion of mail voting and voting access for groups unable to vote in person: military and contractors abroad, students abroad, homebound and disabled voters, seniors, and voters distant from polling places. Posts state “Mail in Ballots is NEEDED!” and argue mail voting is “necessary and very safe.” One post addresses incarcerated people’s voting rights, saying “nobody’s voting rights… should depend on being law-abiding.”

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2/13/26, 08:37 PM
👍 for Jennifer McClellan from Richmond, VA
2/13/26, 08:37 PM
👍 for Timothy Kaine from Norfolk, VA
2/13/26, 08:36 PM
👍 for Eugene Vindman from Woodbridge, VA
2/13/26, 08:35 PM
Some countries that DON'T have mail in ballots. . . Russia, China, North Korea
2/13/26, 08:31 PM
From a voter in 📍 Charlottesville, VA
2/13/26, 08:29 PM
👍 for Eugene Vindman from Woodbridge, VA
2/13/26, 08:17 PM
Republican war on women , AGAIN . First they came for our rights over our OWN body , now they are coming for our Voting rights. Shhhh republicans females , just do nothing , 😤let us democrats save us!!
2/13/26, 08:11 PM
From a voter in 📍 Forest Knolls, CA
2/13/26, 07:57 PM
11.8M EU citizens pay taxes to governments they cannot vote for Article URL: [https://homolova.sk/missingvoters/][1] Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006738][2] Points: 4 # Comments: 0 [1]: https://homolova.sk/missingvoters/ [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006738 https://homolova.sk/missingvoters/
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2/13/26, 07:42 PM
I just don’t get the ”illegals voting” argument. If they’re not eligible to vote, they’re not on the voter rolls. Right? End of discussion, or am I missing something?
No. Everyone can vote by mail in Spain. Wrong map again.
2/13/26, 07:41 PM
It's a substantial improvement, however.
2/13/26, 07:30 PM
In the Western US, they just mail you a ballot if you are registered in several states because your polling location is basically on Jupiter when it comes to distance. It is incredibly convenient. Same if you live in, say, the outback with all the giant spiders or any extremely rural place.
2/13/26, 07:29 PM
Yes Mail in Ballots is NEEDED! So the Disabled and the Handicapped can Exercise Their Rights and Vote! And Seniors who can’t drive anymore CAN VOTE 🗳️ BY MAIL !
2/13/26, 07:27 PM
Name one place you can vote without presenting a driver's license or state ID card. I'll wait...
2/13/26, 07:21 PM
Mail in's,will be the death of democracy. While he's got you watching polls, maps,and satellites. I still for the life of me deaux,not get. That someone can change how we vote in the year to cast your vote. Must less it be, someone running in this election changing the rules. Conflict of interest 🤔
2/13/26, 07:18 PM
Why do some people think they can make a convincing point by posing hypothetical questions that cannot be backed up by real evidence? (Even IF dead people voted, no one could know who they were voting for because in America, no one can link any counted ballot back to the person who cast it.)
2/13/26, 07:03 PM
States control voting. I thought.
2/13/26, 06:51 PM
It's not too early to register to VOTE! Cape Canaveral FL:
2/13/26, 06:47 PM
Because non-citizen voting is already illegal:
2/13/26, 06:34 PM
They're planning to have a full 45-day early vote window (just like regular elections, even though it's a special) for this, so yes, add your name to the list and you should be fine!
2/13/26, 06:25 PM
Voting machines should be illegal because they’re vulnerable. All voting should be mail-in, hand counted.
2/13/26, 06:22 PM
Jacob Roginsky is now officially a candidate for #VA01, aiming to unseat Rob Wittman. He describes himself as a trained physicist and mathematician, a former Navy scientist at the Naval Warfare System in Dahlgren, and a constitutional scholar of Ukrainian heritage. 1/
2/13/26, 06:22 PM
👎 for Jennifer Kiggans from Virginia Beach, VA “Unfortunate support for the party line versus truth, honor, and what’s best for her constituents.”
2/13/26, 06:16 PM
Being fully disabled, i can safely say Canada has mail in ballots!
"nobody’s voting rights, and I do truly mean NOBODY’S, should depend on being law-abiding."
2/13/26, 06:10 PM
I think the only “good” argument for people not voting while incarcerated is that they likely have limited information on what or who they’re voting for outside of the info packaged with a ballot. Even then, I support their right to vote, though.
2/13/26, 06:03 PM
Time to mobilize the troops again. It would be great to see volunteers to help folks get all the necessary paperwork and documentation needed to vote NO MATTER WHAT wrenches the opposition throws in the machines. I would donate funds to help pay for this.
2/13/26, 06:00 PM
Yes there is. The numbers are minuscule and does not have an impact on election outcomes(which is why you shouldn’t disenfranchise millions to try to stop it) but it’s not zero. www.npr.org/2025/07/30/n...
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/30/n...
2/13/26, 05:56 PM
That’s the plan. I am just thinking they underestimated the impact this will also have on Republican voters. Also, they keep saying they want to get rid of mail-in ballots. A lot of old, conservative leaning voters mail in.
2/13/26, 05:53 PM
nobody’s voting rights, and I do truly mean NOBODY’S, should depend on being law-abiding.
2/13/26, 05:41 PM
“It really does not help my confidence that the information we are trying to use to make really important decisions, like the determination of voter eligibility, is so inaccurate.”
2/13/26, 05:29 PM
From a voter in 📍 Mason, TX
2/13/26, 05:27 PM
Not true... I vote in the UK and live in France - we call them 'postal votes' but same thing (my wife votes in the US, from France)
2/13/26, 05:10 PM
How elections are conducted is up to the Individual States,& to some extent, Congress. The Elections Clause: "each state establishes how it will hold congressional elections, subject to Congress adopting or altering the state requirements." H. R. 2987, the Email Elections bill, is still the law.
2/13/26, 05:03 PM
Ok, thanks for clarifying! I would've thought it hard to interpret as not saying "there's a synergy between voting & organizing, don't skip voting bc that 1 day sets the tone for your organizing for next 2/4/whatever term length years" but malicious interpretation is very flexible
2/13/26, 04:57 PM
If we do away with mail voting, how will our military vote, students studying abroad, contractors and others working abroad, people who are home bound and physically unable to vote in person, voters who live where there is no polling place near them, etc? Mail voting is necessary and very safe. 🗳️📫
2/13/26, 04:52 PM
Elections aren’t within the purview of the DHS secretary...
2/13/26, 04:47 PM
Honestly I'd rather have noncitizens vote, period. They pay taxes, they get affected by government policy, they should have a say in that policy.
2/13/26, 04:27 PM
First step: is your voter registration up-to-date? Check now, don’t wait!
2/13/26, 04:22 PM
That's great! I got a confirmation on my mail in ballot request as soon as I filled out the prompts on the site.
2/13/26, 04:22 PM
The same state Supreme Court that allowed voter registration purges in 2024? My hopes are not high.
2/13/26, 04:16 PM
Virginia Politics
2/13/26, 04:14 PM
So glad my country is rolling out poorly designed, ineffective, and almost certainly corrupt technologies to fix the voter fraud problem we don't have.
2/13/26, 03:57 PM
One consistent pattern of the GOP is limiting voter turnout. They can’t win a majority without lying or rigging elections and creating distrust in the electoral process. Polling places will be limited and long lines again. Democrats always want to get more people to vote - ask yourselves why?
2/13/26, 03:47 PM
So a thought I am having is that the people who say we will not out of this are right and wrong at the same time. He is my take, if we vote in such large numbers they can't deny. Which stops them and we can take the necessary actions that voting then gives us. But if we do show up we are screwed.
2/13/26, 03:27 PM
Brown people will be turned away and carted away to keep them from voting. Women will have to show double IDs. It’s ludicrous and almost half of you are okay with it. Boo.
2/13/26, 03:19 PM
We have been fortunate to not politicize elections......yet. Living next to states is like being stuck next to someone covered in shit, you might not get any directly on you but eventually will start smelling like them too.
2/13/26, 03:08 PM
How would they know if they are dem or republican votes? They're in envelopes. I know you can open envelopes, but if you go to the early voting site, at least in my state, you drop them in the locked box there and it doesn't get opened until it gets to the Supervisor of Elections office. But if

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Mail voting and voting access