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The thing I heard that is most laughable is that he has voted via mail! He is "allowed to" but no one else is because fraud.

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I don't believe the concept of "voting by mail" is at question. It's the method of getting the ballots into individuals' hands. Sounds like you're referring to absentee ballots where someone registers in advanced for an absentee ballot and has it sent to them. _I believe_, in this case, vote by mail ballots are sent to currently registered voters by default. That means there are a flood of official ballots, meant for an individual, that are sitting in mailboxes, being sent to deceased people or people that have moved districts, etc. Those ballots can be filled in by someone else and can be intercepted to prevent counting.

That's how I understand the situation to be.

I can't speak about other states, but in California (particularly Los Angeles) to get ballot in mail you need to request it (there's an option to request permanent vote by mail, but still most people don't do that, I suppose the pandemic will change that).

All the mail in ballots require a signature which is typically verified against the signature in DMV or one you provided during registration.

Sometimes the ballots are rejected because it doesn't match. You can actually check online if your vote was counted.

If you decide to cast a vote in person and you received ballot by mail, you can surrender your mail ballot too get in person one. If you don't provide one, you can cast a provisional one, which will be counted only of they don't receive mail in ballot, if they do you also will be in trouble.

John Olivier also had response [1] about voter fraud.

[1] https://youtu.be/l-nEHkgm_Gk?t=10m8s

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