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What are you talking about
When both spouses vote together by mail at home, one may want to see what the other is submitting and condition them to vote the way they want.
There are a lot of solutions to that problem. Fill out your vote when the other isn't home, vote in person, leave your spouse, etc. Doesn't seem like much of a problem to me
haha, leave your spouse :)
But really, I can see an abusive overbearing or just manipulative family member definitely doing this. It may not be statistically significant enough to impact an election, but there is no way to ensure there was no coercion.
Jesus Christ I'm not going down that rabbit hole. I realize the most dangerous thing an abused person can do is try to leave the relationship, but that's only one of the several options I listed. I genuinely don't understand why you're criticizing mail in ballots; my best guess is that you've seen enough far right propaganda that you genuinely think giving more people more access to voting is a bad thing.
It's not an agenda against mail-in ballots, it's just a minor flaw I noticed with some friends that is relevant to the title, but for some reason I seem to have offended the gods of voting turnout by stating it in a public forum. Seriously, some people perk their ears for the littlest reason.
...But that's ok...sometimes one can trigger the immune response in a community by saying something that could be misconstrued as contrarian.