No, and as an aside "(my) boy" isn't such so you are off base there. I object because mail-in balloting has numerous issues related to a variety of things all of which are highly problematic.
We could start with elections are supposed to be held on the first Tuesday of November, not over several weeks or even months using mail-in ballots. Early voting not only violates federal and many state laws doing this, but it ruins the intent of a particular date on which voting occurs.
Next, going off that is the potential for fraud from ballot harvesting, improperly mailed to or from ballots, inability to fix a mis-marked ballot, etc. All of this makes mail-in voting highly suspect.
As it stands, there is virtually no control on who marks a ballot and little or no control on ensuring that the person voting is eligible or actually the person claimed. The signature on the envelope is nearly worthless as a control as the ways it is matched are all but a joke.
Since there is no chain of custody whatsoever on mail-in ballots that too becomes not just problematic, but highly suspect. In most, if not all, states ballots are separated from the envelope once arriving to be counted. Once that happens all chain of custody ends.
I'd add to all that that electronic voting is equally bad. There is too much solid evidence that these machines can easily be tampered with to ignore. When a computer expert can show how someone with even limited instruction can easily reprogram such a machine, even while in use in an election, and do so in a way that the hack programming will spread to other machines while being undetectable, there is a major problem.
We need elections everyone can have full faith in. That means:
In-person voting on paper ballots with a chain of custody trail involved.
Universal requirements for voter ID and strict requirements for voter registration.
The use of mail-in balloting being limited to the greatest extent possible.
No "early voting" or other extended voting nonsense. The election is held on one or several days at one time and that's when you vote, PERIOD!
Counting can be done electronically but by machines designed specifically to be difficult or impossible to alter in function. A full paper trail is maintained just in case.
