Respect dangers of mail-in voting
Mail-in vote? Enormous pressure from all fronts, Democratic Party, drive-by media, evening news and others. They all say it's safer than walking into the "voting booth," having your name checked, signing the printed form identifying you as registered voter and given a paper ballet (when optically scanned) to pick your candidate or given a temporary voting card to electronically make your selection. All this due to the pandemic where local governments quarantined your mobility and overstepped your unalienable rights of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Mail-in ballots have potential for fraud, not that the USPS won't process your ballot and deliver it properly, but it's not required in Illinois for you to mail in the ballot. Illinois allows the voter to authorize any person to return your ballot to the election authority and bypass the USPS delivery. That leads to "ballot harvesting" (or vote harvesting) of voter ballots, meaning the collecting of mail-in ballots.
President Obama's former attorney general, Eric Holder recently told Time magazine "These are changes that we should make permanent because it will enhance our democracy'. Eric Holder and Democrats want to have mail-in ballots mailed to every voter, meaning voters that are dead or moved in/out of their state and authorize "ballot harvesting" whereby political operatives go door-to-door collecting voter ballots for delivery to the election authority. This would dramatically reduce current safeguards in protecting election integrity, such as election judges protecting the voter ballot.
The pandemic is a poor excuse to change voting procedures established in the states that have been reviewed/improved and working since we the people were able to vote our choice on Election Day.
I could say "if not broke, why fix it', but our election process needs to keep with current times through improvements that include active validation of registered voters to insure that the person is a citizen, old enough to vote and living his/her life at the recorded address with the election authority.
Robert Meale
Crystal Lake