In New Jersey, no ID is required to vote. Nevertheless, my current signature and the one on file is subject to ocular inspection and comparison before I'm allowed in the booth.

Let me get this straight: a #Trump appointee, the Postmaster General, is in charge of delivering to each citizen a permit to vote--the bar-coded return envelope for the #ballot

No chance for shenanigans there. Expect mail delivery to be on time in rural MAGA counties. Mail delivery in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Boston, and Baltimore suffers unexplained delays.

And you need to be mighty confident that the real voter won't show up. And even then the amount of effort involved in each ballot makes the ROI really low.

*And* of course this scenario is entirely orthogonal to the ostensible vulnerability this EO describes.

I know you're already aware of (perhaps all of) the vulnerabilities that exist in the system today. I bring this up for completeness, not to dispute what you said or to suggest that I think you hadn't considered it. I therefore mention it because other people read these threads and can benefit from them.

¹) It's possible a Wahlschein has been invalidated and that's checked as well.

c) at least advise States that parted with their voter lists to securely make *new* IDs and as close to the ballot package distribution as possible. Ideally this new ID should be generated and printed when clerk signs the package to be mailed out.

> problem they're actually trying to solve: Democrats voting.

This EO deals exactly with this, IMO in a viable way:

1. The voter lists handed over by the State (voluntarily or not) contain the very data that will be used to make a barcode to be placed on the *outside* of the outer envelope.

2. Each and every such envelope *must* travel through at least one high-volume mail sorting machine. In this point, a bug in the software seeing a "suspected non-citizen" barcode can put their ballot aside for later inspection. While some 5,000 DBCS machines are in operation, it is only a few types of them. And only those close to the CCL-s matter. (In few States tabulation occurs at County/Municipal level)

@mattblaze
It is well in your capacity to call to secure procedure against the above scenario.

a) simplest: The outer envelope ID should be registered at arrival then after separating it should be *published* online.
b) robust: Hash(ID) printed on the inside additional wraper on the top and bottom. Voter is instructed to tear this wrapper to two, one to be returned, second for a protest had their H(ID) was not registered upon arrival.

Kind regards, your welcome, Ohir Ripe

Or rejected, which is great if (let's say) your name changed and you signed your old name.

Vote in mail is the best and I hate that I now live in a State without it, but I'll keep fighting for it because more people vote with mail in ballots (which is why some are trying to kill it)

One advantage is you get a receipt and can go to a web site to see that your vote was received and counted.

A useful feature available in California is they can send you texts or emails at this step saying that they got your ballot, and when it was counted.
(Though you do have to sign up for the ballot notifications)

And I'm guessing if there was a problem you'd get a different message explaining how to fix the ballot. (But I haven't seen that one)

The idea that mail-in voting invites fraud is simply not supported by reality.

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