Voting by mail is secure, but it has a seriously low-tech downside: your signature
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One of the main reasons absentee ballots get rejected is that the signature you write on them doesn’t match with what the state has on file for you.
By now you’ve thought seriously about voting by mail. You’ve seen the long lines of angry and/or nervous and/or bored mask-wearing people outside of polling places, as in Milwaukee during the primaries, and you don’t want that to be you. What you might not realize is that while voting by mail is widely considered to be secure, it’s still a clunky, low-tech process governed by decades-old laws. And whether or not your vote is counted could easily come down to the way you sign your ballot.