Is mail-in voting less likely to be hacked?

[milestogo]

Ballots get fed through machines once they are opened, just like same day ballots.

Is there anything inherently better about voting by mail? (Other than healthwise, that is.)

[oregonjen]

1. Paper trail

[Blue Owl]

11. Them's the two important words

[phylny]

14. I don't think it's a coincidence that Virginia became solidly Blue

once we got paper ballots that are fed into a machine.

[drray23]

2. compared to electronic voting machines its way safer.

you also have a paper ballot you can go recount if their are any doubts about the tabulating machines.

[milestogo]

4. So Trump just uberpissed that his minions couldn't figure a way to fuck with the mail-in ballots

which are going heavily for Biden.

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. Nope

see for instance DeJoy's criminal slowdown of the mails to prevent votes from being delivered in time to be counted.

[crimycarny]

10. That's why we need drop boxes

And mail-in ballots are much more secure. Paper trail as many have mentioned.

[Blue Owl]

12. The DeJoy factor must be removed

If the USPS is running on all cylinders then the reliability goes way up

[Spider Jerusalem]

13. It's not, so it's way down. We have to deal with the reality we're in, not the one we'd like (n/t)

[qdouble]

5. Other than not being delivered...

Mail in votes have a pretty strong paper trail.

[SheltieLover]

6. PA Mail-ins matched polling #s!

Speaks volumes, imo.

[Salviati]

7. A number of benifits

1) no lines
2) no issue with cutting the numbers of/moving polling locations
3) no having to take special time out of your day to vote, you can vote on your schedule
4) You can take all the time you want to research obscure races and issues up for vote
5) no voter intimidation by "observers"
6) if the state is all vote by mail, turnout is likely to increase, since ballots are mailed to every registered voter. WA is going to hit about 85% turnout this year.

[brooklynite]

8. Votes aren't being hacked...

[Karadeniz]

9. I don't think the scanners of any written ballots are connected to the internet, so hacking the

Ballots shouldn't happen. Some of the tallying machines may be connected to the internet, so perhaps those results are hackable. I'm not a techie, so someone correct me if I'm wrong!