"It increasingly looks like Russian hackers may have affected actual vote totals."

[wildeyed]

122. There is a paper trail on the touch screen machines I vote on.

You make screen selections, then there is a little window where you double check that your screen vote matches the paper vote.

Problems with absentees are people going into nursing homes and harvesting votes from elderly and disabled people who are vulnerable. People sell their ballots too. And there are instances where BOE employees change ballots. Usually just a crazy individual who does that, but it happens regularly. All of that is much easier to do with absentee than with in-person. Hard to swing a national election that way, but you could steal a state house seat or two. Not worth it in a solidly blue or red state, but in a swing state like mine, might be worth the risk.

The good thing about vote-by-mail is there is no way to make longer lines, etc. in college and minority districts. I dunno. There are pluses and minuses to all systems.