... running the postal service ...does not mean you dont have a right to vote by mail.
I kinda understand a desire to avoid a mass shift to mail in voting.
For a few years I worked for a credit card company analyzing and investigating fraud and identity theft.
Hundreds of thousands of cases per year, every year, always growing, for the time I worked there.
At that time the (overwhelmingly) biggest contributor was family members (and caregivers) intercepting applications/bills (having stolen the card or numbers and used them for online/phone purchases and hiding/editing/misrepresenting the statement), intercepting new cards in the mail, or people filling out a credit card application with their family members info.
I can absolutely see "woke" teens or family members intercepting the mail to vote how they think their (grand)parents/family members "should."
I've had "convenience checks" intercepted (despite me telling the bank on multiple occasions to stop sending them) after I've moved out of a place (even having filled out a forwarding address slip in advance) and thousands of dollars charged.
I see on youtube a constant barrage of "porch pirates," or the delivery person themselves, stealing packages. I can absolutely see people feeling "justified" going around stealing mail in ballots from conservative, or poor, or left, or LGBTQ, or whatever undesirable to them, neighborhoods.
Or a delivery person taking "video confirmation" of delivery, but then just taking the envelop and throwing it away, or filling it out and sending it back.
Not to mention, I keep getting different neighbors mail. I've gotten one guys monthly supply of insulin 3 times this year. Some mail/package delivery drivers don't check the address. I think at best they just look at google maps and say "this must be the place, it's where the pin is."
I understand it's better to vote in by mail rather than not vote at all.
It's a "better than nothing" option.
But I also see that there is a huge potential for fraud if it's done on a mass scale. Just because fraud (not to mention misdelivery) via the mail is a huge (IMO/IME) problem already.
Other than the chance to bloviate a screed: " our voting rights are being stepped on by the GOP ... "
How exactly and specifically are voting rights actually being stepped on?
Are they actually being stepped on?
Or is it mostly headlines mongering fear about it?
All you've linked is a wikipedia article and the Voting Rights Act from 1965.
if you have any other ideas for voting... feel free ... to comment ...
Simply for my own entertainment, I like the idea of a lottery system. Like jury duty. Where there are no elections or voting. People (that are eligible via constitution eligibility requirements, and tested for drugs, alcohol, and competency) are randomly selected for an office every 2-6 years.