As a result, the number of ballots delivered to households where the voter no longer resides is minimized, and, more importantly, election officials are able to capture information on thousands of voters who have moved. Too often, people who move just keep going back to the same old polling place. The same technological safeguard would be prohibitively expensive to employ at 193 separate polling places on a single election day. The Oregon Success Story. Today the state of Oregon is on the cutting edge of reform, using vote by mail for all of its elections.
Polling places are a thing of the past.
Little wonder then that this state invariably ranks near the top in the nation in voter participation rate. It concluded that voting by mail is an obivous stage in the technological revolution. One day very soon we may all be voting on the Internet. Perhaps vote by mail is merely a transitional phase in democracy's technological revolution. In the meantime, let's adopt an effective remedy for low voter participation that exists here and now.