Talk:Postal voting

message: Does the article need a description on how postal voting actually works? I could describe the Swiss procedures, where hardly anyone goes to the polling station... (but voter participation is as low as 25-40%, although). Regards, --Keimzelle 12:23, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article and vote-by-mail (which is what postal voting is called in Oregon) are on the same subject. We should merge them into one article.--Clipdude 18:02, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  We should merge with [[vote-by-mail]] 

message: This page is grossly incorrect.  I voted by post in NC in the last two Presidential elections. The page should be updated or deleted, it's probably a decade out-of-date.  It the worst Wikipedia page I have ever seen.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.67.6.14 (talk) 17:03, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Many US states now allow postal voting 

message: Sorry, absentee balloting is not synonymous with voting by mail. Absentee balloting is not necessarily done by mail. It can be done in person or remotely via the internet. On the other hand, voting by mail can be "early voting" and not absentee at all. If you want to elaborate on both articles to greater show the differences, I encourage that. - Electiontechnology 03:44, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Nope

message: The above exchange seems strange - I'm wondering if a move/rename occurred after Electiontechnology's comment. Seems to me that there are three similar phrases:
* postal voting
* vote-by-mail
* absentee ballotting
The first two are synonymous and have been merged, correctly. Right? The third seems to be a separate subject. -Pete 23:32, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I'm confused 

message: The claim that mail-in balloting in Oregon has produced higher voter turnout is not supported by the citation, which links to an opinion piece written by Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury published in the Washington Post.
Please see a summary of research conducted by Curtis Gans of American University's Committee for the Study of the American Electorate online at http://www.american.edu/ia/cfer/research/csae_09132004.pdf and note this finding (p. 4):
"The evidence is that all-mail balloting in Oregon has not helped and probably hurt turnout and for perhaps the same reason — diffusion of mobilization."
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Damn_Sexy (talk • contribs) 21:35, 15 November 2006.
:I have removed the phrase ", and increased voter turn-out" since it is not supported by the citation. See my preceding comments. Damn Sexy 19:04, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The claim in the article "There is some evidence that this method of voting leads to higher turnout than one where people vote in person or have to apply for a postal vote" has no citation. If anyone knows of any evidence to back up this claim, please provide it in the form of a citation. Damn Sexy (talk) 20:38, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
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thread_title: Turnout

message: I find it quite arbitrary to include Switzerland and no other European country. Switzerland is neither very big nor of any special importance to English speaking people. There are many European countries where postal votes have been used for many years. Germany is one of them (since 1957, "Briefwahl" in German), used for all kinds of elections. --77.181.251.136 (talk) 08:36, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Switzerland 

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message: Please add:
"An exhaustive investigative journalism analysis of all known voter fraud cases nationwide identified only 491 cases of absentee ballot fraud from 2000 to 2012. 491 in literally billions of votes cast. Ref.: Analysis: The False Narrative of Vote-by-Mail Fraud 
and 
*"The rate of ballot fraud: somewhere between 0.00004% and 0.0009%" Ref.:  
Cheers. --93.211.223.218 (talk) 16:34, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Literally .  Besides the soul-crushing use of "literally", it's not clear what changes you want to make (specifically where this should be added).  More importantly, the sources are muddling these figures, and it's not clear exactly what was measured.  I don't think this can be used.  –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 17:20, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 31 August 2020 - Analysis for USA

message: I would suggest to add a section explaining how fraud can happen in postal voting :
link : https://nypost.com/2020/08/29/political-insider-explains-voter-fraud-with-mail-in-ballots/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:2788:766:1AA4:A999:6DB9:4E64:5FF5 (talk) 21:39, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion : add a section about fraud in postal voting 

message: Talk:Postal voting in the United States#Split 2020 election section to new article. --David Tornheim (talk) 22:22, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relevant split discussion 

message: I think Poland is categorized wrongly. There is postal voting, but not for all people. I found this: https://sip.lex.pl/akty-prawne/dzu-dziennik-ustaw/kodeks-wyborczy-17679859/dz-1-roz-6-a - it is enabled for people with disabilities / in quarantine / over 60 years old. Asfanwald (talk) 09:20, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Poland?

message: Opinions, please: Is https://elections.maryland.gov/elections/2022/general_results/county_status_page_root.html a reliable source for claiming MIB is an abbreviation for mail-in ballot, and is that tidbit notable enough to include in this article in order to satisfy the Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Disambiguation_pages#Items_appearing_within_other_articles guideline? (i'm more confident that EV for Early Voting and EN for Election Night are uncommon abbreviations the webpage only uses to condense the chart, rather than items we should add to those disambiguation/pages.)
i apologize if this topic appears more than once; twice, i have used the "Publish" link and gotten a pop-up notification saying "New topic added" or whatever, and yet my topic was not on the page or in the page's edit history. Maybe i'm an unnamed user from an IP address and therefore not allowed to post links to sites besides Wikipedia and Wiktionary?
--173.67.42.107 (talk) 05:42, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: [[mail-in ballot]] on [[MIB (disambiguation)]]?

message: In the first section of the article there is this: "Coordinated, large-scale fraud by postal voting is likely hard to pull off undetected because the large number of interested parties"
Does anyone else think that "pull off" is too vernacular? I think something like "achieve" or "successfully commit" would be better. 73.240.55.117 (talk) 00:04, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Pull off"