By Larry Craig

You will be hearing more calls for people to be able to vote by mail the closer we get to the November election. Coronavirus has taken over the news media (figuratively) and the public consciousness. For some, fear over having to vote in person in the fall seems to rule out going to the polls.

Is voting at home the right way to resolve this? No!

When we go to the polls, we don’t all gather on chairs around a table to cast our votes. We go to private voting booths to cast our ballots in secret. Nobody knows how we vote, and nobody can tell us how to vote or make us vote a certain way.

All that is lost if we vote at home. One person can make everybody vote the same way. Heck, one person can do all the voting.

When people vote at home, you have no idea who’s voting. It could be your neighbor who got your mail by mistake. That’s the single most important reason for not doing it — and the only one that’s really necessary.

On August 16, 2017, Investor’s Business Daily reported that there were 3.5 million more registered voters than live adults in the United States. If the nation goes to mail-in voting, as many are loudly advocating today, there will be 3.5 million ballots in existence with no rightful owner for them. It would be a shame for that many ballots to go to waste, right? Ever work in a print shop? There are almost always more copies than ordered. And if not, it’s not hard to make them.

While many businesses have been forced to close due to the virus, many businesses have been deemed essential and remain open. Voting is an essential business. If you can buy groceries, you can vote in person. We have six months to plan on any new safeguards like plexiglass for election officials.

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