Election 2026 #4
1Do You Vote By Mail?
2If your answer to the the question posed by the above header is, “Yes”, you have a lot of company. Mail-n voting has tripled over over the past 20 years. It seems likely that some of the increase is the result of small increases in longevity in the United States.[1]
The COVID-19 pandemic created a dramatic increase in the use … and popularity … of mail-in voting. Use of the COVID vaccines did not receive emergency authorization until December 2020. To protect public health, many states began to provide unrestricted voting by mail{2] for the 2020 election.
In 2024, 37 states have unrestricted mail-in voting. The remaining 13 have restricted mail-in voting. Only 3 had restricted mail-in voting and no early in-person voting. In those states, if you don’t have a state-approved reason for needing to vote by mail (e.g., military, physical disability, etc,), you are required to vote at the polls on election day,
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Even President Trump votes by mail. As we shall see, taking advantage of mail-in voting is a bit hypocritical on his part.
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The primary difference between restricted and unrestricted mail-in voting centers on who is permitted to use a mail ballot.
- Unrestricted mail-in voting allows any eligible, registered voter to request and cast a ballot by mail without providing a reason. In some jurisdictions, election officials automatically mail ballots to all registered voters by default.
- Restricted mail-in voting limits mail-in ballots to voters who meet strict eligibility criteria. Voters typically must provide a state-approved reason—such as an illness, physical disability, military deployment, or documented travel out of the area on Election Day—to legally qualify for a mail ballot.
(For what it’s worth, the above definition is a direct copy of Google AI’s response to my question, “What is the difference between restricted and unrestricted mail-in voting?” Artificial Intelligence isn’t all bad. Like atomic energy, it requires regulation defining limits and use. As for the data centers needed for AI (and other processer-hungry applications. If we can launch a telescope into the Sun-Earth Lagrange point, we can launch a series of inter-connected data centers into high, uncrowded orbits, The can be powered by solar energy not restricted by an atmosphere ,,, and, if they get too warm, we can just open a window. 😉)
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