I think it's time to severely limit absentee ballot voting

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9. I completely disagree - what Democrats need to do is to educate voters

If the voters in North Carolina had known the laws regarding their absentee ballots the scammers would not have been able to collect and possibly destroy so many ballots. Same for voters who are fooled by mailings from Republicans giving the wrong dates and locations for voting.

If voters were well educated about this most important duty of every American citizen the Republicans - or any other group interested in depressing or stealing votes - would not be able to get away with these crimes.

Every voter should know the laws about using the methods of voting available to them. I have not voted absentee in fifty years but I know better than to give my absentee ballot to anyone else, especially an unsealed, unsigned absentee ballot that is not complete. Apparently North Carolina voters are not universally aware that they should not do that if their vote is to count.

Local Democratic organizations should work with groups such as their local election officials, the League of Women Voters, the ACLU, and any other group interested in getting all citizens to vote. We should be teaching people how to vote, how to make sure their votes will be counted, and how to counter efforts to suppress and block voting.

Oregon has shown that an all mailing ballot program can work and can increase the percentage of voting. It is not the method that is at fault, it is the possibly planned ignorance about the method and the criminals taking advantage of that ignorance that is at fault.