If you're asking me a rhetorical question, you're asking the wrong person: I don't object to mail-in voting.
But, since you're asking someone who's also been a pollworker, and seen how my state and county run things, there is a *lot* of hysteresis (lag and path-dependence) in our voting systems: a fair amount of "foot dragging" may be due to the malice of Republican state legislators, but by no means all of it.
Both UT and WA have universal mail-in and no fraud. Why isn't that the new standard for states?
If you're asking me a rhetorical question, you're asking the wrong person: I don't object to mail-in voting.
But, since you're asking someone who's also been a pollworker, and seen how my state and county run things, there is a *lot* of hysteresis (lag and path-dependence) in our voting systems: a fair amount of "foot dragging" may be due to the malice of Republican state legislators, but by no means all of it.