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I think mail in ballots are a great idea but I have one very large concern with it. How does a voter know if his ballot is ever actually received and/or counted? It seems like it would be extremely difficult to tell if large numbers of ballots go missing - the voter assumes it was received and the government assumes that there is low turnout. I think that there should be something available like certified mail that registers the receipt of the ballot so that each voter would have proof that his/her ballot was indeed received at the election center. It seems like scanners for this could be easily set up if work was done in conjunction with the US postal service.

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