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There will no doubt be attempts in many states to discourage or curtail early voting this year. And in-person voting, especially by electronic (and no paper trail) methods, is no guarantee that votes will be more secure. In the 2004 election 100,000 electronic votes vanished. And we keep hearing about how electronic voting machines have notified the voter that they just voted for candidate "B" when they entered the vote for "A".
I suppose we could all go back to paper ballots ala the 1950's, 60's etc. But even then every once in a long while we read about a ballot box full of ballots were found from very old elections. I think the most recent one was when they were tearing down an old court house in Texas. 2 or 3 ballot boxes from the 1960 election was found in the basement. Those were never counted.
I suppose there is no fool proof way.