Absentee ballot fraud via “harvesting” is easier to catch than electronic election fraud bc:

It does not involve proprietary software.

It can impact a large swath of a county or state only if many people help, increasing the risk of detection. 1/ https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-nc-election-fraud-charge-20190227-story.html">https://www.latimes.com/nation/la...

2/ But w/ electronic election fraud, a single insider or hacker can wreak havoc due to the centralization at the country & state level of tabulators (that aggregate precinct totals) & of the computers that provide the programming 4 all voting machines. https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/11/05/voting-machines-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/">https://www.nybooks.com/daily/201...

3/ Moreover, electronic election fraud involves proprietary software, which means that no one can examine it even when votes magically appear, disappear, or flip from one candidate to the other at the last second.

4/ And for the most part, the US doesn’t conduct meaningful manual audits or recounts with a secure and transparent chain of custody.

5/ In short, ballot harvesting, while a real concern, is hardly our biggest problem. That the GOP has latched onto it as a reason to shun vote by mail—when it was the GOP that was caught ballot harvesting—is a sham excuse.

6/ In reality, some Republicans hate vote by mail because it makes it easier to vote. Yes, they would rather voters die than make their voices heard this election.