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Last week, President Donald Trump announced that he wanted to fundamentally change the way Americans vote. He wants to prohibit absentee ballots, mail ballots, early in-person voting, and the use of voting machines. He wants all voting to take place on Election Day and all ballots to be paper ballots. He claims that such changes will make elections more honest by preventing voter fraud. This is an extraordinarily dubious claim.

Indeed, moving to paper ballots is likely to increase voter fraud. The classic American phrase “Stuffing the ballot box” comes from the age of paper ballots, when voters put a ballot into a box. It was often simple and easy to put in a se

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