...Other benefits Bradbury listed: protection from fraud by verifying the signature of every voter, an automatic paper
trail that makes recounts possible, easily updated voter rolls (because the post office does not forward ballots), election
costs 30 percent lower than polling-place elections and better control of ballot handling and counting.
Academic studies concur. A 2003 survey by the University of Oregon found nearly a third of the
respondents said they voted more frequently with vote by mail. That especially was true for women, the disabled, homemakers
and people aged 26-38.
The possibility of fraud is often raised as a concern about all-mail voting, but a June report
from Reed College in Oregon reported "hybrid" systems, such as Arizona has, present more ballot integrity problems.
That's because officials have to run two separate election processes at the same time
A third study, reported in the journal Political Behavior, found that all-mail elections are especially
effective in local elections or primaries, in which turnout normally is low.
A number of Arizona communities have used vote by mail for some elections, including Oro Valley.
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