Neither is reliable and both subject voters to our inevitable fraudulent results.

"Screwing up Oregon's vote-by-mail system" will be the proverbial silver lining if the PO does end Saturday delivery. Maybe this will finally be the impetus to go back to the rational system we had before, whereby anyone who WANTS to vote absentee can request a mail ballot -- without having to state a reason -- but the default option is voting in person at a properly supervised polling place.

I've never mailed a ballot unless I was deployed at the time. I always take it to the election office in Oregon City. I miss the old way of voting.

And Saturday mail delivery is stupid. One to three days per week delivery would be fine by me. I throw most of the stuff away anyhow.

Don't they always tell us if you wait until the Saturday before the (Tuesday) election to mail your ballot there is no guarantee it will be received in time?

On the issue of mail vs. drop, I think I'm like most folks. I've dropped mine off once or twice, but usually I mail it in. It is a little shocking to discover that half of the ballots are dropped off by people.

I wonder how many ballots are dropped off by the people who cast them?

Are there a lot of people handing over their ballots to some volunteer activist (cough-busproject-cough who shows up at their door to cheerfully hector them about not voting?

I've always heard stories of political operatives carrying boxes of ballot envelopes to the election offices, but I never though it might be so prevalent.