�IR冷知識🇺🇸】純技術探討：�如大�模郵寄�票出�在香港

Which era do you live in? Postal vote is very common, I had an American colleague who voted for Hilary Clinton back in 2008 when she worked in Republic of Ireland. I myself always use postal vote. Postal vote (and in the future digital vote) has been going on for years, why questioning it now? Because you don't like the results (which to be honest isn't that great for Democrats anyway). Claiming you fight for democracy but turn against the system when the results do not suit you? Democracy is not just a ballot paper, it relies on active participation of educated public. The US has just shown us how miserably it can fail.

Christie Leung

真的沒有留�到郵�投郵其實真的很有�題�尤其是在�密�防止種票方���� 香港的話⋯諗起都�怖��人院�中資公�⋯⋯

Joey

Thru all this, I found that I'm very tolerant of the sometimes slow and cumbersome process because I do trust the system. As cliche as it sounds, democracy is messy because you don't just blindly let one person dictate everything. Checks and balances are messy. But people's trust in the system makes them patient and tolerant of this messiness.

kate

To give a local data point: I'm an overseas Clark County, Nevada voter. 1) Any US citizen from anywhere in the world can vote thru mail ballot. Therefore the early proposal from HK govt to give special voting avenue for HKers living in Greater Bay Area makes no sense. Either all or no overseas. 2) Some states like Nevada already accept email ballot. But definitely not a perfect process: a) Nevada supposedly sent a mail ballot this year to everyone. I never received one even though I checked my overseas address many times. b) It took me filling in 3 online forms/ emails to finally get a response from someone about getting my ballot. c) The process is very manual - I actually emailed back and forth with someone at the local county 2-3 times before I finally received my electronic ballot. I still need to fill it in, print it out, sign it manually, scan it, and email it back! d) Privacy - because I chose email, I had to sign away my rights to anonymous vote.

kate

投比�TRUMP

Yu Yu

我覺得一旦郵寄�票�多時，會出�原則性�系統性�題，但�州都沒有處�，到當日也處��好。 你們既解釋就�08年雷曼倒閉�，�一個人都話CDS沒有�題。�題�點是你們沒有考慮�大�多的情�下，�能發生的事。

12345

�下�能政府�會話內地地大物�，而且大部分�民係�人家行動唔方便，方便佢地整個郵�投票出來，你懂的。��就算無郵�投票，�能�舉日�個城市一日�，車曬d�民去城市食完後投票，之後大家識�。

拜登�目�施政主張都模糊，美國�民�能�是投票給他，是投票給民主黨�

Chan Wai Bun

若如 張崑陽 帖�以「行政效率�所致而��化了，相信將�會有任何修正和改善。 �明白為何�去堵塞，�能確��票的�法性，�舉�有什麼��? 明白特朗普為何�� 郵寄投票， 此舉是�障所有候�人。

miuying yu

如果俾人由大陸郵寄投票，仲多左個好處- 唔會俾內地人見到香港人有�舉

katrina

特朗普在末��已經話defund postal service。 經國會委員會討論，郵政局�正�以處�所有�票。之於特朗普�七點後郵寄�票作廢。但�年四月�五郵寄交稅，亦以郵戳日期為準。所以���輯

Eric lin

特朗普話佢多次講�郵寄有�題，�以拿出來分�一下呢？

12345

Prof Shen, thank you for your always excellent writing, I do feel your kindness and your own intellectual humbleness and nuance may not serve some subsets of your readers well. It is indeed true that since voting is handled by states, there has been issues for as long as people can remember. But as it relates to absentee/mail in ballots, there is just no empirical evidence to support any type of the "theories" that's out there in the US. in fact as you know, Oregon is entirely vote by mail and has been for some time. I think your point is especially important in how politically aware the general population is, the shenanigans that can and have happened in HK is not translatable to US as far as we have evidence for thus far. Since even other opinion journalists rely on your analysis, this is something that may dismay a lot of your readers but would be critically important in the conversation. Just my thoughts.

Wis

(新)香港

Tak Wong

以後中xx�需��統籌�票,二三佰�郵寄票�輕易全�立法會七�度。雷廷動原黃�作用也�大。

CCT Lai

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