Reducing polling places and drop boxes, on the surface, seem to be a terrible thing but who maintains them and secures them? There used to be a term, ballot box stuffing. Has it gone out of fashion so much so that we can trust that it will not rear its ugly head again? It was quite successful in LBJ's first run for the Senate, but that's history and we can agree on that. After all, it took place 70+ years ago. It couldn't happen again, could it? Black activists wouldn't be outside polling places displaying batons again as they did in the far off Obama administration, would they. (Obama's self described wingman, the AG, said that it wasn't a big deal since that happened in reverse all the time in the bad cold days in the South.) Georgia's still in the South, I think.

Longer hours and mail in ballots certainly have an attraction. Who could resist giving voters unlimited opportunities to exercise their constitutional obligation, sorry I meant right, but doesn't that obligation carry with it an obligation to be informed of the developments in the races at hand? Let's take the 2016 presidential race. Anyone who voted before Comey dropped his pre-election bombshell voted with incomplete information. Anyone who voted before Comey retracted his bombshell a week later, again voted with incomplete information. Democrats complained loudly that the initial bombshell cost Hillary the election. Still, they are in complete agreement that the earlier the voting, the better. 

Everybody Ikes to toss around the word "existential". Here's my one time use of that overworked word. I think that uninformed and/or intimidated voters are an existential threat to our democracy.