Just some can think of from the top of my head

• not everyone has transport / time
• getting it done earlier means you can’t forget or miss later
• safety: some ballot boxes have been set on fire
• it’s easier
• shame: some prefer to not show their face to go vote
• safety: a gathering would be a risk with people who have a shitty immune system or asthma

You can actually track mail in ballot, so if there is a failure, there would still be time to fix. It not like that the vote failed and people won’t know.

Because no matter how prepared I think I am, there’s always at least one item on the ballot I didn’t expect to see.

I can sit down at my computer and look up everything on my ballot and make better informed decisions in the comfort of my home. I can lean over and ask my spouses opinion on what they’re voting for and we can decide what we want to do. In the end we each make our own decision, but at least we can discuss it.

I have a QR code on my envelope that shows that I can track my ballot from end to end and ensure that it’s where it is supposed to be. If it never arrives, I can go vote in person and have a provisional ballot to ensure I didn’t vote twice.

Because you’re wrong there aren’t.

Because it forces you to be in a specific place at a specific time otherwise. I don’t even live in the state I’m registered to vote in.

Most important for me is being able to simply read the ballot and research candidates at my leisure. Not sure about failure points, my state has used mail voting for many years without issue and if Trump’s lackey makes ballots go missing I will know because I can track my ballot on the state’s website.

A really important point is some voting machines are ‘ballot marking devices’ which give you a human readable paper ballot with your choices (good) however the actual counting is done using a barcode or QR code (bad). There is never a good reason to prevent voters from verifying their ballot has their intended choices, yet some areas still insist on using these absurd machines.

All my ballots have been received and counted so far just fine. I’ll go to the polls if there is a problem but until that changes, I’m going with what’s convenient.