How? Both are mailed. I'm not tracking this one - and we do mail-ins and absentee ballots in AZ both (and voter ID - you can't get a ballot (mail-in or otherwise) unless you're registered) - the absentee ones are usually counted last - the mail-ins first (because we do early voting via mail). The worst being provisional ballots which are only counted in close races (provisional fraud is the most common if I'm not mistaken, in most states).

I'm a little foggy on the 'why' AZ does it that way (it's one of those research 'to-do' list items that I've yet to do) apart from the fact that our polling places are a bit tight for the population of the area and the fact we have a staggering amount of retirees who prefer mailing in early.

Both are kinda crappy - so I'm curious where he's coming from on this apart from the fact that anything involving mail is a platform for fraud and ballot harvesting. But how is one not as suck as the other?