Before getting into the problems associated with mail-in ballots, let's address a basic issue of thought.  The issue has to do with the old idea that "you can't prove a negative."  Anyone who's spent any time in "higher education" is apt to have heard that old truism.  But is it true? This kid would have to say it depends on the negative.  If a negative statement is big or broad enough, it may indeed be unprovable.  Consider this statement from Woody Allen's 1980 dramedy Stardust Memories: "I can prove that if there's life anywhere else in the universe, they will have a Marxist economy." That's not a negative statement.  But proving it is out of the question, as is proving its negation (i.e., they will not have a Marxist economy).  We haven't even established a colony on the Moon, so we can't very well check out the entire universe for Marxist...(Read Full Article)