Five years ago I might have been less nervous about this sort of thing, but we've already seen people be fired for having a Kerry bumper sticker, we know some employers pressure employees to donate to the candidate of the employer's choice. Just how far-fetched is it, really, to think certain employers might insist on actually seeing your ballot before you send it in?
I'm not sure what to do about this problem, but I do worry about the integrity of our vote being destroyed by this supposed plan to make voting more accessible for more people. I'm virtually certain that if it comes to be taken for granted that people will be filling out their own ballots at the lieisure in unmonitored environments, employers who are on-sides with the royalists will begin to incorporate vote-fixing into their regular office routines.
And after the last four years, I think you'd have to be an idiot to find that prediction paranoid.
Besides, it would be easy enough for an employee to cheat, say by marking his/her ballot the employer's way, showing it to collect the "reward," then either applying for a replacement ballot or simply correcting the original with white-out.
I suppose an employer could go so far as to require the employee to show a video showing the ballot, then showing the employee putting the ballot into the envelope, sealing it, and mailing it. But this would make compliance so difficult such an employer would be ratted out in no time.
