Oregon famously allows people to place their completed ballots in the mail for dispatch to the county elections office. It’s safe and it works.

If you want to be really super-rigorous about security, the platinum standard a small but determined group of Oregonians hold to is to take your completed ballot to the county clerk’s office and submit it there. Ballot security in that case is about as perfect as it gets.

The gold standard, which is very nearly as good, is to do what I do: Drop them in the nearest ballot box, which for significant numbers of people is within walking distance of their residence (as it is for me) or workplace. Ballots can be delivered to any official drop box by 8 p.m. on Election Day.”

The ballot box system is so sturdy and reliable that the best single improvement Oregon could make in it, would be to expand it.

Ballot drop boxes (outside of polling places) once were rare nationally but now are found across much of the country.…