> 3 million is not even a drop in the bucket when you add ballot counts in the other 49 states.

While that may be all good and true, that 3 million was the widest margin between winning the electoral college balloting vs losing the popular vote in any presidential race to date, which is not insignificant. The electoral college vote is all to easily fixed by gerrymandering. Popular votes, on the other hand, are fixed only by ballot manipulation which is why the Goofy Old Party is so fixated on preventing mail ballots, even when it is the one which has been caught in actively "ballot harvesting". It's afraid that it won't be able to "control" mail in voting because it counterbalances closing poling places to make it difficult for "the poor" to vote. Drive 200 miles to a poling place and stand in line for hours when you don't have a car and public transportation is all but non-existant? My My.

Voting in pivate, secret balloting, was developed in Victoria, Australia, in 1856, and has been known as the "Australian Ballot" ever since. It was widely adopted in the US after 1884 presidential election.