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Mail voting already exists and works fine, despite the scenario you're positing. I live in Washington state where it seems to be the default.

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In person voting at the voting booth is without any doubt more secure. For something so important like voting I would only use the most secure option.

I live in a country with only voting at the voting booth and I am perfectly happy with it!

In addition to this, the fact that you are not aware of voting fraud does not mean it does not happen. That's why it's important to care about potential voting fraud.

Unfortunately, voting fraud occurs even with in-person voting at the voting booths. Here election observer committees are made up of representatives of the various parties, and there are reports of the deals that split the votes of people who did not show up at the voting booth.

There was a proposal to install cameras on the voting booths, but it was rejected by the high court.

Surprisingly e-voting can solve these low-tech corruption problems, but it introduces a much larger attack surface.

Voting fraud might occur in any way, but I think it's quite obvious that from this point of view voting booths are better than mail voting.

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