Voting by mail isn’t new. We’ve been doing it for generations. Absentee ballots were used by soldiers during the Civil War, and in World War II, ballots were sent to troops overseas. Some southern states objected back then — not because of logistics, but because those ballots included African-American soldiers. So it’s no surprise that restricting access to the ballot box is still a tactic used to keep certain groups from participating. In plain terms: limiting who can vote l