One of the hot-button issues thus far in the presidential election cycle has been the U.S. Postal Service and how it might be used to implement a so-called vote-by-mail system.

However, Dr. Alec Yasinsac, dean of the University of South Alabama’s School of Computing, who has studied vote-by-mail voting systems, argues you cannot guarantee the security of such a system.

During an interview with Mobile radio’s FM Talk 106.5, Yasinsac called claims from elected Democrats and members of the media that mail-in balloting was not susceptible to fraud “absolutely ridiculous.”

“That’s absolutely ridiculous,” he said. “There’s case after case after case of prosecuted cases of voter fraud. I’ll point you to an Alabama politician named Artur Davis, who was in the Democrat Party for years. And he came forward himself and said it was well known in his community how the vote fraud occurred, and how vote-by-mail fraud occurred, and how those things were carried out systemically within the parties of that time.”

“I don’t believe this is a partisan issue because Republicans commit vote fraud, as well,” Yasinsac continued. “The problem is, Sean, is that there is not a way to secure the communications in the vote-by-mail communications system. The mail system is inherently insecure. You put an envelope in a mailbox and what happens after that is undetermined. It’s unverifiable in most cases.”

@Jeff_Poor is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Alabama, the editor of Breitbart TV, a columnist for Mobile’s Lagniappe Weekly and host of Mobile’s “The Jeff Poor Show” from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. on FM Talk 106.5.