Last week’s Question of the Week asked whether Helena should switch to a mail-in ballot for city elections, as has been suggested by local election officials. Readers were split on the issue, with a slight majority against the idea.

Among 327 responses to this unscientific poll, 169 opposed voting by mail, while 158 favored the proposal.

Some readers’ comments:

n Please do not switch to mail-in ballots for city elections. It would provide too many opportunities for fraud. Comparing signatures would not solve validity; many people could forge a signature with perfection. The dead would rise again, not only in Butte but elsewhere, too. There are some things worth paying for. Elections are one of them.

n Yes. It would be a real time saver and it would encourage everybody to participate in the election process if we streamlined the voting procedure.

n Does it really matter? With voter turnout at the polls being nearly in the basement already, I doubt voting by mail will increase the percentage of people who vote, so why waste money on a program which may not increase voter participation?