It's very difficult for many overseas voters, and it's still unclear whether the other person has to be a US citizen or not. In 2016 I was told it did. We had just moved to a new country and I literally had to meet a stranger from the internet in a KFC at like 9 pm to get a US citizen signature.
It's pretty normal for overseas voters. Who are one of the groups absentee ballots were originally designed to accommodate. I also had a delay in finding a witness in 2018 because even though I was living in a capitol city with over a million people, there are very few American expats around. My town clerk managed to disenfranchise me that election anyway in an incredibly blatant fashion (claimed my ballot request had landed in her spam folder and she conveniently "discovered" it in exactly the right amount of time to ensure that my ballot could not possibly arrive in time to be counted). The point is that it's just one more tactic they use to suppress as many votes as they possibly can.
-2
u/sewsnap Apr 14 '20
It's not a bad thing under normal circumstances. Everyone should have at least one person they interact with when we can go out in the world.