No, Virginia, it's not a conspiracy *theory*....
(I know, I know, I said I was off the 'Net. I'm posting this and then I'm gone again.)
I posted a PSA about voters being disenfranchised (and potentially having their votes stolen) by mail-in forms that they didn't find out about until they went to the polls. I'm sure some of the folks who read this went, 'Yeah, sure, Rhi's imagining conspiracy theories.'
Someone sent in a voter registration form for my husband.
Someone who lives on one number different and a Drive, not Court, but who, interestingly enough, has the same name and listed his *work number* as their home number.
We didn't send this form. *I* got my voter registration card a couple weeks ago. He's got a temporary one *now*, but we almost left with the wrong one. He came out with a form, looking puzzled, and said, "They changed it on August 6. I don't know why they told me I wasn't in the system when I emailed to confirm...." We had pulled out and started driving away when I said, "Dragon? This has you voting at a different site than I am; that's not right."
Until he went in (again) to get it corrected, we thought it was just the clerk misreading his admittedly far-from-perfect handwriting.
She wasn't. That was the address already entered into the system, from a form received almost two months ago. And his handwriting's hard to read, but not that hard, and certainly not when he's printing.
No, as a matter of fact I'm not amused. I just thought I'd mention this to anyone who thinks that voter fraud is a conspiracy, or doesn't really happen anymore...? Apparently, it still does.
(I didn't let it screw up my blood pressure for my physical this afternoon. It's not going to stop us from voting. But I'm still furious.)
I posted a PSA about voters being disenfranchised (and potentially having their votes stolen) by mail-in forms that they didn't find out about until they went to the polls. I'm sure some of the folks who read this went, 'Yeah, sure, Rhi's imagining conspiracy theories.'
Someone sent in a voter registration form for my husband.
Someone who lives on one number different and a Drive, not Court, but who, interestingly enough, has the same name and listed his *work number* as their home number.
We didn't send this form. *I* got my voter registration card a couple weeks ago. He's got a temporary one *now*, but we almost left with the wrong one. He came out with a form, looking puzzled, and said, "They changed it on August 6. I don't know why they told me I wasn't in the system when I emailed to confirm...." We had pulled out and started driving away when I said, "Dragon? This has you voting at a different site than I am; that's not right."
Until he went in (again) to get it corrected, we thought it was just the clerk misreading his admittedly far-from-perfect handwriting.
She wasn't. That was the address already entered into the system, from a form received almost two months ago. And his handwriting's hard to read, but not that hard, and certainly not when he's printing.
No, as a matter of fact I'm not amused. I just thought I'd mention this to anyone who thinks that voter fraud is a conspiracy, or doesn't really happen anymore...? Apparently, it still does.
(I didn't let it screw up my blood pressure for my physical this afternoon. It's not going to stop us from voting. But I'm still furious.)