absentee ballot
Sat Sep 19 18:57:32 EDT 2020
My mail-in ballot arrived today. anniemal says they started mailing them out yesterday. I requested it on-line Aug 14. Aug 6 we each received pre-filled-out ballot-request forms from the "Center for Voter Information" with pre-paid return envelopes addressed to the county registrar. Annie says she mailed hers in a couple of weeks ago, and Brian mailed his in at some point.
Anna Radjou
They included an "I VOTED! - Arlington - ABSENTEE" sticker. I've been in the habit of displaying my sticker over my desk at work (possibly a reminder for others to vote on their ways home), but the office will be empty this year.
I suppose if you voted absentee and died before election day, your vote would probably still count. (Or does someone watch the police blotter and the obituaries, and pull out unopened ballots from the recently deceased?
Fri Oct 30 23:42:18 EDT 2020
If they want to be able to dropped deceased voters' ballots, they'd have to leave the ballots sealed until election day. They don't know which ballot is whose when they're being counted. Some states count them as they come in, some start counting them on election day, and some don't bother to count them unless there's enough ballots to possibly alter the outcome. (There's enough different offices and referenda on this ballot they'll probably have to count something. And at that point, the scanners can just count everything.)
It would be interesting to see a break-out of the in-person and absentee counts. Unfortunately, in some places that will just motivate selective tactics at future disenfranchisement. Although for this election Trump's trashing of the Postal Service will have greatly affected who's choosing to absentee vote.
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My mail-in ballot arrived today. anniemal says they started mailing them out yesterday. I requested it on-line Aug 14. Aug 6 we each received pre-filled-out ballot-request forms from the "Center for Voter Information" with pre-paid return envelopes addressed to the county registrar. Annie says she mailed hers in a couple of weeks ago, and Brian mailed his in at some point.
Anna Radjou
They included an "I VOTED! - Arlington - ABSENTEE" sticker. I've been in the habit of displaying my sticker over my desk at work (possibly a reminder for others to vote on their ways home), but the office will be empty this year.
I suppose if you voted absentee and died before election day, your vote would probably still count. (Or does someone watch the police blotter and the obituaries, and pull out unopened ballots from the recently deceased?
Fri Oct 30 23:42:18 EDT 2020
If they want to be able to dropped deceased voters' ballots, they'd have to leave the ballots sealed until election day. They don't know which ballot is whose when they're being counted. Some states count them as they come in, some start counting them on election day, and some don't bother to count them unless there's enough ballots to possibly alter the outcome. (There's enough different offices and referenda on this ballot they'll probably have to count something. And at that point, the scanners can just count everything.)
It would be interesting to see a break-out of the in-person and absentee counts. Unfortunately, in some places that will just motivate selective tactics at future disenfranchisement. Although for this election Trump's trashing of the Postal Service will have greatly affected who's choosing to absentee vote.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/1170782.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]