Posted on 09/08/2020 12:12:53 PM PDT by knighthawk
They have to put it on the outside of the envelope so the handlers know how to handle it.
But if they have already requested the ballots should they not be already sending them in? So why do we have to wait weeks if they make the deadline? There should be a deadline as to mail them in.
That depends on the state and how it is worded. This is NH:
“Absentee ballots delivered through the mail or by the voter’s delivery agent shall be received by the town, city, or ward clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on the day of the election.”
If it’s late it doesn’t count. Nothing about postmark. “Needs to be delivered by” only.
Town/City/Ward/Dist.........
Registration No..........
Party:...............
Voted in office or ballot taken (Check one)
Below that is bar code with numbers.
I wager that most cemeteries have requested lots of absentee ballots with a democratic party designation.
Wait until Democrats challenge it and the courts weigh in.
In about 20% of the states they can't begin counting the mail-in ballots until election day. In three states they can't begin counting them till the polls close. It's going to take a week or two to manually process those.
But the UK can count the Brexit votes in an evening.
But the UK can count the Brexit votes in an evening.
Absentee and mail-in are 2 different things, at least her in NC. Absentee has to be in by election day.
At least it used to ...Royboy may have changed that one too.
How many of those were mail in votes and when did they begin counting them?
The KBLM Agg Report predicts well above normal soil temperatures and strong indicators of a bountiful Fall Ballot Harvest the likes of which we haven’t seen since late 19th century Chicago, Boston, and NYC harvests.
I see thank you.
And given that even in a normal year, a LOT of absentee ballots are lost, never returned, or filled out improperly, the democrats urging their supporters to vote that way are shooting themselves in the foot, all to “get back at Trump”.
Every state SHOULD have a process for this, although I can’t see it working perfectly.
A person who has requested an absentee ballot, by sending a request, or doing so online, will have their name marked as “voted” in the poll book.
If your name is so marked, you should not be allowed to vote. If your name is NOT marked, it SHOULD mean that the state forgot to send you a ballot, or forgot to mark they did, and you can then vote.
If your name is not listed as requesting an absentee ballot, the absentee ballot SHOULD be rejected if it is received. THAT would prevent double-voting. Note the absentee ballot can be received after the election, so you need to stop a poll-vote once the request is made.
Now, if you show up on election day, and your name is marked in the poll book, you are SUPPOSED to be allowed to vote “provisionally”. If you do so, and say the reason is “didn’t mail in ballot”, then they are supposed to wait for the absentee ballots to be received, and if your name isn’t found, your provisional is accepted, if a ballot is accepted absentee, your provisional is rejected.
This should all be legal, hence Trump’s argument that you should show up at the polls and vote, just in case, is a good one — the system will stop you if you are not allowed, and you can vote provisionally which is always allowed.
But in Georgia, they found 1000 cases where poll workers went ahead and gave ballots to people whose names were marked off. Those people voted. And while they are now caught, and could be tried, you can’t take their poll-day vote away, or their absentee vote, because you don’t know which ones are theirs, because both are anonymous by the time they are counted.
If a democratic prosecutor refuses to provide jail time for anybody caught, and a gofundme is launched to pay their fines, you could essentially legalize the whole thing, people do it, and if they get caught, Soros pays a fine, essentially buying your extra votes.
Exactly! Hillary did that last time with early voting. It didn’t help her.
Millions. Over 170,000 were returned on time but not counted for administrative reasons. https://fullfact.org/europe/missing-eu-referendum-votes/
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