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College students can't send in absentee ballots because they don't know where to buy stamps [tr]
Business Insider ^ | 9/19/18 | Ashley Collman

Posted on 09/22/2018 2:43:45 PM PDT by Huntress

Democrats are counting on Generation Z, many of whom recently gained the right to vote, to help turn Congress blue in the midterm elections.

But 49 cents may be all it takes to keep these post-Millennials from exercising their civic duty.

On Tuesday, a Fairfax County, Virginia official said they are noticing a disturbing trend: young people failing to mail in their absentee ballots because they don't know how to get a stamp.

Lisa Connors, of the Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs, ran a focus group this summer comprised of colleges students interning in various county departments.

"One thing that came up, which I had heard from my own kids but I thought they were just nerdy, was that the students will go through the process of applying for a mail-in absentee ballot, they will fill out the ballot, and then, they don't know where to get stamps," Connors told WTOP. "That seems to be like a hump that they can't get across."

Connors went on to say that many in the focus group said "they knew lots of people who did not send in their ballots because it was too much of a hassle or they didn't know where to get a stamp."

"Across the board, they were all nodding and had a very spirited conversation about 'Oh yeah, I know so many people who didn't send theirs in because they didn't have a stamp,'" Connors said.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: absentee; absenteeballots; ballot; ballots; postedseveraltimes; stamp; stamps; stupidity
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To: SkyDancer
I call nonsense on it - they’ve never heard of a post office or where one is?

I'll bet it would not take much effort to find 30-year olds who have never mailed anything. They've never been to the post office. They've never purchased a stamp.

21 posted on 09/22/2018 3:22:48 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Huntress

If they’re too stupid to know how to use stamps, I’d rather they didn’t vote.


22 posted on 09/22/2018 3:34:41 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: null and void

You can order stamps by mail at www.usps.com.


23 posted on 09/22/2018 3:35:22 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Huntress

I just put a note in my mail box.

I once forgot to put a check with it and she left me a book anyway along with a note.

Can also get them at the supermarket.


24 posted on 09/22/2018 3:37:01 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: Huntress

I don’t know how it is in other places but here in Florida you can usually buy postage stamps at Publix if you can’t make it to the post office.


25 posted on 09/22/2018 3:39:23 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Huntress

Then they are too dumb to vote. A self-solving situation.


26 posted on 09/22/2018 3:46:41 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Huntress

It’s called a post office.


27 posted on 09/22/2018 4:03:43 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: SkyDancer

If they get to the post office after the desk closes, they’re out of luck...no stamp machines in the lobby. I’ve directed people looking for stamps to the nearest grocery store on a few occasions.


28 posted on 09/22/2018 4:06:00 PM PDT by Overtaxed (Very sporting of the little black duck.)
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To: Drew68

Where I live (when not on the road/flying) our PO is the meeting place when folks come into town to collect their mail since lots of places don’t have mail delivery to their houses.


29 posted on 09/22/2018 4:15:43 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Huntress

Diversity may not be a strength after all.


30 posted on 09/22/2018 4:26:13 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: lastchance

That company needs to change its name.


31 posted on 09/22/2018 4:27:08 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: Huntress

“Stupidity Is Our Strength!”


32 posted on 09/22/2018 4:40:51 PM PDT by Gritty (This is what the other side is all about. Hate and bullshit is their political platform.-DJ Trump Jr)
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To: Huntress

And wouldn’t you think a writer with this publication would know that postage is no longer $0.49? I thought it was and went to buy a roll of 100 stamps the other day and the gal asked for $50.00....I asked her when the rate went up and she said the first of the year. She was offended that I didn’t know! Ooops - sorry lady!


33 posted on 09/22/2018 4:47:45 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Huntress

Bogus article. Here in NH the students do this every year. They send home absentee ballots and vote here in our elections. These kids are very organized and if you think they don’t know where to buy stamps..... the author is trying to redirect.


34 posted on 09/22/2018 4:48:13 PM PDT by lucky american (Progressives are attac Iking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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To: Drew68

“”Who buys stamps in 2018?””

Who wouldn’t unless they don’t send thank you notes or greeting cards or Christmas cards?


35 posted on 09/22/2018 4:51:47 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Huntress

You got that right.

Buuut..... those kind of people probably don’t vote like we do....

Maybe this is just another one of those articles meant to inspire panic and get the youth(leftist)vote out.


36 posted on 09/22/2018 4:51:56 PM PDT by Califreak (Take Me Back To Constantinople)
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To: max americana

I know degreed individuals who don’t even have the sense God gave a turnip.


37 posted on 09/22/2018 4:53:06 PM PDT by Califreak (Take Me Back To Constantinople)
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To: Huntress
I don't buy this for a minute because a simple Google search "How to buy a stamp" turns up millions of instant results including options to buy them online.
38 posted on 09/22/2018 4:56:38 PM PDT by SamAdams76 ( If you are offended by what I have to say here then you can blame your parents for raising a wuss)
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To: Huntress

Gosh and they are sooooo much smarter than old me...

How come I know where to go for stamps ???


39 posted on 09/22/2018 5:00:23 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Drew68

Supermarkets sell them. I rarely buy - at the post office for my tax return and that sort of thing.

Specifically in Fairfax:

Office Depot, Walmart, CVS, Whole Foods, Giant, Safeway, Shoppers Food Warehouse, Staples, and actual post offices.


40 posted on 09/22/2018 5:09:50 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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