“What I’d like to know is, how do they know they’re ‘not attached to anybody’? What does that mean?”
One reason would be that there are more ballots than there are envelopes. The envelopes are actually affidavits, and are signed and show a proper physical address. If 25,000 legitimate (signed with proper physical address) envelope affidavit envelopes exist, and 30,000 ballots exist, then 5,000 ballots aren’t attached to anybody. They were (secretly) inserted into batches for counting, but a voter didn’t fill them out or return them.
There may be other things, too, but this is what I recall from running elections years ago.
Ok, that would make sense. I’ve never voted by mail in any capacity so I’m not too familiar with the process.
Hopefully we’ll find out more details on Friday.
That makes sense mm. Without an envelope, they’re not attached to a person or address, and they obviously don’t have an envelope that they were never folded. There’s only one explanation for all that.