Key Types of Ballots (and Some Basic Mail-In Voting Basics)

11/12/2020 | Brian Griffin

[Brian Griffin]

Commercial printer-made blanks [office-held]

Office-made blanks [office-retained]

Return-to-sender blanks [office-held, USPS legitimate stream, letter carrier illegitimately-held, voted]

Other undelivered [relative-held, roommate-held, landlord-held, common area, mailbox-retained, letter carrier illegitimately-held, trash, voted]

Recycle stream blanks [bin-held, pilferer-held, truck-held, sort facility-held, bounty hunter-held, bounty payer-held, trash, future paper, voted]

Mail standard [office-counted, office-pending]

Mail "provisional" [office-counted, office-pending]

Mail untimely [office-counted, office-pending]

In-person advance voted standard

In-person advance voted "provisional"

In-person election day voted standard

In-person election day voted "provisional"

Voided ["unscannable", office error, voter error trade-ins, mail-to-in-person trade-ins]

Replacements for "unscannable" ones

Repeatedly counted

Counterfeits

There are obviously a lot of places where fraud can take place, sometimes on a large scale. I will try to revise this post in the next few days to go into detail.

Most ballots would be mailed out on a presort basis, which I believe have no postal bar codes attached.

Mailed back ballots might have postal bar codes. These bar codes have limited information, such as a large scale mailer ID, a serial number of 6 to 9 digits and a 5 or nine digit zip code. I have no idea how much of bar code based information is retained by the United States Postal Service.

https://tensionenvelope.com/blogs/how-read-intelligent-mail-barcode-imb
https://postalpro.usps.com/service-type-identifiers/stidtable

Mailed back ballots probably often use business reply mail for each envelope. Since big money is involved with business reply mail, careful records are probably maintained by authorized users and the Postal Service, probably in electronic form. The ballot envelopes arriving on any given day would have to be counted, probably at least by the Postal Service.

The Pennsylvania mail-in voting basic information page:
https://www.votespa.com/Voting-in-PA/Pages/Mail-and-Absentee-Ballot.aspx

"Your Mail-in or Absentee Ballot status can be tracked by completing the fields below. You cannot use the tracker to track the status of a ballot voted in person on Election Day."

"First Name (as it appeared on your application)
"Last Name (as it appeared on your application)
"Date of Birth (mm/dd/yyyy)
"County"

https://www.pavoterservices.pa.gov/Pages/BallotTracking.aspx

[Yo-Yo]

(and Some Basic Mail-In Voting Basics)

Thank you very much. However, I was hoping for some Advanced Mail-In Voting Basics.

[rolling_stone]

thanks