Posted on 06/11/2020 11:02:12 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
During what was a rising pandemic, and amid concern regarding the potential spread of the coronavirus through the normal voting process, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered boards of elections throughout the state to afford every eligible voter the opportunity to vote by mail.
When the math was done, in order to accommodate just those voters who could partake in the special elections and party primaries coming up on June 23, the Erie County Board of Elections determined it would have to send 380,000 notices to voters offering them a chance to receive a mail-in ballot.
Once signed and returned, the voter would then receive back appropriate ballots for the races they could vote in.
"As of today we have over 100,000 returned by people requesting those ballots," said Republican Elections Commissioner Ralph Mohr, who noted that 25,000 additional requests came in through the Board of Elections website.
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For the past three weeks workers at the Board of Elections have been laboring up to 15 hours per day and even working on weekends to mail back the appropriate ballots to voters requesting them.
As thousands more arrive every day, they are being processed with the help of new machines purchased with COVID-19 funds, which are also being used to pay for overtime and postage.
Due to the sheer number of absentee ballots, and the fact that absentee ballots aren't counted until eight days after the elections, it is very likely that the results of some races will not be known on election night.
"The only exception would be if there's a blowout and the absentee amounts don't matter," said Zellner, who along with Mohr noted that absentee ballots usually align with the ballots cast at voting machines.
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Elections will now become open-ended. We'll never know when we should stop counting.
Should we wait another week (or two) to see if any more mail-in votes show up?
Should we count votes that come in late or were post marked after election day? You can be sure Democrats will insist we 'count every vote'.
We know when they’ll stop counting. When the Democrat wins.
All ballots will have a line on the bottom: “Printed in China for New Dawn, a Soros Company.”
We need to get this house under some sort of control!
We know when they’ll stop counting. When the Democrat wins.
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yep, per usual.
Dead link.
I live in Erie county and I didn’t get one...
This is spiraling out of control.
Checks and balances are being disregarded and ignored for the sake of 'increasing voter turnout'.
You're right. We need to get this under control before November or every election will be wide-open to fraud and raise questions about who really won.
How is that legal?
You need to contact the Board of Elections, and ask why you didn't get one. You don't want to show up on primary day, and not be able to vote because someone you don't know already voted by mail for you. I live in Oneida County and got one. Called the Board of Elections to make sure the polls would be open for in-person voting, and found they would be, so I tore the application up.
Only Dems and Indies get them. Registered Republicans can no longer vote, it's considered racist.
LOL!! My bad.
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