Posted on 08/06/2020 11:48:46 AM PDT by sevinufnine
A nonprofit group that encourages voter participation mailed confusing absentee ballot applications to Roanoke Valley residents that included the wrong return address for local election offices. Earlier this week, many residents in Roanoke, Roanoke County and Franklin County received applications for absentee ballots from the Center for Voter Information, a Washington, D.C.-based group that provides information about candidates and elections. The pre-filled applications for ballots are legitimate, but the addresses on return envelopes are wrong.
Roanoke residents received pre-addressed return envelopes for the Roanoke County registrar’s office, and county residents received return envelopes addressed to the city’s registrar. The mistake created confusion for voters and caused a massive headache for the city and county registrars, who spent much of Wednesday and Thursday answering calls from voters demanding to know if the mailers were part of an election fraud.
“It’s mass confusion,” said Andrew Cochran, the city's registrar. “People didn’t request it, it’s just a mass communication. … But the application is perfectly valid.”
(Excerpt) Read more at roanoke.com ...
“We’re all on the same page,” he said.
Residents who received the pre-filled applications can cross out the incorrect address and write the proper address, or they can drop off the applications at the registrars’ offices in person, Cochran said.
Virginians can vote in any one of three ways this November: in person on Election Day at the proper precinct, early at the registrar’s office from Sept. 18 to Oct. 31, or absentee by mail. Virginia does not require a reason to vote absentee. Voters do not need to make appointments with registrars to vote early, but social distancing and facial coverings are required.
Other Virginia localities also received wrong return envelopes from the Center for Voter Information. Some Franklin County voters received envelopes addressed to the city of Franklin, located in the eastern part of the state.
Franklin County Registrar Kay Chitwood said her office has been fielding calls from registered voters about the mailings.
“I think their intention was good,” Chitwood said of the mailings. “It was an error on the vote center.”
Chitwood said she’s been in contact with the Franklin registrar and has agreed to forward any vote-by-mail applications her office receives in error to the registrar there. In turn, that registrar has pledged to do the same for Franklin County voters.
One of the biggest switched-address blunders involved the city of Fairfax and Fairfax County, the most populated county in the commonwealth. Voters in Fairfax received return envelopes addressed to the county registrar’s office, and Fairfax County voters received envelopes addressed to the city office.
In a statement emailed to The Roanoke Times, the Center for Voter Information said that it will work with local officials to correct the mistakes.
“We are aware that some of the mailers may have directed the return envelopes to the wrong election offices, particularly in the Fairfax area of northern Virginia,” the statement read. “Please rest assured that we are working with local election officials to re-direct the Vote By Mail applications to the proper locations, and will rectify any errors at our own expense.”
The error has compounded what has already been a difficult election year for local registrars, who are seeing more applications for absentee ballots during the COVID-19 pandemic and are in need of more volunteers because many poll workers are older and might not be available to work while the virus still spreads.
Roanoke’s registrar’s office has received more than 4,000 absentee applications, Cochran said, a 10-fold increase from the same point in 2016.
Roanoke will also have a long ballot this year that will include presidential, House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, mayoral and city council candidates, as well as two Virginia constitutional amendments.
“Conducting an election during global pandemic has its challenges,” Cochran said.
Trump was and is correct. Mail in voting will be the biggest fraud ever. Our horrible governor is so liberal and controls the cities/coast/Richmond area which is why our state went to a RAT. What a shame....I’m losing all hope. :(
yet we’re nuts for not trusting that mail-in voting will work out well
right
i have a coronavirus vaccine for ya if you believe that
No thank you on the vaccine.
Last night I watched a Netflix documentary on Nostradamus. He predicted end of the world would be 2060. Starting to think it may be sooner :( He sure predicted a lot of other things based on study of the Bible that were spot on.
November is shaping up to be the biggest fluster cluck in US history.............................
Recap: Virginia Senate Race, 2018.
Incumbent Dave Brat lost to Abigail Spanberger.
I received dozens of Spanberger mailings before the election.
I received ZERO Brat mailings before the election.....
Brat’s mailings all arrived AFTER the freaking election.
The Post Office is corrupt and must never be trusted, PERIOD.
Promise you libs are determined the count go past the time Trump/Pence must leave the WH. That is their plan as no other to oust him has worked. It is very, very terrifying. These unAmerican RATS would rather 100% destroy our country than lose their power.
There is a nearby thread in which someone here asked "What is the difference between mail-in ballots and absentee ballots. In part, it appears to be this:
Absentee ballot -- the VOTER contacts the government and requests an individual absentee ballot so that they can legitimately cast a vote even though they will not be able to reach the polls on election day.
Mail-in votes -- the GOVERNMENT mass mails the general population with lots of ballots that can be returned (in some cases after the election) so that everyone can vote early and often.
And here we see a "NON-PROFIT GROUP" taking it upon themselves to mass-mail absentee ballots to voters with "built-in errors" so that inconvenient votes can be easily discarded as needed.
Every, single application that wasn’t requested by the voter should not only be tossed, but illegal. I want to know who this “non-profit” organization is. What I do know is it will be Democratic-based.
I repeat.
Q: How many Fraudulent Votes are too many?
A: One. The one that voids my Legal Vote.
What was it called? I might watch.
My apologies. I watched Hulu and Netflix last night and it was on Hulu. Called Nostradamus Effect. Appears to be a series and amazingly good.
“””Last night I watched a Netflix documentary on Nostradamus. He predicted end of the world would be 2060.””””
Idiocracy wasn’t supposed to be here until 2505. I’d say it is here now.
But I thought all this mail-in voting was supposed to save us from the COVID virus by making sure we did not have to do things "in person"?!? Is this Cochran person crazy? Are they trying to get us all infected??
Just an innocent mistake? Sure it was. More likely sowing chaos as a minimum or outright ballot fraud.
He still was not 100 per cent accurate...the Bible’s gold standard for Biblically accurate prophets.
Agreed. No way God is going to allow much more of this. I cannot see how.
Close, but no cigar ClearCase. Absentee ballots were not mailed. "Requests" for absentee ballots were mailed by the group.
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