Posted on 09/30/2020 5:46:55 AM PDT by sevinufnine
Mail-in voting has gotten off to a rocky start in NYC where election officials sent out nearly 100K absentee ballots with the wrong names & addresses printed on the return envelopes (THIS WEEK!). The deluge of faulty ballots, sent to voters across Brooklyn, could result in ballots being voided if voters sign their own name on return envelopes bearing different names. The NYC Board of Elections blamed the problem on the company hired to print and mail the ballots. (not themselves who FAILED to proof-read before sending)
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
It’s unclear exactly how the city will handle voters who had already mailed their completed ballot back in the provided envelopes.
Ryan said elections workers will reach out to voters by social media and, if available, by telephone and email addresses. And he said the board will ensure all received ballots are ‘appropriately processed’ and tallied votes are ‘properly credited.’
‘It is essential that confidence be established on this process and that we make certain we have all the voters who potentially have a problem have a full and fair opportunity to remedy that problem,’ Ryan said.
The printer the city blamed for the error, Phoenix Graphics, didn’t return messages seeking comment.
Meanwhile, the city elections board also was dealing with confusion regarding another printing anomaly on absentee ballots.
Ordinarily, absentee ballots in the city are sent out with a heading identifying them as an ‘Official Absentee / Military Ballot.’ This year, the slash between ‘absentee’ and ‘military’ was left out, leading some voters to believe they had mistakenly been mailed a ballot for use only by members of the military.
The board tweeted that the ballot was still good for use by any registered voter.
The pair of mishaps took place despite intense scrutiny of mail-in voting nationwide. And it comes on the heels of a rocky spring primary in New York in which election boards struggled to handle a record amount of voting by mail.
Marla Garfield, an editor who lives in Brooklyn, said she was among those who received a ballot envelope with another person´s name.
Garfield said she is ‘furious’ about the errors and plants to vote in-person out of concern replacement ballots won’t arrive in time. She´s worried the confusion will fuel distrust in mail-in-voting.
In Brooklyn’s Sheepshead Bay section, Victoria Edel, 28, said her family of four was excited to open up their ballots to vote by mail. They had requested them online Aug. 22.
Then, they discovered she had received her younger brother´s ballot envelope. Her younger brother had her mother´s. Her mother had the envelope of a woman who appears to live nearby. She said she’s worried about people who don’t watch the news and perhaps are still sending back ballots in wrong envelopes.
‘It feels like it´s really easy for a lot of people to be disenfranchised this way,’ Edel said. She´s hopeful she´ll get her correct envelope eventually.
I believe the top rated comment on Daily Mail is pretty darn sound regarding what’s really happening here:
It doesn’t matter who votes....it only matters who counts the votes. -J. Stalin
Please forward this to Chris Wray.
This has to be fake news. Joe Biden and Chris Wallace said there are no problems with mail-in ballots.
i harvested 2000 of these ballots and have been filling them out here at home. That’s 2000 more ballots FOR president Trump.
Both sides can play this sordid game.
EVERYTHING DEMOCRATS TOUCH TURNS TO CRAP!
It is the planned chaos to nullify Trump’s win in November. Anything and everything will be thrown at the wall......gird your loins for the biggest election fight of our lives.
Yeah. And Christopher Wray said there’s no mail voter fraud. Trump should fire that bastard immediately.
So 100,000 people receive a second ballot...along with instructions to vote (again). See? There is no fraud here. Just normal Democratic incompetence.
When Trump wins they can claim the election did not count because XXXXXX
” All voters who got the bad ballots will receive new ones before the November 3 election,”
But will they be able to be returned in time?
This happens because they are trying to do the Vote-by-mail on the fly - and with a lot of false assumptions.
They are cramming it in as a desperate attempt, and don’t have the legwork to even set it up right.
It’s NY.
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