Here’s the gaming I fear will happen in CA.
80 million ballots were mailed out to homes. Dems mailed them back or put them in a dropbox.
GOP is used to voting in person, and don’t want to vote by mail or in a drop box, and won’t know that they won’t be able to vote in person unless they remember to take that unrequested ballot with them and turn it in and request a new in person ballot.
If they forget, they will only be allowed to vote provisionally, and those ballots will be thrown out.
I fear millions of GOP voters will be only allowed to vote provisionally this year as they don’t know they need to find (lying around the house for a month now) their mailed in ballots that they didn’t request, and take them down to the polling place, and turn them in.
Not good. I’m already encountering people who don’t know all this.
I voted in person. I took my unsolicited mailed in ballot with me to the Accessible Voting Location. I showed it to the poll worker and he printed out and gave me a new ballot. He told me he'd voided my mailed in ballot in the system already. The poll worker said I could drop my completed ballot in the regular ballot box (they had three boxes: regular, completed mailed in ballots, and provisional ballots.)
Well, we know how CA turned out.