Officials Warn of Absentee Vote Factor in Recall Election

New York Times ^ | 10-7-03 | SARAH KERSHAW

[kingu]

Absentee ballots still use the old punch card system, how long does it take for a machine to count punch cards ? Answer, a few seconds at most per thousand.

Actually, the most time intensive thing is verifying the signatures on the ballots vs the voter registration and absentee ballot request. That is what will take the most time.

[Drango]

See this thread regarding how I was disenfranchised due to not getting my absentee ballot! Bummer dude!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/996301/posts

[kingu]

Well, ya see - on "regular" elections, they can count ALL of them overnight .....

Absentee ballots delivered on the day of the election or the day before have traditionally taken time to count. This is nothing surprising, other than the huge number of the ballots. If their numbers are right, the remaining absentee ballots will equal what the entire absentee returns were a few years ago. Pretty amazing...

[Hunble]

Voter faud: 12%

Delay in courts: 5 month.

[Tempest]

"But 800,000 additional absentee ballots and an expected 400,000 ballots that will not be counted until after election night"

Ah yes. Just enough dead people and illegal immigrants to insure that Davis stays in power. I'm sure a few of them will have McClintock votes in them just to feign legitimacy. But all the Arnold votes should have been weeded out by then.

[zencat]

Anyone know what time the polls open and close in California tomorrow?

[deport]

Absentee balloting is a headache to keep straight.... It seems an early voting arrangement would make things easier and eliminate a ton of the mail ballots...

[deport]

7 a.m. till 8 p.m.

[lainde]

Agreed...The election PART II (sigh).

[Tempest]

7 am open I'm not sure of the close time. I suspect it'll be extended so that all the dead Democrats and illegal aliens will have time to vote.

[carlo3b]

I'm from Chicago, and believe me, I know what vote fraud smells like.. and this has the stink of a cover story all over it.

First the phony polls showing the recall is drawing closer, then media reports warning the computers are corruptible, and dangerously unreliable, and now this.. Remember the Prince of Darkness is personally in charge (Clinton took command about a month ago)

[GeronL]

Davis' people can change a lot those absentee votes while the weeks drag on.

[goldstategop]

There are a lot of absentee votes. The Democrats' big problem is they didn't slime early enough to affect the outcome. Those votes can't be changed. In a sense one is practically grateful for their stupidity.

[John Lenin]

But running the cards through the macines will only take a day at most, if the election isn't even close I would think that verifying signatures would be a total waste of time and money.

[Saundra Duffy]

California!

[deport]

Has CA every proposed some type early voting process as opposed to absentee voting? Do you know... It sure seems it would streamline the process over what they are doing now.... Just curious

[onyx]

San Diego will use punch cards. Fast counting.

[Ophiucus]

FreeRepublic should add a pool to the donation drive. Take bids for the number of lawsuits that will be filed, the number of days that the election results will be delayed/challenged, and the top prize for when the whole mess appears before the US Supremes (and whether the vote will be 5-4 or 6-3 to slap the 9th Circuit Court with a big wet fish).

[carlo3b]

FreeRepublic should add a pool to the donation drive. Take bids for the number of lawsuits that will be filed, the number of days that the election results will be delayed/challenged, and the top prize for when the whole mess appears before the US Supremes (and whether the vote will be 5-4 or 6-3 to slap the 9th Circuit Court with a big wet fish).

Yeah!!!... This election is turning into a bookmaker's wet dream.. :o)

[marsh2]

This year, our precinct was transitioned to a vote by mail precinct. (I live in a sparsely populated area.) We had to fill in the oval with black ink. Then we sign and put our address on the envelope.

When I hand delivered my vote to the County Clerk (one of the options,) I commented, so much for annonymnity with my name right there. She said they open the envelope without the name showing. Then they feed it into a reader that tallies it.

I imagine they verify signatures off the envelope.