Over 80,000 mail-in ballots disqualified in NYC primary mess

New York Post ^ | 8/5/2020 | Carl Campanile, Nolan Hicks and Bernadette Hogan

[Zenyatta]

The mail-in ballots of more than 84,000 New York City Democrats who sought to vote in the presidential primary were disqualified, according to new figures released by the Board of Elections.

The city BOE received 403,103 mail-in ballots for the June 23 Democratic presidential primary.

But the certified results released Wednesday revealed that only 318,995 mail-in ballots were counted.

That means 84,108 ballots were not counted or invalidated — 21 percent of the total.

One out of four mail-in ballots were disqualified for arriving late, lacking a postmark or failing to include a voter’s signature, or other defects. The Post reported Tuesday that roughly 30,000 mail-in ballots were invalidated in Brooklyn alone.

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[LibertyWoman]

And I’ll bet that the ‘disqualified’ ballots just happen to be all Rs or Is Funny how that works

[ClearCase_guy]

Mail-in ballots work just fine as long as a 21% margin of error doesn’t bother anyone.

[Freee-dame]

Dan Bongino said on a recent podcast that the absentee ballots that are used in Florida need to have a stamp put on them. I see this as a major difference since mail with a stamp needs a postmark while prepaid mail does not. It is important to know when a mailed ballot was postmarked.

Does anyone from Florida know if this is accurate?

[proxy_user]

Yes, they supplied prepaid envelopes with the ballots. The Post Office does not usually postmark such envelopes. They told the Post Office that they should be sure to postmark these envelopes, but you know what the Post Office is like - word doesn’t always get down to the bottom-level workers. About 95% of the disqualified ballots had no postmark, but I believe they counted the ones that arrived by election day whether they had a postmark or not, since they were obviously mailed in time.

[moovova]

“Over 80,000 mail-in ballots disqualified...”

Not a problem. They’ll save them until 2024...maybe they’ll get away with it then.

[Moltke]

21 percent of the total. One out of four

Math. It's hard, right?

[Craftmore]

Nothing to see here folks,just move along.Voting is wassist anyway.

[reg45]

Did those ballots also include local races? What about Republican primaries?

[ridesthemiles]

I have been arguing for weeks about the fact that prepaid postage doesn’t get ANY KIND of ISPS postmark.

Even when something does get a postmark, it is very faint.

[Freee-dame]

I know that prepaid mailings do not get any kind of a postmark. The same governments that are requiring the mass mailing of ballots, however, could change that by making some kind of a statement on the outside.

In addition, it is my understanding that in some states these mass mailings of ballots, not requests for a ballot but ballots themselves, are being forwarded when the person is no longer at that address. That is outrageous. If the person has not notified the board of elections of a move, then that person should not be voting from from that address.

If the mess mailed ballots were not forwardable, but were returned to the board of elections, it would be an easy way to help clean up the voter rolls. It certainly seems that Democrat states do not want to clean up the voter rolls.

[Svartalfiar]

21 percent of the total. One out of four

Math. It's hard, right?

Well, when Carl, Nolan, and Bernadette all went to journalism school, math wasn't even part of the liberal arts requirement for the degree!