To: kattracks
The search of the warehouse was prompted by a curious finding: None of the envelopes of the 573 other ballots contained names beginning with the letters A or B, and only two started with C, The Times reported. What exactly is the implication of this? Why are there names on ballots anyway?
11 posted on
12/17/2004 11:57:01 AM PST by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along)
To: Rodney King
15 posted on
12/17/2004 11:57:29 AM PST by
JennysCool
(Prayers up 24/7 for Allegra's safe return.)
To: Rodney King
What exactly is the implication of this? Why are there names on ballots anyway? Absentee ballots, probably still in their envelopes...
28 posted on
12/17/2004 12:02:23 PM PST by
Chad Fairbanks
(Go Ahead. Mace just makes me even more excited.)
To: Rodney King
Why are there names on ballots anyway? In case not yet answered: for absentee ballots, the outside envelope has to have the voter's name, address, and signature for matching purposes with the voter registration rolls. Once the signatures are verified, the outer envelope is separated and the vote becomes anonymous (in a perfect world of unfraudulent polling practices).
That is why the GOP is so hot to stop the handling and counting of these ballots. Once they are removed from their envelopes and shuffled into the overall count, you can't locate them to extract them if the signatures turn out to be unvalidatable.
105 posted on
12/17/2004 1:21:31 PM PST by
GretchenM
(What we do know has been filtered through the Old Media in large part.)
To: Rodney King
What exactly is the implication of this? Why are there names on ballots anyway?Absentee ballots, and provisional ballots as well, are verified as being from registered voters before they are opened; thus the name, address and voter information has to be on the outside of the envelope.
116 posted on
12/17/2004 2:03:51 PM PST by
JimRed
(Investigate, overturn and prosecute vote fraud; turn more counties red!)
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