No excitement around here so you get cute. My 70 lb Lab and “Pinto”
play well together.
Voter enthusiasm for SloJoe, or lack thereof, has been a
topic of discussion currently. Getting out the vote is always a concern for
candidates and party hacks. Other than the opportunity for fraud, this may be
the motivation of the Donkey’s push for voting by mail. It takes a bit of
effort to get out and vote. If a ballot is lying around their home, the
otherwise apathetic voter just might fill it out and mail it, or not.
The mail in ballot Colorado uses takes more than one First
Class Stamp. Other States?
As in any election, the integrity depends on those
responsible for conducting the election. In Colorado, that is each County Clerk
and Recorder. The office is required to pay for Election Judges, from all
political parties. My mother served for decades. I’m not sure her motivation
wasn’t financial but she was diligent in her duties.
Readers concerned about the integrity of their local
election process might look into becoming an Election Judge. It is a long,
grueling day, maybe more. Think of it as a military mission, if you will.
10 comments:
In the US there are 36 states that require voter ID. So when you send in your ballot with some type of proof that this vote is actually by someone alive and registered. When they open the ballot whoever is in charge now knows who's voting which way. My vote is suppose to be private. What private about mail-in ballots. It sounds like, and need to do some research, that 14 states with no voter ID could cause a election to tilt. Badly.
One signs the outer envelope so the signature can be compared when the ballot is received. The inner envelope has no identifying markings and is dumped into a big bin for counting. Two separate areas, different people staffing each.
We've been voting by mail in Oregon for a long time.
It doesn't concern me.
What does concern me is that we once again have two shitty candidates.
I agreed to serve as a poll worker on November 3.
Apparently people have to keep their shotguns and AR's outside of the polling place. Go figure.
S'm
Afraid you are correct. Solution at this late date?
Ami
Same system here in Colorado. With over fifty counties who knows what can happen? Denver and the five surrounding counties overwhelm the rest of the state on statewide races.
LL
An armed voter is a polite voter?
We have mail in ballots here, no postage required.
After signing the outside, I Put my ballot in the box reserved for ballots only, so it doesn't go through the normal mail. Thing is, there is an R by my name so those opening the ballot know what party I'm aligned with. To verify that my vote got there and was counted I can go to the county's registrar web sight and check.
Ours don't have a party affiliation on them, but we do pay postage. In my county, a site lets you track the status of your ballot.
I'll be voting in person. Wanted to volunteer, but they already have enough folks in my part of Texas.
I usually hand deliver my ballot to a drop off box.
We take ours to the drop-box at the courthouse.
I'm 5 minutes from City Hall and a convenient drive up drop box.
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