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Old 08-17-2020, 08:23 AM
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Default Absentee voting ok, mail in no
As a Virginia Assistant Precient Chief I offer an educated opinion.
Mail in and absentee voting are different. Absentee requires a legitimate reason and mail in does not. A big risk to mail in is many,probably hunreds of thousands of votes, may not count. During in person voting a huge number of people make mistakes, marking ballots wrong, voting for 2 or for the wrong person and trying to mark out one, accidentally putting pen tip on ballot, etc. We catch that when they deposit the ballot in the DS200 and it gets rejected. Results, spoiled ballot and a chance at a do over. Mail in, as well as absentee, ballots get ONE CHANCE ONLY! Screw up and your ballot is not counted!! I have seen very intelligent people mess it up. Imagine hundreds of thousands of errors.