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Originally Posted by bobnyce
I don't think anyone in their right mind would be concerned with mail in voting except for timing issues, received on time. However, if anyone is proposing mass mailings to all residents that are not registered voters, then everyone should have a problem.
Right now you must request an absentee ballot. It is checked and confirmed that you are a registered voter and mailed to you where you requested. Then you must return the ballot within a certain time limit or your vote is not counted.
That's fine! But, having the post office mail by reduced price mass mailing to everyone is ridiculous! If you cannot take the time to register to vote by mail, car registration at any county office then you don't deserve to vote. Voting is an obligation of every citizen but not every one in the county is a citizen and they certainly do not have the right to vote.
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There are mass mailings that go to everyone with a mailbox, and then there are selective mass mailings that are sorted by zip code and street to facilitate machine stamping. These get a much lower postage rate than regular first class. This is how subscriber’s magazines are sent: only to subscribers. But they are still mass mailings. I do NOT believe ballots will go to every mailbox. Only to the mailboxes of registered voters, and to the NAME of those voters.
If you are voting by mail, as will I, and you want your vote to count, return your ballot by mid-October. There are some states that won’t open any mail-in ballots until Election Day, but most will open them secretly and check their veracity in advance.
If you figure you can post your ballot on Election Day and it will get postmarked that day, well, that may not happen, and your vote may not count. Deadlines are deadlines, and we want to know who wins. I suspect that a lot of votes will be disqualified because they are late, but so it goes. People have been warned. It’s easy to pop the ballot into the mailbox.