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Originally Posted by Singerlady (Post 1844052)

Yep. Handed mine in yesterday.

My husband was one of those people in line yesterday. His “SECRET” envelope was pre sealed. He had to make a trip to get another envelope.
Low and behold there was an article in this AM’s DS about the pre sealed being a problem.

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Originally Posted by billyb1950 (Post 1843943)

It's an ABSENTEE ballot, not an unsolicited mail-in ballot like the ones being flooded around the country to every household.

They are all the same-same. Different names for the same thing. Just gets people confused and able to point fingers at other states and how they handle the SAME thing. It is ALL mail-in voting, a thing of the future.

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Originally Posted by Windguy (Post 1843987)

As someone who lived in Colorado where voting by mail was how it was done, the ballots are solicited. When you register to vote, you are soliciting a ballot to be mailed to you. The only difference between CO and here is we have to ask twice in FL.

We never had any reports of fraud, so please quit listening to the fear mongering.

Very true. Great post!

No postage necessary if you drop it off at supervisor of election office at the gold dome.

Sounds fishy. Is it a ballot you requested?

So, you take your mail in ballot that you received in the mail, that was handled by how many people, fill it out and stand in line with a bunch of people to be told to go inside and HAND it to another person? Hmmm, now that's a great idea of how to avoid the virus. I mean, early voting this month when there is hardly anyone in the line, that is spaced six feet and then waiting until someone calls you to the table that has masked persons checking your ID and handing you a ballot, where you then use a segregated booth to fill it out and then put it in the machine yourself. Some folks will go to a lot of trouble to accomplish the same exact thing.
I'll be voting in person. I will wear my mask and handle a paper ballot that only one person will have touched (likely with gloves) and I will insert it into the machine that has a meter on it where I can see my vote register and counted by the machine.
Gotta love that mass hysteria that has people hiding in their bomb shelters or running amok screaming "the sky is falling." This a great sociology experiment and will be in future text books.

Just dropped ours off on Powell Road where the DMV is.

Not so that question was asked at Board of Elections today and we were told by people collecting ballots that we did not need to put a stamp on it

We visit the Library a couple times a week, so we dropped it today and picked up books. Don't see an advantage of voting in person or early if there is a faster way and can do multiple stuff (breakfast at Darrells was also part of the run) :)

I’m wondering why one parties mail in ballots are legitimate and the other parties are fraudulent. Hmmmm just saying

I am registered to receive mail-in ballots for all general election and I got mine yesterday

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Originally Posted by maggie1 (Post 1843947)

The mail in envelope is not postage free, so don't forget the stamp. Your vote will not count unless it is returned with the proper 1st class postage.

Your mail in ballot requires two Forever stamps, not just one. I read on the gov. site that it requires $.70 postage Someone in Marion county told me that theirs do not require postage but Sumter does.