[Marvic 1]

Originally Posted by Kilmacowen

I also heard that I will be able to check online that my ballot has been received and counted.

Will it also let you know if the ballot has been tampered with?

[Kilmacowen]

Originally Posted by Byte1

No, mail in voting is not the same as absentee voting. Absentee voting is where one requests/REQUESTS a ballot and it is mailed specifically to them. Mail in voting is a scheme by one party to force voting and do not care whether or not it gets to the right person or not. The ballots are mailed to supposed registered voters (dead, alive or moved out of state, doesn't matter) and then whomever receives the ballot fills it in and mails it back. There are big problems with that idea and easily hosed up. I have moved around many times in my lifetime, and recently moved even here. My ballot does not get to me so I don't get to vote. It goes to someone else and they decide to fill it in and send it along, or it gets forwarded and doesn't get to me in time.

SOrry, but if you can go shopping weekly for groceries or whatever or play golf, you can walk up to a SAFE voters booth and cast your vote. Lets face it, the reasoning is either laziness, fraud, crooked and or abusive to expect mail in voting to be legit. Shoot, the gov can't even get the stimulus checks sent out correctly and sent checks to thousands of dead people.

I have no problem with absentee voting, IF someone cannot get out to vote. Hardly anyone in this country can't get out to vote. Those living overseas, yes.

Get off your duff and go to the polling station. It's going to be safer than anything else you are doing when you leave your home.

No, I did not request a ballot. As a registered voter , I was sent an application for a ballot from my town, not the government. After approval, a ballot will be sent. Same as absentee. This is being done because of covid. You have to consider the volunteers not only the voters. Just who is going to volunteer? In the past, I have always volunteered to work at the polls. This year I have to consider my wellbeing.

[Kilmacowen]

Originally Posted by Marvic 1

Will it also let you know if the ballot has been tampered with?

I have worked as a volunteer at the polls for years. Yes, they are checked for tampering same as absentee, no difference.

[mamamia54]

Mail in voting will be a disaster. I see no reason why responsible people just can’t go vote. Wear a mask, social distance and sanitize. If you can go shop in Publix or any other store, than you can go vote.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by mamamia54

Mail in voting will be a disaster. I see no reason why responsible people just can’t go vote. Wear a mask, social distance and sanitize. If you can go shop in Publix or any other store, than you can go vote.

Mail-in voting is ALREADY done all over the country. It's nothing new, it's nothing you need to "get used to." You're not even required to do it. It's an option, one that has gained in popularity as a result of restrictions nationwide due to a pandemic during election season.

Mail-in voting started during the Civil War. If you aren't comfortable mailing in your ballot, don't. Go to the polls and vote in person.

For those who are not comfortable voting in person, mail-in voting is an option. It's BEEN an option in Florida for 20 years.

It's only a "thing" for people with an agenda, and people who get suckered into buying that agenda.

[mtdjed]

Originally Posted by hoskinsonrl@gmail.com

The post office does not/will not mail ballots to everyone. They will mail to registered voters only! If you are not registered to vote you will not receive a ballot. In Florida you have to request a ballot be sent to you

The US Post Office does not mail ballots. Since Ballots vary so much from state to state, county by county, precinct by precinct, city by city, it would seem that the responsibility to mail ballots would be with the lowest common denominator. The US Post Office processes the mail.

[mtdjed]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

Mail-in voting is ALREADY done all over the country. It's nothing new, it's nothing you need to "get used to." You're not even required to do it. It's an option, one that has gained in popularity as a result of restrictions nationwide due to a pandemic during election season.

Mail-in voting started during the Civil War. If you aren't comfortable mailing in your ballot, don't. Go to the polls and vote in person.

For those who are not comfortable voting in person, mail-in voting is an option. It's BEEN an option in Florida for 20 years.

It's only a "thing" for people with an agenda, and people who get suckered into buying that agenda.

Absentee voting like you said has been done in Florida for years but not necessarily without problem. See attempt to correct comment.

Florida bill aims to cure balloting woes, streamline counts – WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale

And this is the uncontested issue. Absentee balloting OK.

But the issue being discussed is not ABSENTEE Ballots.

Amazing how some try to use absentee ballot success (with some problems) as the demonstration that state , city, district, mailout of unsolicited ballots. Is it too hard to figure out that they are two different issues.

[DONS999]

People please help me understand !!
The states that want to send a mail in ballot to all registered voters , answer me this , for all those wanting to vote in person there is no way to verify that the voter hasn't already mailed in the ballot he received at is home. So you have millions being able to vote twice "the Chicago way.

This is why you can only do requested absentee mail in ballots and never mass mail out to all registered voters

[J1ceasar]

Just a quick comment concerning mail in balloting and voting. I suggest you Google voting by mail in Paterson New Jersey. Just recently they had a huge scandal with both parties getting arrested I holding back about 20%! Of the votes. I'm not talkin one two or three people, but 4000 + ballots not being provided to be counted out of about 16,000 votes. It's a scary thought when you consider how the state of California has more people registered to vote then they actually have in their population. Was the fact that the common joke in Chicago is that mr. Smith who died 10 years ago just voted 10 times there is no way then mailing in balloting will not have hundreds of thousands of issues was being counted correctly across 87,000 voting districts or even if you'll know ever if your vote counted until they come up with some sort of computerized check and you personally check your own vote I will stick the good old fashioned pulling a lever or blackening a oval on a sheet

[Tom2172]

Many 2020 case of fraudulent mail in voting! There are no safe guards! Pennsylvania is suing to be able to count mail in ballots 10 days after the election, 10 days
So after election night - they will know haw many mail in ballots to find to determine the winner. There will be no election integrity.
Stalin said “he who counts the ballots wins”
2020 he with the largest printing press Churning out mail in ballots will wins
20,000 American drivers licenses from China found the other day in Chicago

[billyb1950]

Originally Posted by Byte1

No, mail in voting is not the same as absentee voting. Absentee voting is where one requests/REQUESTS a ballot and it is mailed specifically to them. Mail in voting is a scheme by one party to force voting and do not care whether or not it gets to the right person or not. The ballots are mailed to supposed registered voters (dead, alive or moved out of state, doesn't matter) and then whomever receives the ballot fills it in and mails it back. There are big problems with that idea and easily hosed up. I have moved around many times in my lifetime, and recently moved even here. My ballot does not get to me so I don't get to vote. It goes to someone else and they decide to fill it in and send it along, or it gets forwarded and doesn't get to me in time.

SOrry, but if you can go shopping weekly for groceries or whatever or play golf, you can walk up to a SAFE voters booth and cast your vote. Lets face it, the reasoning is either laziness, fraud, crooked and or abusive to expect mail in voting to be legit. Shoot, the gov can't even get the stimulus checks sent out correctly and sent checks to thousands of dead people.

I have no problem with absentee voting, IF someone cannot get out to vote. Hardly anyone in this country can't get out to vote. Those living overseas, yes.

Get off your duff and go to the polling station. It's going to be safer than anything else you are doing when you leave your home.

Well said. I voted in-person early last Wednesday @ Laurel Manor. The place was more sterile than any facility I have been to...possibly as sterile as a hospital operating room.

[riley2011]

Originally Posted by hoskinsonrl@gmail.com

The post office does not/will not mail ballots to everyone. They will mail to registered voters only! If you are not registered to vote you will not receive a ballot. In Florida you have to request a ballot be sent to you

How does the post office know who’s registered to vote?

[ficoguy]

What’s the point of having an ejection day at all? Make it year round. Why make the effort for a day? 20 percent of the people will lose their ballots and then rush down to the polls only to be told you can’t vote twice - then the cry of “voter suppression” will be howled into the night. And if you can’t read th Ry should have pictures of the candidates where you can put an X instead of fully filling in the circle with black or blue ink - yes that’s right - no orange magic marker....oh wait, but every vote needs to be counted regardless of the instructions...I am still getting ballots from NJ even though I moved to FL 3 years ago.

[Bay Kid]

We are looking more and more like a 3rd world country.

[Jacksig]

Everyone goes to Walmart; Cosco; etc. Easy fix-Put voting stations in the stores!