Now they'll know how many votes they need
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How many arrive without a postmark anyway?
Only non-witches get due process.
- Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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@jon-nyc said in Now they'll know how many votes they need:
How many arrive without a postmark anyway?
As many as needed.
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If I ever have the opportunity to cheat in order to keep a fascist from power, I only hope I have the moral courage and strength to do so. I pray that anybody in a position to cheat, will do so this election. Donald Trump must be stopped, and it is up to all decent people to stop him. No matter what. Period.
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@jon-nyc said in Now they'll know how many votes they need:
How many arrive without a postmark anyway?
I may be reading this wrong, but it looks all states require postmarked ballots. And they have to be postmarked before election day. The only difference is the timing.
All states require mail-in ballots be postmarked on or before Nov. 3.
OTOH, as long as election officials certify that it was mailed before election day, some states will count without a postmark.
At least 10 states (California, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington and West Virginia) accept ballots with missing or illegible postmarks that arrive after Election Day.
There are ways for election officials to verify that a ballot was cast by Election Day, even if it arrives without a legible postmark. For example, most states use bar codes that encode tracking information directly on ballot envelopes. Those systems can be used to help determine when a ballot was returned to a post office.
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National holiday. Vote, in person, on that day. ID and signature required. Massive criminal penaties for election fraud, scaled to the fraud perpetuated (loss of voting privilege and fine to let's take everything you own and give you a ten year vacation at a nearby Federal prison).
Exceptions made for military and government personnel (and their dependents) stationed out of the country.
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@jon-nyc said in Now they'll know how many votes they need:
How many arrive without a postmark anyway?
My question also. I donot think I have ever seen a piece of US mail that arrived without a postmark unless it was hand delivered to the end address.
I think another type of "clickbait" that will try and rile up people.
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If it never happened, it wouldn't be written into law. Would it?
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@Jolly said in Now they'll know how many votes they need:
If it never happened, it wouldn't be written into law. Would it?
I am sure it has happened before. But I think that the amount of times it has and does happen is very very very small.
In all the time you have received mail, how many times would you say that you have received a legimately mailed piece of mail without a postmark?
Maybe way back when when mail was sorted by hand, it happened more often, but I think now, with scanning and sorting technology, there are more places where the mail would be rejected if a postmark was not scanned.
