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lostnfound

(16,189 posts) Tue Dec 4, 2018, 09:43 PM Dec 2018

Absentee ballot shenanigans.. crowd source examples?

Last edited Wed Dec 5, 2018, 12:21 AM - Edit history (1)

What if the actions taken in N.C. District 9 were repeated elsewhere?

Alarm bells ring for me when I hear about unexpectedly high numbers of absentee ballots being requested, or rejected, in multiple locations around the country.

The first time I heard it, I was glad, assuming it was people determined to contain Trump’s power.

But I got wiser and more wary of good news.

Long lines, it turns out, don’t always mean high interest. Sometimes it means that machines are broken or absent, or electronic poll books are shut down.

So.. where were there strange reports of absentee ballot anomalies?

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Absentee ballot shenanigans.. crowd source examples? (Original Post) lostnfound Dec 2018 OP

Georgia Absentee ballot issues lostnfound Dec 2018 #1

Georgia: 4700 absentee ballots requested but never received lostnfound Dec 2018 #3

Never received ballot, denied at polls for "having already voted" Nt lostnfound Dec 2018 #4

Florida - Palm Beach matches signatures, others don't..affects youth and PoC disproportinately lostnfound Dec 2018 #2

GOPers have to select their voters or they lose Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2018 #5

NC 09, not NC 08 pecosbob Dec 2018 #6

Thanks! Fixed. And I agree. lostnfound Dec 2018 #7

lostnfound

(16,189 posts)

1. Georgia Absentee ballot issues

Reply to lostnfound (Original post)

Tue Dec 4, 2018, 09:45 PM

Dec 2018

High rejection rate sim democratic counties... but also, several voters found to be deceased... and 149 ballots sent out but returned as undeliverable.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/11/16/signature-mismatches-missing-birthdays-errant-spouses-why-thousands-absentee-ballots-were-tossed-out-georgia/?utm_term=.bcde239c15b1

lostnfound

(16,189 posts)

3. Georgia: 4700 absentee ballots requested but never received

Reply to lostnfound (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 4, 2018, 10:08 PM

Dec 2018

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/dekalb-county/election-leaders-investigating-claim-4-700-voters-never-got-absentee-ballots/860527636

lostnfound

(16,189 posts)

4. Never received ballot, denied at polls for "having already voted" Nt

Reply to lostnfound (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 4, 2018, 10:14 PM

Dec 2018

https://www.ajc.com/news/local/multiple-dekalb-absentee-voter-issues-arise-election-day/FqgnCqHjjrnAz5sZfd84WP/

lostnfound

(16,189 posts)

2. Florida - Palm Beach matches signatures, others don't..affects youth and PoC disproportinately

Reply to lostnfound (Original post)

Tue Dec 4, 2018, 09:57 PM

Dec 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/us/voting-signatures-matching-elections.html

“the culprit was a driver’s license signature, hastily squiggled on an electronic signature pad two years earlier.“

Electronic signatures? OMG who pays attention to those? Hard to be consistent.