Absentee Voting

[bigred1]

Prolly not but you never know with a postal worker.

Oooooh, you typed prolly. Look out for the grammar police!

 

[DavidMcmillan]

We elected to do the absentee route this year due to the “rona” and some trips we had planned. It really is easy to do, and you just live by faith that it gets counted correctly. I have worked polls in the past, and the people at th3 election board, at least for Cleveland County, are very professional when it comes to the ballots.

 

[TwoForFlinching]

I've been voting in-person absentee (where you go stand in line on a Saturday morning at the county election board instead of Tuesday morning at a church) since the 2000 election, when I actually had to stand in line for a couple of hours outside the principal's office in an elementary school (talk about triggering some PTSD). That's not a good option for me this time, so I signed up for "don't even show your happy arse up" absentee voting.

I haven't voted since Bush's second term because I've always been on the road. Still registered in my home town, just decided to try the mail thing.

 

[rc508pir]

Oooooh, you typed prolly. Look out for the grammar police!

They're called Karens now LOL

 

[Shadowrider]

I'm tempted to request an absentee ballot off that sketchy FaceBook thing that is at the top of my feed every time I open it. If I go to the polls and see it's already been cast when I've ran it through my shredder after receiving it I'll know something is up. I'm not in Horn's district so maybe mine will do things right.

 

[DRC458]

We have voted absentee, and we have done the early voting at the County Election Board. We will be going to the polls in November. We just don't trust the USPS to get the ballots where they belong in a timely manner. And, when your ballot gets to the Election Board, somebody has to see to it that it is counted properly. I am more worried about plain old incompetence rather than dishonesty. That said, we had a mail carrier let go within the last several months for theft of mail. And, there was the time I listened to some workers at the polling place tell voters how to vote, i.e. who to vote for, when we voted at a retirement village. And, yes, I called their hands on it and reported it to the Election Board Secretary, for all the good that did.

BTW - You can verify that your absentee ballot was counted, albeit way after the fact. I didn't know that until earlier this year, when we were still considering absentee voting this year. When you go to the Oklahoma Voter Portal and enter your information, it will bring up the options currently available to you, and your past absentee voting. It showed the date my ballot was received and the date it was counted. I didn't know that was there.

 

[bigred1]

I'm tempted to request an absentee ballot off that sketchy FaceBook thing that is at the top of my feed every time I open it. If I go to the polls and see it's already been cast when I've ran it through my shredder after receiving it I'll know something is up. I'm not in Horn's district so maybe mine will do things right.

Don't shred it! Save it for evidence.

 

[Oklahomabassin]

It really is easy to do, and you just live by faith.

Some feel the same about the masks.

 

[DavidMcmillan]

Not sure what that has to do with voting, but your point has been made.

 

[kroberts2131]

I’d be more worried about the destination. Someone has to open the ballots and feed them into the machine. Oops, where did that right-leaning ballot go? Oh well, next. Oops, where did...

could easily go both ways. Wouldn’t surprise me.