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If I go to a voting location I can sign a voter roll and establish my presence as a voter, I sign the roll and I get a ballot in exchange (in my jurisdiction).
by kfrzcode 6y ago
If I go to a voting location I can sign a voter roll and establish my presence as a voter, I sign the roll and I get a ballot in exchange (in my jurisdiction).
This ballot is then filled in and anonymously submitted into whatever box or diebold machine.
With mail-in, a signature is attached to the ballot, which is a different situation. I'm missing something.
- 12xo 6y agoNo, not at all the case. All provisional ballots are verified. They are not anonymous, they are always tied to a registered voter or in some cases where they allow same day registration, a verified voter.
- irrational 6y agoYou are missing something. The envelope comes in. A person checks that the signature on the envelope matches that of the person the ballot belongs to. If they match, the envelope is opened and the interior sealed envelope is removed. This interior sealed envelope contains no identifying information. That interior sealed envelope is mixed in with all the rest of the interior sealed envelopes (hundreds of thousands to millions of envelopes) so there is no way to identify which ballot belongs to whom. Then the interior sealed envelopes are opened, the ballots are extracted and scanned. All of this is overseen by observers and you can go and watch it if you want.