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This reminds me of how absentee voting works. For example, in 2020 New York state threw 3.62% of absentee ballots in the trash. https://elections-blog.mit.edu
by thunky 2y ago
This reminds me of how absentee voting works.
For example, in 2020 New York state threw 3.62% of absentee ballots in the trash.
https://elections-blog.mit.edu/articles/deep-dive-absentee-ballot-rejection-2020-general-election https://elections-blog.mit.edu/articles/deep-dive-absentee-b...
Some legitimately discarded I'm sure, but some were thrown out because a human thought the signature was off. And who knows if they got it right:
strictly scrutinized the ballots that were returned, and often did not even notify absentee voters that their ballot was rejected because of an administrative deficiency
Plus this type of thing happens all the time (happened to me this year in a different state):
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/03/21/incorrect-absentee-ballots-sent-to-165-voters-in-milwaukee/73053901007/ https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/...