Re: [AFMUG] OT: The Silence is deafening..

Mon, 09 Nov 2020 07:52:46 -0800

In our county (and I have no idea if this is the norm in the rest of the state), they count them as they come in, but hold the results in a secure area until the close of the in-person polls. Ballots that are postmarked (if they were mailed) up until the day of the election will be accepted for a certain amount of time, but I don't know how long that is.

We also have an online ballot tracking system. After we dropped our ballots off, we could go to a ballot status web site that told us (1) if the ballot had been received, and (2) if it had been accepted. It took 48 hours for our ballots to show up in that system. I presume if our ballots had not been accepted, there is some sort of mechanism to go fix that, but I've never had to use it.


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On 11/9/2020 7:25 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
Yes, some states are doing exactly that. 
 
Sent: Monday, November 9, 2020 8:09 AM
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Scan them as they go, but don't publish the ongoing count. 

On 11/8/2020 4:45 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
I think vote by mail and scan them as they arrive is the way to go.  That way when the polls close you have an immediate count. 
 
Sent: Sunday, November 8, 2020 2:38 PM
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The whole punch card voting "system"  was doomed from the beginning. I remember using it when I lived in Santa Clara County  30 years ago or so. Even when you punched out a hole properly, the chads would sometime stick or hang on a corner.

For quite some time now, we've been using the paper ballots where you fill in the square or the circle.

I've also been registered as a permanent absentee for over a decade. When I voted (almost a month ago now), we filled out our ballots at the kitchen counter, and took them to a drop box the next day when we were running errands in town. The actual act of "voting" (if you want to call it that) took less than 1 minute as we just dropped the ballots off at one of dozens of drop boxes all over the county.Our county has (IIRC) 39 drop boxes for a population of ~~ 750,000, or about 1 drop box for every 20,000 people.

Pennsylvania still hasn't started counting the late arrival absentee ballots. All of the ones they've counted so far arrived before November 3, but for reasons I don't understand were not allowed to be counted until after the day-of voting. From the things I've read, there are only about 85,000 of them, and they are unlikely to do anything but extend Biden's cushion.

I (for one) would be in favor of uniform voting/counting standards. Perhaps it would be a violation of state's rights, but on the other hand, there would be a lot less confusion when the time for voting comes around.

 

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On 11/8/2020 11:08 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
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