
Journal pudge's Journal: Poll Voting 23
I am totally serious about this: come voting day this November, for the first time, I will be asked by my government to trust the U.S. postal system to deliver my vote, as there will be no polling places. There will be no no reliable chain of possession of my vote between me and the elections officials, should I do this.
I won't. Instead, I will go to the county auditor's office at noon on voting day to cast my vote. And I am going to encourage everyone else to do the same. And I hope for their sake that they have a lot of employees available to handle the influx.
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Actually, depends upon if it's done properly. Oregon requires two envelopes surrounding your ballot- the first is your standard security envelope used to protect from prying eyes, the 2nd is your voter verificaiton form. You sign across the closure of the 2nd envelope. Votes are completely invalidated and you are t
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but what prevents the mailed ballots out of certain districts from disappearing?
Federal law regulating the mail for one- but there has still been one instance of the Republicans
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It's not fixed. They don't even properly check to prevent multiple registration in a SINGLE county. There were many examples of double voters in King County last year, where the voter's multiple votes were each counted.
and the lack of a private vote if you choose to give up that right OR if you are strongarmed into voting
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I knew there were several states that weren't going to make the federal elections commission mandate- I was not aware that WA was one of them, but to be fair, the actual deadline isn't until November, as that is the first federal election in 2006.
Would you *expect* to hear about it? Someo
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You don't know the half of it. The elections officials in King County have said it is *not their job* to check for double voters.
Maybe not in specific individual cases of in-family pressure- but if there were roving gangs of partisans trying to influence the vote,
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Federal law as of November 2006 disagrees with them- and they've had 4 years of warnings about it, as the single-voter-registry-by-state with internet-enabled automatic double checking was a part of the 2002 laws for the Department of Homeland Security. (The idea being, of course, that such a system can also help provide data for tracking other more dangerous people).
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On this I am not sure. The ruling came from the Secretary of State, who said that "poll voters" had to provide ID. But I can't find the specifics of it. So if you vote by mail, yes, you need no ID to vote, just your signature, which is essentially not checked (as evidenced by the many examples found of signatures that did not come close to matching).
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To truly put the man-in-the-middle at risk for getting caught for dropping one side of the count, you would have to telephone each voter and thank them for their vote; and then
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True, but such an action is against both oath and contract signed by postal carriers- as well as being a felony under federal law. Votes are no different than checks to pay b
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As far as the postal workers and ethics go; no, I don't trust them. I've posted here before, where my Dad's snail mail was being read because he was a semi-high mucky-muck in one of the state political parties. Complaining to the local postmaster was wor
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So too is voter a federal felony.
you're accusing a system that is so good that "the check's in the mail" is considered proof of payment in court.
Not accusing them, but stating the fact that our votes are too important to entrust to any outside party, no matter who or what it is. (Which is also why I think "open source" [available to view by all, though not necessarily open for o
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