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Post by Marshall on Oct 29, 2020 14:14:37 GMT -5
Just got back from casting an oily ballot. I need to do that because I'm a judge on Tuesday.  Place was crowded. Small line outside. Just 4 people. Got in quick. But it's a small room at Village Hall for the whole village (77,000). Lotta people voting early. I watched the "judge" check in the guy in front of me. When she checked him in, she said, "You requested a mail-in ballot. Did you bring it with you?" He said, "No, I never got it." - Which is my nightmare. I saw her flip to the pink book. He's only filling out a Provisional Ballot. I don't now what the State does with those. They don't get fed immediately into the computer, because there's a possibility of the person voting twice then. I know the judges Collect the Provisional Ballots and put them with the locked box with the machines when we're done. I don't know how they are eventually reconciled. That's above my pay grade. There was an optional hands-on class we judges could take, but all the time slots were filled. I think I need to study the material I received, before the big day. |
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Post by brucemacneill on Oct 29, 2020 14:23:16 GMT -5
Marshall, you're in Illinois. Check the death certificates and if there is one for the voter just mark it as Democrat and no one will ever know.
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Post by Cornflake on Oct 29, 2020 14:50:50 GMT -5
Here, if you receive a mail-in ballot but don't get it in on time, you can cast a provisional ballot in person on election day. It's counted only if they confirm that they haven't received a mailed ballot for you.
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Post by kbcolorado on Oct 29, 2020 15:24:21 GMT -5
A little jealous of you folks that can be done voting in a day. I have most of my ballots in, should finish tomorrow.
Cheers
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Post by Marshall on Oct 29, 2020 15:48:40 GMT -5
Here, if you receive a mail-in ballot but don't get it in on time, you can cast a provisional ballot in person on election day. It's counted only if they confirm that they haven't received a mailed ballot for you. That's the party line. But I think the provisional ballots are entered at a place higher up the food chain than the individual poling places. But I've got to study up on that a little to know for sure how they are handled. All I know now is it's an extra procedure at the poling place. |
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Post by John B on Oct 29, 2020 18:32:31 GMT -5
I believe you are referring to polling places, Marshall, as I assume you will be a poll worker working the polls, not a pole worker working the poles.
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Post by Cornflake on Oct 29, 2020 19:00:58 GMT -5
"I believe you are referring to polling places, Marshall, as I assume you will be a poll worker working the polls, not a pole worker working the poles."
If it's the latter, he's either an exotic dancer or the Wichita Lineman.
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Post by Marshall on Oct 29, 2020 22:35:40 GMT -5
Here, if you receive a mail-in ballot but don't get it in on time, you can cast a provisional ballot in person on election day. It's counted only if they confirm that they haven't received a mailed ballot for you. That's the party line. But I think the provisional ballots are entered at a place higher up the food chain than the individual poling places. But I've got to study up on that a little to know for sure how they are handled. All I know now is it's an extra procedure at the poling place. There must be a way to electronically signify this is a "provisional ballot" because everyone that votes early does it electronically. And the last station when the votes are put into the big computer in the sky, there's no differentiation between how they are handled. So there must be some code on the computer input card that puts it on hold on the vote until the Provisional and the Mail-in ballot is squared away. |
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Post by Russell Letson on Oct 30, 2020 0:36:46 GMT -5
When we early-voted today, part of the process was to "spoil" the absentee ballots we'd been sent when I thought that we were going that route. It took an extra few minutes, but once the spoiling was done (it required a particular computer/judge's station), we voted in the same manner, with the same ballots and reader machines that we would have used on election day--and our votes will be counted with the rest of them. So no delay while the absentee paper is processed and put through the scanners. (C. was determined that our bit be on record ASAP.)
I have to say that Minnesota's procedures are simultaneously open (no piles-of-documents to produce) and thorough--the absentee ballots are tagged and tracked and audited and accounted for. And everybody we dealt with (including the woman answering questions over the phone at the county auditor's office, which manages this process) was pleasant and helpful. But that's been my experience with every encounter with our local bureaucrats since we moved here. I'm sure there must be assholes and goldbricks and jacks-in-office, but so far, so good for me.
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Post by Marshall on Oct 30, 2020 8:33:04 GMT -5
Yes, if you received an absentee ballot but did not fill it out, you're supposed to bring it to the polllling place when you vote and turn it in blank. Then you can do a regular vote. If you don't bring your mail-in ballot to the polling place you will be filling out a provisional ballot, so you don't get to vote twice (unlike what our POTUS said to do).
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