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Just got mine in the mail yesterday after submitting the application weeks ago.
Blatant mismanagement. I smell a rat!!!
Darrell,
Knowing that tens of thousands of people would be voting by mail, I assumed there was going to be this big rush that they were not used to handing. Any reasonable thinking person could have predicted this. Rather than wait for the somebody to mail an application to me, I printed my application, filled it out and mailed it in. About 5 days latter I got my ballot and then filled that out and mailed it back in. That was weeks ago.
If you smell a rat, it was most likely a slow procrastinating rat that waited for the convenience of having the stuff handed to him, knowing he would be one of thousands trying to negotiate the maze ahead.
D.M. you seem very self-righteous. Darrell should not have to do that.
Extending receiving mail in ballots past election day? You got to be kidding! No way should that be allowed!
Don’t like the results? Flood the mail with new mystery ballots!
That is a rat!!!
Given you wouldn’t know the results until after election day it might be hard to flood the mail with new mystery ballots that don’t already have a postmark for election day.
There’s a long standing rule in contract law saying the acceptance of a contract is valid the date it is postmarked. The Indiana Election Commission saying a vote counts if it is postmarked on Election Day is hardly scandalous. A person VOTED on Election Day. The ballot doesn’t say mail this one week early just to make sure it arrives on time. To insist a person’s vote doesn’t count when things well beyond their control, such as when they receive a ballot and the speed at which the United States Postal Service runs, seems rather undemocratic especially with a very arbitrary rule. Most other states say the vote counts as long as it is postmarked by election day.
My husband and I applied, he received his ballot in about 2 weeks, never got mine. I applied again, as requested by them, 3 weeks have gone by since my second application, no ballot received.
I actually like the option of getting the mail-in ballot, filling it out at leisure at home, then just dropping it off. Why haven’t we done that before? Less exposure to the masses at the polling places, no need to stand in line, no germs at the machine, and I get to cast my vote. Just need to make sure people can only drop off their own ballot with ID.
NOTE: I noticed that my party affiliation is printed on the outside of the envelope. That makes me very nervous anyone of the other party could easily lose it in the round file. If I drop it off, FOR SURE no one is putting it in a pile in the corner, or in their trunk, never to be counted!!
Because before, you had to state an explicit/apprpved reason for a mail-in ballot (out-of-town, etc). The reasons you state wouldn’t qualify.
As far as party-id on the outside – considering this is a primary and the contests being between people of the SAME party, any discarded ballot based on party-label wouldn’t have a predictable affect on the outcome – even assuming what you say would happen.
It seems Ms Eldridge’s office was not up to the task, but wants to blame the postal service, the virus, and anything else but herself. None of these obstacles popped up overnight. They should’ve been planned for. Authorize overtime, hire temps, whatever…just get the job done!
It isn’t the best solution, but a simple one that would help would be that instead of saying that the ballots must be received by noon on election day to be counted, to say that they must be postmarked by election day.
COMPLETELY INEXCUSABLE
The website says they must be mailed on or before the 28th in order to be received in time to be counted. I just got my ballot this afternoon, the 29th.