Florida absentee ballots: already a problem

Don't fill it out. Go vote in person.

Can you still vote in person if you requested the absentee ballot?

Pull the quarter from between your knees and call someone who cares.

Yes. They'll probably tell you to shred the ballot. I say take it with you when you vote and tell them.

Privacy sleeves aren't supposed to encase the ballot like an envelope.

A voting sleeve is not required. See page 2:

What is the “secrecy sleeve”? What if I forgot to put my ballot into the sleeve before mailing it back? There is a folded piece of paper in your VBM packet labeled “Secrecy Sleeve”. Follow the instructions printed on it for completing and returning your ballot. When you are ready to mail your ballot, you can place it inside this secrecy sleeve for added security.

However, using the sleeve is not required. If you have returned your ballot without the secrecy sleeve, do not worry, your ballot will be processed just the same.

[quote] Florida absentee ballots: already a problem

[quote] I just got mine. There are all instructions about putting it in the privacy sleeve but they don't include a privacy sleeve (and the ballot looks too big for the one they have in the diagram.)

[quote] I heard on the news that some state isn't accepting them if they are not in the privacy sleeve.

[quote] Here we go. It will be a bumpy ride.

So, the entire country should gauge the voting experience on your ambigous, fictional account?

Vote in person. Look on the elections website for instructions about your absentee ballot.

OP is not good at reading, but very quick at ranting?

No disrespect OP, but if it comes down to FL again, we're fucked, because you can be sure that DeSantis & all his crooked little minions are doing everything possible to cheat.

Just call them and tell them they didn't include the privacy sleeve and they'll either send you one or void that ballot and send you a whole new one.

OP, I was confused at first also, before I realized that the privacy sleeve and the instruction sheet are one and the same thing. The ballot goes inside the two page (folded ) instruction sheet (privacy sleeve).

yes r7 see Gore Vs. Bush 2000.

The ballot didn't include that info from r6. But I guess it will be ok if they say a sleeve isn't required. Some states are requiring them so this could become a point of dispute.

I think they sent out an old instruction sheet.

I voted in CA previously and there was a small bubble sheet you'd color in your choice, put that in a sleeve and send it in. That is what they have drawn on the instruction sheet for this ballot. They must have voted that way in FL before and never changed the instructions.

r12 I don't think the green sheet is meant to be a sleeve. It isn't what is described in the instructions.

Funny how triggering this thread was for some posters.

You can still vote in person just bring your ballot with you when you go to vote.

Florida is a mess.

[quote] Funny how triggering this thread was for some posters.

Its not triggering. It's just thats its all fiction. You always "just happen to be" involved in whatever generic situation you present.

People should vote in person.

How do you know r16? My history doesn't indicate that.

Another problem is the ballot says use black pen but they instructions say black or blue pen.

So will the blue pen ones count? Will the computer read them?

OP, it's possible things are different from one county to another, but in my county, the instructions sheet is folded in half, and along one edge, there is a red band with the words, "Insert Ballot Here," printed along the band. And the only restrictions are to not use a red pen or pencil.

I didn't get that r20. I got the ballot and then a green piece of paper that says sleeve instructions.

[quote]Another problem is the ballot says use black pen but they instructions say black or blue pen. So will the blue pen ones count? Will the computer read them?

And this is what separates Dems from Reps. Reps want the ballot thrown out on this "technicality" even if it's clear you voted for Biden. Dems want it counted if it's for Trump or Biden. Reps are looking for every fucking way to discount votes when they're clearly meant for Biden.

[place] OP, it's possible things are different from one county to another, but in my county, the instructions sheet is folded in half, and along one edge, there is a red band with the words, "Insert Ballot Here," printed along the band. And the only restrictions are to not use a red pen or pencil.

You amazingly have transported yourself to another country and voting structure. Is there any country where you haven't lived and voted?

No matter the topic, you always just happen to be there and placed in the center of the topic at hand. It could be ANYTHING. Here's an example:

"Cow are attacking people in Barbados." You would undoubtedly respond. Of course, you just happen to be on DL, in Barbados and coincidentally were hiking the trail just two hours earlier before the cow attacked.

[quote] OP, it's possible things are different from one county to another, but in my county, the instructions sheet is folded in half, and along one edge, there is a red band with the words, "Insert Ballot Here," printed along the band. And the only restrictions are to not use a red pen or pencil.

You amazingly have transported yourself to another country and voting structure. Is there any country where you haven't lived and voted?

No matter the topic, you always just happen to be there and placed in the center of the topic at hand. It could be ANYTHING. Here's an example:

"Cows are attacking people in Barbados." You would undoubtedly respond. Of course, you just happen to be on DL, in Barbados and coincidentally were hiking the trail just two hours earlier before the cow attacked.

I’m ignoring OP just for shits and giggles.

That should be a fourth DL option, S/G.

Vote in person unless you truly cannot due to old age of disability. Please.

Old age or disability

R24, you seem to have misread my post and think I said "country", when in fact I said "county." Also, I get the impression you think I am the OP. I am not. I have never started a thread, nor have I ever claimed to be anywhere (other than in the county in which mail in ballots are as I described in my posts above).

examples r24?

I don't sign my posts. How do you think you know everything I'm posting (other than my history which doesn't show what you said.)

and yes this time you aren't even quoting me the op as r20 said.

I guess you are delusional.

R15 - Florida has been doing Vote-by-Mail for years and is very good at.

Florida 100% cleaned up their election act after the Bush-Gore mess.

I guess r24 checked out. I was kind of fascinated by how he thinks he knows what I post.

I went to my Massachusetts polling place for the primary with my ballot filled out. I thought I could just drop it off, but they destroyed it and made me use the usual ballot process.

The pandemic makes it all so weird this election.

So Trump was right?

r33 could be. Especially the blue ink thing could turn into an issue to contest.

New York too.

I'm voting in person to avoid this mess.

Aw, SHIT! There goes our element of surprise . . .

R34 - What is the "blue ink thing". I have not heard this one.

r38 on the ballot it says you have to use black ink but on the instruction sheet it says you can use black or blue ink. So it makes me wonder if the blue ink will be read by the computer.

So this is a blue ink versus black ink matters issue?