My vote by mail in California

[Fresh_Start]

was mailed on saturday before election day
finally recorded in database as received (which I assume means my vote was finally tallied)


At least 1.2MM votes have been counted since election day:
Increase in votes by candidate for candidates starting with at least 10K votes on election day:

Trump +276K
Kasich +47K
Cruz +38K
Cason +15K
Gilmore + 2K
Clinton +422K
Sanders +387K
Johnson +2K

[bonemachine]

1. Lucky you

My vote by mail in Oregon was disqualified because they didn't like my signature, and I didn't get the notification from my PO Box until the day after I could do anything about it

[Fresh_Start]

2. I'm sorry

that is disappointing.

I was thinking of changing to voting in person instead of by mail to eliminate the wait and frustration.
Would that be possible for you for future elections?

[bonemachine]

3. No.

We don't have both here.

For the most part I am in favor of mail-in balloting, but it's terribly frustrating when it doesn't work right.

Edit: I see the confusion - I typed California mirroring you when I meant Oregon.

[NWCorona]

4. Bummer

[politicaljunkie41910]

5. At least you know that means the system isn't rigged. Your vote has been counted. Congrats.

[Fresh_Start]

6. I thought it was interesting how long it took for the VBM to be counted

I may switch back to voting in person....it feels more involved

[Retrograde]

7. If you mailed in on Saturday

it probably arrived on Tuesday or even Wednesday when they were probably pretty busy.

In my county, Santa Clara, they verify the signatures of the mail ballots as they come in, up to election day. That's when they open the valid ballots received to date and count them. After 8 PM they start getting the totals from the individual polling places (all the mail ballots, provisional ballots, and any paper ballots have to be physically transported to the registrar's office to be counted). After they get the machine tallies they can start in with the new physical ballots that came in at the office and the individual polling places.

Many DUers advocate for hand-counted paper ballots. Ours are scanned, but for more than half the voters paper and a human are involved in the process, and that slows things down.

It usually takes 3-5 days for mine to show as "counted" after it's marked as "received"

[George Eliot]

8. The vote was on time. If signature issues, their responsibility to call and check.

Mu state requests phone # on envelope. To me, signature issues can be arbitrary.

[Demsrule86]

9. So Sanders is losing now by a larger margin. nt