Hmm...registration scam or just timing? [View all]
My son got a job in Boston a couple of months ago. Shortly after he left he requested an absentee ballot from the state of Connecticut, as technically he was still living here, license was here, car registered here.
A couple weeks ago he went to some big music festival in upstate New York. He said someone was going around registering voters. He said he didn't live in NY, but they told him it didn't matter, they just needed his name and address and he'd be registered in that state...and he gave them his new address in Boston, even though his license said CT.
Well, he got the absentee ballot mailed here to our CT address, but at about the same time he got a letter at his MA address saying he was registered. I haven't seen it, so I can't verify how authentic it looks, but something seems fishy.
I advised him to mail in the CT ballot anyway, since it matches his ID, and then go vote in MA on election day. My theory is, if he got scammed at this rock festival, he won't be on the MA voter rolls anyway, so at least he'll have voted in CT. But if it's legit, and CT verifies his new address, that vote won't count, but at least he knows he voted in MA.
Any thoughts? What would you have advised him?
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