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yellowdogintexas

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12. We have a great vote by mail too.

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Reply #3)

Sun Sep 22, 2019, 10:51 AM

Sep 2019

Over 65; disabled; out of county voters can request vote by mail ballots in January. Once the form is returned, the ballots will be sent for each election that year to every voter who returned the request. My neighbor calls it "kitchen table voting"

The state Democratic party sends ballot requests automatically to known Democratic voters (those who vote in Democratic primaries.) Use of this ballot does away with the problems for voters who do not have photo ID also

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so I went to training on our new voting machines here in Tarrant Co [View all] yellowdogintexas Sep 2019 OP

We have the equivalent here in Santa Fe. PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2019 #1

Surprisingly, Texas has one of the best Early Voting yellowdogintexas Sep 2019 #11

I saw a demo of the same machines in Williamson Co Mersky Sep 2019 #2

That beats our system where you have to be in the right precinct. although... TreasonousBastard Sep 2019 #3

Having to be in the right precinct is yet another way to reduce voting. PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2019 #5

We have a great vote by mail too. yellowdogintexas Sep 2019 #12

Some of our precincts are far enough apart that getting yellowdogintexas Sep 2019 #13

If the display says "Spasibo za vash golos" after you vote you might want to worry. CentralMass Sep 2019 #4

we tiptonic Sep 2019 #7

One question: Does the voted ballot get printed with a bar code on it? hedda_foil Sep 2019 #6

that would be my question too,,,,,is the name printed or some secret code? questionseverything Sep 2019 #8

It's not either/or, but both. The votes are printed out but the bar code gets counted. hedda_foil Sep 2019 #10

counting the paper in many locations would take forever! yellowdogintexas Sep 2019 #15

so it is just another "trust me system" questionseverything Sep 2019 #18

yes. It looks more like the square things that yellowdogintexas Sep 2019 #14

It's he issue is that it's the barcodes that are counted and there's no way to tell if they're right hedda_foil Sep 2019 #16

Since the choices are printed an audit would be feasible yellowdogintexas Sep 2019 #17

except by the time it is challenged, the chain of custody is broken questionseverything Sep 2019 #19

Wow! Biggest complaint from our town administrators IndyOp Sep 2019 #9