Absentee ballots in California need TWO stamps!

[fooj]

When you send your ballot in...make certain that you have two stamps on the envelope. I asked the PO and the actual price for mailing is .63!

FYI...:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Stardust]

1. Grrrrrrr...I'm still pissed that the ballots aren't postage-paid. You'd

be amazed how many stamp-less people are out there. No telling how many will be kicked back for lack of sufficient postage. Sh*t.

[fooj]

2. They don't get kicked back...

they get destroyed. WE really need to get the word out.

[kestrel91316]

3. Well FUCK. I sent mine in last week with only one First Class

stamp on it. It said put first class postage on it, and because it didn't specify how much, I assumed just one stamp would do it.

I just threw my vote away.

Hey - since no vote will be recorded for me, can I go to my polling place and cast a provisional ballot????

[mitchtv]

6. Riverside Co is paying the postage due

Call your registrar and ask

[Stargleamer]

12. I went to the post office and they weighed it . . .

and told me one stamp was all I needed.

[davidinalameda]

13. you didn't

if it says first class, that means first class

they didn't throw it away

[bananas]

4. The postage also depends on how many local elections

Is it 63 cents for everybody? Or for some will it be more? Or less?

"The Secretary of State knew the state portion of the ballot was unusually long for this election,so counties with a large number of local measures on their ballot would have to require their voters to use extra postage to get their ballot back to the county on time," continued Bowen. "A detailed plan to let absentee voters know about the increased postage rates should have been developed two months ago when the November ballot was finalized. Instead counties are scrambling to make deals with the post office to deliver ballots that don't have sufficient postage on them and are sending out additional mail, all wasting valuable tax dollars."
http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_43789.shtml

[slackmaster]

5. fooj, you have done a great public service here

Thanks for pointing it out!

[xxqqqzme]

7. If you put one or no stamps

on the envelope, the absentee vote will be delivered to your Registrar of Voters. The registrar will pay the postage - USPS is not allowed to interfere w/ elections - so says the Orange County ROV.

[davidinalameda]

8. the state is picking up the postage tab

[sfdiva]

9. My Absentee Ballot WAS Postage Paid in San Francisco n/t

[davidinalameda]

11. that's one thing I miss about living in SF

I don't understand why all counties don't do it

[mitchtv]

10. Funny, I weighed my ballots this AM

they were less than an oz. I still put 2 stamps on, but now I'm pissed

[clixtox]

14. I am in Vietnam...

and FedEx sent my absentee ballot back to Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, for FREE! I don't know if they did this for overseas absentee voters elsewhere in the world but they did for those voters from here!