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« on: November 02, 2006, 12:57:34 PM »
« edited: November 02, 2006, 01:40:43 PM by thefactor »

I submitted an application for an absentee ballot for Maryland on Oct. 17, the deadline was Oct. 31. They said I would get the ballot in 10 days. After 10 business, I called them, they said they had mailed it out on Oct. 24. As of today, still no ballot. I'm not paying $50 for priority mail if it comes tommorrow or Monday. If this happened to me, what about all the other Maryland residents going to school in other states, who submitted their applications closer to the deadline? Their system is broken.
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« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2006, 01:12:56 PM »


I´ve heard of stories where a letter came to the recipient about 50 years after it was sent. Relax, maybe your post service in Maryland is crap ...
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« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2006, 01:17:53 PM »

I got mine a day or two after they were sent out. Smiley
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« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2006, 01:42:24 PM »


I´ve heard of stories where a letter came to the recipient about 50 years after it was sent. Relax, maybe your post service in Maryland is crap ...

I won't be surprised if it comes the day after the election. Of course at that point it no longer counts, lol. Smiley

I really wonder if there are many others in the same situation though.
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« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2006, 02:28:51 PM »

Even in Mississippi I got mine only a day or two later than I asked.

I think I got mine in just in the nick of time.
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« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2006, 02:51:57 PM »

Here's to hoping you get your ballot on time.

If it ends up being a widespread problem, hopefully a judicial order can be put in to allow ballots to count if they are postmarked one day after they were received if they were received after the election. Sounds like the state probably has a huge backlog of ballots to send out and are understaffed; certainly not an uncommon situation for state government.
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« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2006, 03:02:58 PM »

Once again, Republicans are trying to deny voting rights to millions of americans...

</insert name of democratic hack here>

teehee

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« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2006, 06:39:42 PM »

This is why I don't vote absentee. Smiley I vote early instead.
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« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2006, 08:50:09 PM »

This is why I don't vote absentee. Smiley I vote early instead.

Unfortunately, not all of us have (or in my case, probably will have) the chance to not vote absentee, let alone early.
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« Reply #9 on: November 03, 2006, 01:05:06 AM »

You could try to find a ride down to MD.  I'm letting a couple friends borrow my car to go vote in NOVA.
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« Reply #10 on: November 03, 2006, 01:16:56 AM »

Ha, that doesn't matter. I was all worked up about it this morning but it doesn't really matter. As Anthony Downs suggests, it might not even be rational to vote at all.
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« Reply #11 on: November 03, 2006, 05:05:19 AM »

I never voted absentee, when I was in college I just registered on campus & voted there on Campus.
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« Reply #12 on: November 03, 2006, 05:27:23 PM »

This is why I don't vote absentee. Smiley I vote early instead.

Unfortunately, not all of us have (or in my case, probably will have) the chance to not vote absentee, let alone early.

Yes, I had to vote absentee once back in 1998, although that worked out. Or are are you referring to the Vote-By-Mail thing?
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« Reply #13 on: November 06, 2006, 01:18:46 AM »

In case anyone cares, my ballot did arrive.

More importantly, I had the wrong idea from talking to the election board worker. It doesn't have to arrive there by tonight, it just has to be postmarked by then. It can arrive up to the second Friday after the election. I apologise to anyone who got the wrong idea about absentee voting from this thread.
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« Reply #14 on: November 06, 2006, 01:21:08 AM »

That's good to know. One more vote for Cardin and O'Malley.
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« Reply #15 on: November 06, 2006, 03:36:47 PM »

The broken system seems to be the US Postal Service.
(Oh, and in Germany, it has to be in by election day, poll closing time. Makes for easier counting.)
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« Reply #16 on: November 06, 2006, 06:46:55 PM »

They were apparently uber behind with everything. My sister's at UMD and just got her voting information in the mail today, so...Good thing you can vote though.
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