Something to be aware of when voting

[Allen]

Just passing this along. I believe it is true but may depend upon where the mark is on the ballot. Anyone who does the marking will know what to do.

This probably won't occur in solid red and blue states but in swing states where every vote counts, your ballot could be rejected or not counted. I assume this could be done with mail in ballots as well. The voter would never know if their ballot is being marked up or just tossed in the trash after being received.

Whether completely true or not it just makes common sense to start with a clean ballot.

Enjoy. Another leg of corruption.

"ALERT - WHEN YOU VOTE IN PERSON BE AWARE OF THIS!
This is very interesting and needs to be checked....
A very reliable good friend of mine just finished pollworker training and she texted me this.....Just finished Poll Manager training! I passed all the classes. I want you all to know something...
if you are checking in at the polls and they happen to write anything on your ballot before they give it to you to put in the voting machine...a letter, a checkmark, a star, an R or a D any writing of any kind...please request a new ballot.
Your ballot could be disqualified if it is written on.
Please be on the lookout for this type of behavior.
Shared from a friend
I'm passing this on..."

[lyman]

my district keeps it relatively simple,

while not required apparently, I still get asked for ID,
I am given a card, form a pile in plain view, walk to a booth, make my selection with a black ink pen, and walk it to a machine where I insert it, not the poll worker,

get my 'I Voted' sticker and leave,

easy peasy

[Allen]

my district keeps it relatively simple,

while not required apparently, I still get asked for ID,
I am given a card, form a pile in plain view, walk to a booth, make my selection with a black ink pen, and walk it to a machine where I insert it, not the poll worker,

get my 'I Voted' sticker and leave,

easy peasy

Similar here but I think ID is required here. No more booths here--just tables with little partitions separating voters. The blank ballots are handed to us. If a worker put a small mark on the ballot at that time how many of us would think anything of it? What if there were 2 piles (marked and unmarked). Who would notice or think anything of a small mark?

[Oyaji]

Kinda like marking cards in a poker game. Conniving SOBs!!

[Mark in Ottawa]

It is interesting to note the differences from a Canadian federal election. In our case, all voters must show ID including proof that they live in the electoral district. In most cases voters produce a Voters Card that has been sent to them ahead of the election. The ballot itself has a removable counterfoil that is initialled by the person running the particular polling station (called a Deputy Returning Officer or DRO). Before the voter puts the ballot in the box, the counterfoil is removed and checked by the DRO to confirm that it is his or her initials. The counterfoils are saved and counted later as a control. Ballots are paper and a thick pencil is provided. At the federal level everything is done by hand including counting of the ballots. Each Party is entitled to appoint a "scrutineer" who will normally sit at the table while the ballots are counted to confirm that everything is OK. The one time that I was a DRO, I showed each ballot to the scrutineers before putting them in a pile for counting. The scrutineers can only look but at no time can they touch the ballots. This system appears to work well,

A recent example of how the system can clog up is a by-election in the Province of Quebec last month in which for some strange reason, some group decided to field a very large number of individual candidates. I think that there were 67 candidates, most of whom only got half a dozen votes. Nevertheless, the counting did not finish until 3:00 am.

[Allen]

Just received this. You can't put any form of corruption past them.

This would be way less noticeable than something scribbled on the ballot.

What they're not stating is the small dot could be most anywhere on the ballot (someone else's box) causing it to be disqualified.

[Oyaji]

Just received this. You can't put any form of corruption past them.

This would be way less noticeable than something scribbled on the ballot.

What they're not stating is the small dot could be most anywhere on the ballot (someone else's box) causing it to be disqualified.

Sneaky bastards!

[Allen]

BTW as far fetched as this sounds it must be true. My wife tried to pass it on using Facebook and it was flagged and not published.