Flopper
Diamond Member
Apparently, the voters feel the risk is insignificant compared to the 20 million dollars+ in saving so far, the convince, and increased voter turnout. Voter approval of voting by mail stands at 85%.Checking a signature only takes a second or so. It's a cursor inspection but it does the job just a well as the 80 year old volunteer at a polling place checking a 5 to 10 year old drivers license.The signature on all ballots are checked. The first step in processing is to checked the signature on the outside of envelope against the signature on file in the voter registration record to make sure they match. If they do not match, the ballot is not processed and returned to the voter. Any registered voter may visit the county registrar's office to watch ballot processing.A ballot is sent to each registered voter and it can't be forwarded. Voter registration rolls are purged by the registrar. The voter must sign the ballot using the same signature as on the voter registration. Any registered voter may challenge a ballot or a registration.
So you're saying they don't know unless someone happens to get the signature verified. Sounds a bit flaky to me.
Unlike election day voting where ballots must processed in just hours, most mail ballots are received a number days before election day allowing more time for processing.
I don't care how many days there are, as an example CO cast 2.569 million ballots in 2012, there is now way to physically check every ballot and do it properly.
Just sounds like an invitation for fraud to me, but if they're happy with it, what ever.