Admiral Rockwell Tory
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- Nov 1, 2015
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You seriously do not understand how absentee ballots work. I suspect you have never voted absentee in your life. Am I right?A mail in ballot without a signature on the envelope is supposed to be automatically invalid. Therefore valid mail in ballots are not anonymous for whoever opens that envelope and checks that signature can clearly see how that person voted. So since the person mailing in their ballot gives up their anonymity i think the ballot itself should be signed and notarized to ensure that nobody voted with that ballot but the prson authorized to do so.
Those who do not wish to give up their anonymity will vote in person.
If I am a poll worker and I verify the mail-in ballot signature matches the voter registration I then separate the ballot from the envelope and submit the ballot to be counted.
My signature has never appeared on a ballot, and I am ex-military, so I voted absentee often while on active duty in fact, in 1984, I voted absentee for Ronald Reagan because I was in Virginia for the election, lived in South Carolina and was still registered in Alabama. In 1988, I was back in Alabama for duty, and in 1992 I was registered and voted at my local precinct in Florida. I voted registered in Virgina in 1996, but changed it back to Florida and voted by election time in 1996 as I did in the infamous 2000 election and in 2004. By 2008 I was registered in Kentucky and voted there until 2022 when I moved to Tennessee, after voting in Kentucky's primary that Spring.
If you were to poll most of the ex-military types on here, you will find most vote absentee, if they vote at all, while on active duty. My hopefully Army prospective son-in-law is registered in Wisconsin, even though he is from NY originally.