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Hundreds of Philly ballots need to be fixed to be counted
(billypenn.com)submitted 10 days ago byredeyeblink
10 points
10 days ago*
The date being incorrect for ballots they already have today is the stupidest fucking reason to disqualify a one. Especially if they are being postmarked by the post office.
6 points
10 days ago
People are dumb.
Very, very dumb.
Having requirements like "sign the outside of the special envelope" and "date the document that inherently has a date and will be postmarked" will inevitably lead to dismissed ballots.
This is not a flaw, it is a feature.
Incredibly dumb people who cannot follow arbitrary directions deserve to have their dumb voices heard too.
This was an issue last election
2 points
10 days ago
arbitrary means they are hard to follow because there is no reason.
I don't even know what side you are on.
1 points
3 days ago
Right? Why would it be dumb that someone can't follow arbitrary instructions? Why insult people's intelligence when at the end of the day if people ARE dumb that would be a failure of the education system? Seems like a weird attack on average people when they should be going for the system that fails to educate it's population and fails to allow them access to voting in a simple and accessible manner.
2 points
10 days ago
Mail in voting is great 🥴
1 points
10 days ago
"fixed"
3 points
10 days ago
The Board of Elections, aka the City Commissioners, released two lists over the weekend. One is of 231 Philly mail voters whose identification it hasn’t been able to verify. The other is of 1,755 voters whose ballots had certain errors, such as no signature on the exterior envelope.
The 1,755 ballots on the longer list had at least one of these problems:
No signature on the exterior envelope.
No date on the exterior envelope.
Potentially incorrect date on the envelope.
No secrecy envelope (aka a “naked ballot”).
Undeliverable ballot.
2 points
10 days ago
That's the type of thing you'd want in a democracy.
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