@Cyber Liberty@mystery-ak @libertybele GEORGIA AND OTHER STATES:
BALLOT ENVELOPES - FROM WHERE DO THEY COME?
A ballot is creased to put it in the mailing envelope. The crease becomes definite as the ballot travels two or more days to get to the courthouse. Now, if the ballot is barely creased, it was put in the envelope by a voter at the election administrator's office, then placed in the stack of envelopes to go to the Judge of the Early Voting Ballot board - never goes into the actual mail. A voter is allowed to do this. Say you were leaving town, be back after the election, so you go to that office and fill out the mail ballot. So, a definite fold or a minor fold is still valid until it is proved not to be valid in other ways.
What I think is not understood is how mail ballots get to the Board that examines them.
Ballot envelopes don't just appear out of nowhere. Boxes of ballot envelopes don't come from a truck backed up where the Board meets. Joe Blow doesn't walk in with a plastic bag of ballot envelopes.
Every mail ballot envelope is sent to a voter from the Elections Administrator's office in that county.Every completed mail ballot envelope comes to the Elections Administrator's office in that county.There are no plastic bags full of completed mail ballots down at Fred's Fishing Pond. If there is one, it will not be accepted by the Election Administrator. Every mail ballot that was mailed to a voter, has a trail.
HERE IS THE BY MAIL SYSTEM IN EVERY COUNTY:
SYSTEM ONE: Some states send mail ballots to every voter.
SYSTEM TWO: Some states send a mail ballot to any voter who sends in an application for a mail ballot.
SYSTEM THREE: Some states send mail ballots to voters who sends in an application for a ballot IF they meet certain qualifications: going to be absent, ill, handicapped, elderly.
CAVEAT: When an application for a mail ballot comes in, the Election Administrators' Office checks to see if this voter is on the master voter list. If not, no ballot is sent. A list of voters who got a mail ballot sent is kept.
Now, all above systems have mailed ballots to these voters.
*Sending mail ballots to all voters, causes this: Some ballot envelopes come back to the voter administrator as undeliverable. A note is made on this voter that the ballot came back. If this keeps happening for an amount of time, this voter never shows up to vote, this voter is placed on a list and after a period of time, is removed from the voter list.
VOTER GETS BALLOT:
The voter may burn up the ballot - voter's choice.
Voter marks ballot, puts it in security envelope. Puts security envelope into mailing envelope. Signs the outside of the mailing envelope, some also require address where the voter signs on the back.
Mailing envelopes with ballots inside security envelopes go to the Election Administrator's office. Here is where the work starts:
Voter's name is checked as having voted by mail. This goes on the master voting list and is on the voting precinct list where this voter votes. The Judge of the Precinct sees this voter has voted by mail so voter cannot vote again at the precinct.
All these checked mail ballot envelopes go in locked boxes to the Board who evaluates the mail ballots. LOCKED METAL BOXES. The plastic bag of ballots down at the fishing hole, does not make its way into one of the LOCKED METAL BOXES.
CHECKING SIGNATURES
How does this happen? This is how:
There is a Republican and a Democrat who work together to check mail ballots. According to the size of the county, there may be many of these two person/two Party couples working on mail ballots.
METHOD ONE: This county sends out mail ballots when they get an
application for a mail ballot. This application has the voter's signature on it. This signature is compared to the signature on the back of the mail ballot envelope. If they match, the ballot passes the signature test.
METHOD TWO: This county sends mail ballots to all voters - no application involved. The signature on back of mailing envelope is compared to the voter's signature when he/she became a voter.
HAVE A LOVELY DAY - AFTER WRITING THIS, I AM HAVING A DIET COKE.
