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brooklynite

(93,873 posts)
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 11:54 AM Sep 2020

How to track your ballot like a UPS package

Washington Post

Want to make sure your ballot counts? Track it online like a UPS delivery.

That’s now possible across much of America, in part because of the coronavirus pandemic.

I don’t often get emails from my state government, so I was curious about one recently asking me to check out California’s new election website, Where’s My Ballot. There, I typed in my name, birthday and Zip code — and a minute later, I had signed up for personalized voting updates. Now I’ll get a text when my ballot is in the mail, as it’s on its way back to election officials and, eventually, counted.
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I did a double take: For once, there’s a new use for technology that might build confidence in our democracy, rather than tear it down.

Turns out, California isn’t alone. Gearing up for the largest vote-by-mail election in American history, a patchwork of local officials in all but about seven states have invested in some form of ballot-tracking tech. It will be available in the District of Columbia, most of Virginia, Maryland, Colorado and North Carolina and parts of Florida, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon and South Carolina, just to name a few. To find out if you’ve got access where you vote, check out The Washington Post’s handy interactive guide to voting in 2020.
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How to track your ballot like a UPS package (Original Post) brooklynite Sep 2020 OP
I just signed up for Ballottrax in San Mateo County. musette_sf Sep 2020 #1
Thanks. I'll have to check my state. I just verified my registration is current. captain queeg Sep 2020 #2
My county in Florida has tracking. The ballot envelope has a bar code...I tested it out mitch96 Sep 2020 #3

musette_sf

(10,184 posts)
1. I just signed up for Ballottrax in San Mateo County.
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 11:56 AM
Sep 2020

Registration is good, and ballots will be on the way in a few weeks.

mitch96

(13,821 posts)
3. My county in Florida has tracking. The ballot envelope has a bar code...I tested it out
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 12:08 PM
Sep 2020

The last local election. Filled it out and signed the outside of the ballot per instructions. You have to sign over the flap so it shows right away if it was tampered with..I then DROVE 20 min down to the Supervisor if Elections building.. Where they actually count the vote.
A person showed me where to put the ballot after checking that I signed the ballot. The next day I went to the web site, put in my info......Lo and behold it stated that my ballot was received. Over the course of a few days I watched it pass thru the system till it said MY VOTE WAS COUNTED!! Yahoo the system worked as planned.
Lets hope it works Nov 3rd...
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