Absentee Ballot Warning!!!!!!

[petgoat]

My aunt reports that the absentee ballot in California is printed on
heavy paper and requires not 37 cents but 60 cents worth of postage.

A quick google turns up an abc news story confirming.

"Officials recommend putting the additional postage on the ballot to be sure it arrives."

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=elections&id=3570751

[shanti]

1. really....

i only put a regular stamp on it.

[Cleita]

5. Me too. That's what the instructions said.

Sigh. I guess my vote doesn't count again.

[shanti]

6. i feel sick...

:-( most of the people i know voted absentee. dirty tricks from arnold?

[wryter2000]

9. Me, too

I wondered about it, but it didn't feel too heavy. Damn, damn, damn. If it is too heavy, it'll come back. Probably too late for the election, but at least, if it doesn't come back, I'll know it went through.

[padia]

2. if it comes back

before tuesday you can deliver it to the county clerk or any other polling station.

[mitchtv]

3. of course it will come back wed or thursday

you should know better.I sent mine last week w/37 cents

[Baconfoot]

15. The polling station should be in the same county for practical reasons.

Nobody drives the absentee votes which get turned in at one county to another county at the end of the evening. Hence, turn in your absentee ballot within the county within which you are registered. Otherwise, it will not count.

(They really need to change this!)

[KingFlorez]

4. Is this a stunt?

This could be a fraud to make ballots invalid so Arnold's measures will pass.

[shanti]

7. you should crosspost this on gd

many people never visit the groups and won't know this.

[Journeyman]

8. Be nice if you put the full quote in your post. . .

Officials recommend putting the additional postage on the ballot to be sure it arrives. However, they've made a deal with the post office to accept ballots with less postage and the registrar will make up the difference.

[CountAllVotes]

10. thank you for posting that!

I mailed mine in too and btw vote NO on all of the FAUX propositions - lets embarrass the hell out of the gropenator!!!

Listen to Bernie Ward archives from last night 11/4 - there was an attorney on talking about the election after Barbara Boxer was on. He said voting NO on ALL of the propositions was the BEST THING TO DO!

P.S. I'm glad to know that my vote counts!

:kick:

[petgoat]

11. The full quote

The deal appeared to apply to Santa Clara County only. Perhaps their
ballots are heavier than others, so it's only an issue there. I thought
it was important to err on the side of caution with respect to the rest
of the state.

[cascadiance]

13. Interesting that that would be in a heavily Dem area...

I wonder if that was by design also. Just like putting on the Decision 2004 TV show yesterday a half hour later than what it was scheduled on Dish Network (and perhaps DirectTV as well) so that our PVR's would only grab the first half where Arnold was speaking and not the second half where the opposition was speaking.

There is SO much subtle dirty politics going on with this election!

[shanti]

12. thank you for that!

i sent mine two weeks ago and it didn't come back, so guess it was accepted.

yes!

[JuniperLea]

19. Me too! And my b/f too!

We mailed ours weeks ago with regular postage and they didn't come back.

[jfern]

14. Don't forget

That you may be able to drop it off at a polling place on election day, no postage needed. That is definitely the case for Alameda county.

[Baconfoot]

16. Yup! Just drop it off in the same county where you are registered. NT

[jfern]

24. Yes, if the same rule applies statewide

Then you have until 8 today to drop it off at a polling place in your county.

[Hatchling]

17. That's odd.

My absentee ballot has always been postage paid . Maybe because my area doesn't have a polling place and we always vote absentee?

[xxqqqzme]

18. never mail mine

take it to polling place and drop it off - no standing in line - just walk in 'n drop it off.

[Coastie for Truth]

23. We take it to the Board of Elections on Oakland Rd

[EFerrari]

20. Funny, I saw no such warning on my ballot.

I walk mine in. Hmmmmmmm. This is a good story. Alert the media.

[ronnykmarshall]

21. I mailed mine weeks ago ...

and it hasn't been returned to me.

I'm in LA County ..... is this happening just in San Jose?

[EFerrari]

22. I don't know. Here in SF, my ballot was printed on heavy paper

and no way would 37 have covered the postage. On the other hand, our postage is paid in this county.