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rurallib

(63,172 posts)
Sat Nov 3, 2018, 06:07 PM Nov 2018

Making calls this morning, chasing absentee ballots and

one woman told me she'd changed her mind and decided to vote at the polls Tuesday, so she threw her absentee ballot away!



I gave her the auditor's telephone number but warned her that if she can't find that ballot, she probably won't get to vote.

One vote to a customer folks!

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Making calls this morning, chasing absentee ballots and (Original Post) rurallib Nov 2018 OP
She can vote. madaboutharry Nov 2018 #1
Hmmm -- thanks. All these years all I have ever heard is that rurallib Nov 2018 #3
She may be given a provisional ballot madaboutharry Nov 2018 #4
that is sure better than I thought would happen rurallib Nov 2018 #5
Saintly work. TY. Crutchez_CuiBono Nov 2018 #2

madaboutharry

(41,315 posts)
1. She can vote.
Sat Nov 3, 2018, 06:28 PM
Nov 2018

If you lose it, threw it away, or if it never arrived you sign a document and they let you vote. That information is on the Sec. of State website.

rurallib

(63,172 posts)
3. Hmmm -- thanks. All these years all I have ever heard is that
Sat Nov 3, 2018, 07:09 PM
Nov 2018

you must surrender the absentee at the polling place to be able to vote.

Hopefully the auditor and the voter were able to work things out.

madaboutharry

(41,315 posts)
4. She may be given a provisional ballot
Sat Nov 3, 2018, 07:37 PM
Nov 2018

since they would need to verify the mail in one wasn’t sent back.

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