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Meowmee

(5,422 posts)
2. It doesn't say if they received the ballots and they were counted or not
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:23 AM
Yesterday

Just that they were deleted after the election.

jimfields33

(18,765 posts)
11. Yep. I know my request will be deleted this year
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 07:21 AM
Yesterday

because they are only good for four years. I’ll have to request a mail in ballot by 2026 which I will. Most Floridians understand this and will request a new mail in in time for next election.

Silent Type

(6,597 posts)
3. This involves future elections, not recent election. I don't think preordering ballots for future elections are reliabl.
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:25 AM
Yesterday
https://www.nbc-2.com/article/florida-vote-mail-requests-deleted/62922709

Didn’t watch video, hope they made that clear. It’s still unacceptable to make that “error,” but not going to save us from trump.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(26,719 posts)
4. I don't live in Florida.
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:47 AM
Yesterday

I do live in a state that doesn't fuck with the voters, counts all votes, and the like.

But even here, I won't consider a mail-in ballot. Making my way to a real polling place is at least as easy as getting a mail-in ballot, if it arrives, then filling it out, then getting it to a post office. Really, get your lazy ass to an actual polling place.

Otto_Harper

(692 posts)
5. In all fairness, some of us can't get out to a polling place
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 01:03 AM
Yesterday

In my own case, I am very recently home after 3 months in the hospital. I am house-bound, and my own mobility is measured in feet to 10s of feet. Without the mail service, I would have been unable to vote at all.

RockRaven

(16,251 posts)
6. Lazy ass? How about you demand your state government serve all people?
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 01:29 AM
Yesterday

Here in my state, getting a mail-in ballot is DECIDEDLY easier than getting to a polling place, for everyone.

As it should be for everyone in other states, regardless of how much they need it; wanting or preferring or even indifference is sufficient cause -- because voting should be default accessible to all.

lostnfound

(16,625 posts)
8. Yeah, buy an f'ing plane ticket to get home for election day
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 02:55 AM
Yesterday

So what if you’re…
Broke or
In college midterms or
Taking care of your sick parents or
In hospice or
Whatever else makes people need absentee ballots.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(26,719 posts)
12. Actually, people used to do that, buy a plane ticket to get home
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 09:34 AM
22 hrs ago

for election day.

Back when all states had election day only voting, and you had to be 21, so college students weren't voting. And back then getting an absentee ballot was almost impossible.

hlthe2b

(106,298 posts)
10. Jeebus. You owe an apology to all the "lazy asses" in your words that are house-bound! Good gawd.
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 05:42 AM
Yesterday

Not to mention those who for any number of extremely understandable reasons CAN NOT vote in person.

Deuxcents

(19,665 posts)
7. I live in Florida n after reading this, I checked
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 01:32 AM
Yesterday

With the county elections board on line. My mail in ballot was sent, received, and counted. It has my voting info n it’s public information. I could check my neighbors, if I wanted to.

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