RE: Another Tactic? Absentee ballots

["Paul Tiger" <tigerp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ralph,

You snipped off part of my reply. I said that people should hand carry their
ballots back in because we can't trust the USPS.
Ballots that were sent long before the election are still arriving at the
clerk's office. Voters are saying that they sent ballots as long as ten days
before the elections and the clerk is just getting them, or still hasn't
seen them.

The BIGGEST breakdown in mail ballot elections is the postal service.
Absentee balloting is the same as mail-in balloting.

Paul Tiger

-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Shnelvar [mailto:ralphs@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 4:40 AM
To: paul.tiger@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Another Tactic? Absentee ballots

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:23:02 -0700, you wrote:

>PT> I like this idea, if we could make it work in a voting population as
>PT>large as Boulder County's. You might be able to pull this off in a
>PT>smaller county. In areas east of midwest counties and townships are
>PT>rather small and twisting the arms of the clerks is easier to do with
>PT>such a protest.

This is my first posting here.

Paul Tiger and I - both Libertarians - often take opposing views.
Unsurprisingly, this is going to happen again.

[snip]

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>paul tiger
>
>Mcgrath, Bob___PI_Mkt wrote:
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[snip]

>>
>>One idea posted there was to urge all voters to obtain absentee ballots to
>>bypass the machines.  Thoughts?

I suggest that people read Sunny Maynard's (Green Party) and my article in
the Sunday Denver Post:
        www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~75~1734196,00.html

The last thing that we need is to promote mail-in balloting.  While
electronic voting offers high-tech opportunities for fraud, mail-in
balloting offers both high-tech and low-tech opportunities for fraud.

Ralph Shnelvar