Voting and Voting by Mail

I've been seeing many people making foolish, uniformed, ignorant comments about how people vote, but particularly about the absentee voting process. In the USA, in particular.

SO . . .

Some Useful FACTS about voter registration, and the absentee voter balloting process:

Ballots are NOT handed out. Requests to have ballots sent (the "Absentee Ballot application") to people are.

EACH AND EVERY ONE of any blank absentee ballot application are uniquely numbered.

ANY person receiving blank absentee ballot application is REQUIRED BY LAW to verify and document (providing the recipient's name, address and source of verification) for each individual application released by the Town Clark of the municipality to the recipient.

ANY person distributing absentee ballot applications to other people is REQUIRED BY LAW to submit to the Town Clerk's office the name, address, date of birth AND vouch for the following:

• Recipient is a citizen of the United States of America.
• Recipient will be at least 18 years old on or before the next Election Day.
• Recipient is a resident of the state AND his or her legal address
• Recipient has not been convicted of a disenfranchising felony, or, if so, is eligible to register to vote

ALL of these criteria - incidentally - one must affirm when registering to vote . . . PLUS showing documentation affirming your legal address.

Back to the Absentee Ballot Process:

IF someone has provided someone else a ballot application request THAT PERSON GIVING YOU a form MUST provide the town clerk's office those affirmations, PLUS the recipient's individual's date of birth in advance. The name, address, and from what source the info was affirmed (such as a photo I'd, like a driver's license or official state id) MUST be provided to the Town Clerk's office who authorized the distribution of those forms.

SO . . . it ain't a sloppy process. There's a lot of detail required IN ADVANCE before an actual ballot is sent out.

So, um, for those idjots who ignorantly claim ballots are being handed out willy nilly with no details, you might as well, right now, crawl back into that ignorant uninformed cave you live in.

More to the point - if you don't know what F'k you are talking about, keep your jaw shut - unless, of course - you WANT people to know how stupid you are.