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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMaryland's Web-delivered ballots -- more than 110,000 have been requested -- must be hand-copied by po
The rush to vote from home this year left Maryland election judges with a burden that plagues no other state in the country: Ballots delivered online cannot be read by the states scanning machines.
To be counted, each of those ballots must instead be hand-copied by election judges onto a cardstock ballot.
And each week, more requests for those Web-delivered ballots are rolling into election offices around the state, dramatically increasing the pressure on a system built for a far different type of election.
A month ahead of the deadline, more than 111,000 people have requested Web-delivered blank ballots nearly twice the volume of the previous election. About 924,000 voters have so far asked for ballots to be mailed to them.
The Web-delivered ballots offer front-end expediency for voters, who can follow a link in their email, enter credentials on a website and download a ballot packet to print at home on regular paper.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/maryland-web-ballots-hand-copied/2020/09/23/73221310-f2bd-11ea-999c-67ff7bf6a9d2_story.html
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,523 posts)I applied for a ballot online in July. Still haven't got it.
And I have no net access,no computer and no printer. Fuck .
SamKnause
(13,126 posts)They have received my application for a ballot.
I called the Board of Elections to track and verify my application.
I will be able to track my ballot on line after is it mailed.
No Vested Interest
(5,170 posts)I'm also in Ohio, only a few miles from my county board of election headquarters.
My and daughter's will be taken there by car.
LisaL
(44,989 posts)NT
Grasswire2
(13,579 posts)ecstatic
(32,829 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(11,695 posts)DemsIn2020
(81 posts)This is going to be a complete cluster.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,695 posts)On a happier note, welcome to DU
LisaL
(44,989 posts)whether scanner can read them.
Hekate
(91,181 posts)...sheer ignorance of how computer systems and their interfaces work, we are up Shit Creek. Way too much is MIHOP, but some is the aforesaid ignorance.
It is absolutely infuriating.
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)Boogiemack
(1,406 posts)Cut these off and ask senders to do over with in-person deliverable ballots. It's not too late.
DeminPennswoods
(15,310 posts)like in the old days. Scanning certainly makes life easier, but 111,000 is hardly an insurmountable amount to hand count.
honest.abe
(8,699 posts)I suspected their might be complications with the web option so we choose the mail in ballot.
However, we have not received it yet even though we sent in the request about 3 weeks ago.
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