New York City voters get absentee ballots with wrong names, addresses
Source: USA Today
Voters in New York City say they've received absentee ballots with the wrong names and addresses on their ballot envelopes, adding confusion to how they'll vote and whether their votes will count in the November election.
It's unclear just how many voters are facing the issue but scores on Twitter and in local media reported receiving envelopes to return their ballots which have the wrong names, addresses and voter IDs on them.
Rachel Garbade, 27, who lives in Brooklyn, said the issue "adds more anxiety and fear" about whether her vote will count in an election already plagued with doubts about how the large influx of mail-in votes due to the coronavirus pandemic will be processed and counted.
"I don't understand why something of this level importance wasn't taken so super seriously and errors weren't double checked," Garbade told USA TODAY.
The problem appears primarily centered in Brooklyn after voters in several neighborhoods received their absentee ballots Monday. Garbade, however, said her grandfather, who lives in Queens, had the same issue.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/09/29/new-york-city-voters-get-absentee-ballots-wrong-name-address/3570961001/
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If NYC can't get it right....
These people may have to go to a poll and actually vote. They can bring the ballot with the errors with them to turn in.
Keep copies of everything. We must help each other out, and if they are a senior citizen, like me, they may need it. (although I don't.) It is ok to get assistance.
It TAKES A VILLAGE, people.
... nor is the Postal Service to blame.
The printer from Rochester botched this up, and it's the same company that prints Chump's campaign materials. They stuffed the personalized ballots into envelopes that were addressed to different recipients. So each person received their envelope with the wrong ballot inside. Now the printer will probably say there's not enough time to print and mail another set of materials.
I used to work in direct mail advertising once upon a time, many years ago. In fact I was a production manager and I handled outsourcing of printing and matched-mailing contracts to outside vendors.
I hear you, the vendors must show proof that they did their job correctly. and if they haven't done it right then MY job is on the line. However in these weird times of the pandemic I doubt very much that the vendor in Rochester allowed customers on their shop floor to oversee their projects. And I doubt that any production manager from Brooklyn (or somewhere in the NYC area) was able or willing to go to Rochester to oversee what should have been a routine matched-mailing program.
These companies do this type of work all the time, that's why they get awarded those contracts. This company Phoenix Technologies, I don't know anything about them, but they majorly fucked up. It has to be deliberate and politically motivated, that's all I can say. Maybe the night manager is a raving Chump lunatic, I don't know. There's going to be a huge liability issue and they are at fault.
