Voting By Mail

[Beregond2]

Setting up a vote-by-mail system, as Florida is proposing to
do for the revote, isn't so easy, as this article from the
Oregonian illustrates.

http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1205560530237400.xml&coll=7

[Vinca]

1. Florida has pretty much canned the idea. The whole delegation

is opposed to it other than Nelson.

[flyarm]

2. what a freaking joke..vote by mail in Fla? this happened this week...

seems the postal service lost absentee ballots..for an election held in Fla last week...


http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/local/article418194.ece
1,117 absentee ballots for House race are lost
By Cristina Silva, Times Staff Writer
Published Saturday, March 15, 2008 12:03 AM


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snip:
CLEARWATER — Just nine days before the primary election, the U.S. Postal Service has lost more than 1,100 absentee ballots for the state House District 55 race.

Pinellas elections officials said they delivered the 1,117 ballots to the Clearwater Bulk Mail Unit on Monday.

Postal officials confirmed the ballots were received but say they have no record of what happened to them after that.

The mishap has alarmed local political leaders. (really? again?)

[Beregond2]

3. FLA

No offense to any Floridians here, but what the hell is wrong with that state? Can't they do anything right?