Millions Of Calif Vote-By-Mail Ballots Unreturned

[Kadie]

Nov 1, 2010 2:00 pm US/Pacific
Millions Of Calif Vote-By-Mail Ballots Unreturned

SACRAMENTO (AP) ― Millions of Californians have not yet returned their vote-by-mail ballots, and county election officials say the flood of returns expected on Tuesday could delay results in tight races.

As of Monday morning, many counties had received only about half of the absentee ballots they had mailed out.

More than 7.6 million absentee ballots were requested statewide for the general election. In some counties, vote-by-mail is expected to exceed in-person voting.

That means a huge number of last-minute returns will not be counted on election night, and the most competitive races may remain too close to call

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[Zephie]

1. It's all those prop 19 voters who keep... wait.. Dude, what was I saying?

:smoke:

[Emillereid]

2. I've been calling using votebuilder for the last couple of weeks and

several young voters didn't know what to do because they never received their vote by mail ballots -- makes one wonder.
I told them to go to the nearest polling place and do a provisional ballot.

[jemsan]

4. I didn't return my ballot because I'm surrendering it tomorrow

at the polls and voting in person. :)

[Politicalboi]

3. I applied to vote by mail on Oct 18th

I never received my ballot. Also I am in Madera county, and it said Los Angeles county my old county. I crossed out LA county and wrote Madera. I thought I was going to be 40 miles away from my polling place, but as luck will have it, I will be in my district tomorrow.