Also, it is hard to find “good help” these days. That seems par for the course.

The only reamining problem will be if the voter returns the wrong one in confusion or attemtps to cross out “Osama” and write in “obama” which invalidates the ballot.

Biden smoothly carried on with nary a glimmer of visible reaction, and claims not to have noticed – the ultimate put-down, because after the intro., Biden emphasized in rather gushy fashion, his appreciation of the [exceptionally eloquent] introduction. Biden’s quick. I think he heard, all right, but did his best to make it disappear. Can’t they vet these local dingdongs better so this sorta stuff doesn’t happen?

REALLY OT: Does anyone else see a budding Peyton Place or Springer-smashup possibility looming with the 2-3/odds on R candydate couples? I could have sworn Cindy and Sarah inserted a different brand of competition in the Strongsville mashup, vie-ing for Johnbuoy’s favor, mreorrrrr! – or maybe a reeely reely bad sit-com, if the future of the country and the world only weren’t at stake. Our face to the world. Destroy the economic system world-wide, break all the toys, turn everything toxic, and all they can think of is hair-pulling contests. oh groan.

Last election I was a registered independent and was requested by the BoE to serve as an inspector since they didn’t have enough people. The Republican rep I was teamed with tried turning people away (there was a hotly contested contest betw Sue Kelly and John Hall which Hall won) when she couldn’t get the machine to work and then she tried to foist a provisional ballot on one guy who just laughed at her. She had forgotten to turn the lever which activates the machine.

At the end of the night we had thirteen provisional ballots and she was refusing to count them with the excuse, “But we don’t know what party they belong to.” I asked her what relevance that had to do with someone voting and she just blurted out that Kelly might lose. I then wondered how many other times this woman had cowed other people into accepting her opinion of how votes should be counted in the past.

I’m really gonna be sad to see the lever machines go here in NY.

So, I try, with mixed success, to think harder than the opposition.

Of this was borne a perhaps silly and unworkable idea but, with your indulgence, I will throw it out for comment, if warranted. If not, just ignore.

In a case such as that of the misprinted NY ballots, would it be possible that a judge at some level, or some other official, could make a ruling allowing a one-for-one cure for the mistake. Any person possessing a ballot with their own name on the official mailing envelope, might be given the right to turn in the misprinted one, and be issued a new, correctly printed one. They might be required to sign an affidavit doohinkie and present photo i.d. to do it but, if they could, they would be allowed to submit the new ballot to be counted if they surrendered their erroneous old one.

I know, bad idea. Absentee means the many of these people expect NOT to be present and available to vote in person on Election Day, so how do you reach them, yadda yadda.

But does this half-baked scheme idea prompt some sharper mind to come up with anything? anything at all?

I’m getting extremely peeved at this disenfranchisement of voters shtick rearing its ugly head over and over and over! Dang! HOW do we get these &*@#s to understand once and for all that we’re fed up with this nonsense. We will not surrender our Constitutional rights. NO!

p.s., I love your mail fraud charge idea LHP. Smack em down with subpoenas up to their eyebrows…

Thanks for your great posts. They are very informative and help me understand the legal aspects that we face in our society.

you might have 300 counts of mail fraud

still upset as well!

This has really upset me personally and I am even more determined to ensure that this election is not stolen since I feel the course of our nation depends so heavily on it.