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RandySF

(70,603 posts) Fri Oct 4, 2024, 11:03 AM Oct 4

Mail-in ballot know-how: What if you are sent more than one ballot?

Your vote counts, but you only get just one.

So a Maryland voter who got two mail-in ballots for the same person contacted WTOP and wanted to know: What should they do?

Gilberto Zelaya, the community engagement public relations officer for the Montgomery County Board of Elections, said in a case like that, the answer is simple: “Vote one, return the voted one and discard or destroy the other.”

Zelaya said it’s not a common occurrence that a single voter ends up with two mail-in ballots, but there are “checks and balances” to ensure that the completed mail-in ballot will be counted when returned, and that a single voter doesn’t cast more than one ballot.

https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2024/10/mail-in-ballot-know-how-what-if-you-are-sent-more-than-one-ballot/

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Mail-in ballot know-how: What if you are sent more than one ballot? (Original Post) RandySF Oct 4 OP

it kind of depressing that super simple stopdiggin Oct 4 #1

No checks and balances against sending someone more than one ballot ? MichMan Oct 4 #2

What If This A Way Of Tricking A Voter To Vote Twice &..... global1 Oct 4 #3

stopdiggin

(12,817 posts)

1. it kind of depressing that super simple

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Fri Oct 4, 2024, 11:11 AM

Oct 4

stuff like this actually needs an answer.

(Imagining the poor voter that is just SO confused .. !)

MichMan

(13,156 posts)

2. No checks and balances against sending someone more than one ballot ?

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Fri Oct 4, 2024, 11:16 AM

Oct 4

global1

(25,917 posts)

3. What If This A Way Of Tricking A Voter To Vote Twice &.....

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Fri Oct 4, 2024, 11:27 AM

Oct 4

then catching those 2 votes and claiming there was cheating and voter fraud going on.

Could someone purposely send voters 2 marked ballots so they can be culled out of all votes cast and then claim and prove voter fraud.

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