Can Early Voting Create A Conundrum?

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This post is to encourage discussion about voting, not to create issues... In the United States, Election Day is defined by federal statute, as the first Tuesday, after the first Monday, in November, every year. That's the day when all normal elections are held; special elections to fulfill empty seats and primaries are held on other days. Many US states also have Early Voting, sometimes called Advance Voting, where polls are opened days, and sometimes weeks, before Election Day, giving voters more time to cast their ballots. Early Voting raises an interesting question... What if a person votes early and then moves to another district before Election Day? Or, not to be morose, what if they die? Should their vote count? Since, on Election Day, they are ineligible to vote? The US has the secret ballot, and there is no way to associate the person's vote with a specific ballot. Even if they mailed in an absentee ballot, most states process those prior to Election Day, separating the actual ballot from the envelope, making it impossible to associate the vote with the person. So, the question, though interesting, is moot. There's no way to remove that person's ballot; it will be counted. What do you think? Leave an opinion below.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

It's clear you don't know how this works or just like with the FEMA stuff, you're just lying to spread misinformation to help Trump like everything you post. Your mail-in ballot is not opened until election night to be scanned. It is not anonymous. Ballots have barcodes or numbers on them so they know it's your ballot. This prevents people from mailing one in and then also showing up in person to cast a second one. The reason states don't actually certify results for a month and congress doesn't until January is because people look into all these possible fradulent scenarios and they never find anything significant. Voting by mail is perfectly secure-just ask Trump who always votes by mail.

purplepoppy · Accepted Answer

No, because they were eligible at the time they cast their vote. You can't stop people voting just because they might die or we'd have an age limit. You might as well ban people who won't survive the full election term because they won't suffer the consequences. My fear would be casting an early vote then a week later the candidate does something terrible.

NaultD · Accepted Answer

If you vote early and die, it dosen't get counted. That's apart of the counting process.

With election day registration possibly and you should update registration and vote where you're going to live logically. With early voting and moving i don't think anyone cares. Basically there isn't a gap of rights to vote and right of freedom of movement.

You shouldn't be punish if you happen to move on Wensday after the election. You should also have the right to vote even if you do move day of election oe just before at your new home with an updated registration. Just don't vote twice.

exitseven · Accepted Answer

Early voting can have unintended consequences. I usually vote on election day but I am having surgery on Oct 31 and I want to vote early in case I die on the table.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

The deadline for voter registration in Florida this year was October 7.

KostasKouvalis · Answer

I mean, if they casted their vote BEFORE they died, then I believe it should still count. So early voting is on a state by state basis. I was starting to think you have to be a retard or meet some sort of other special criteria. You just have to live a certain state.
They may not know who's vote belongs to who, but I'm assuming they should have a record of everyone who voted.

But yeah, I don't like this idea of certain people getting to vote early. While I do think it's strange to have election day on a work day, I think early voting should either be applied equally across the board, or done away with completely. It makes no sense to have an "Election Day" if some people can vote early. Our election process is so weird.

msc545 · Answer

The things you've mentioned are relatively rare and do not occur in numbers large enough to affect the outcome of elections. There are always hypothetical cases where an individual who somehow is not authorized to vote winds up voting Anyway. It's not really the end of the world as some people would have us believe because that vote doesn't have any effect on the actual purpose of the election which is to determine a winner.

What I'm saying is that a few votes one way or the other really don't matter.

QuietRunner · Answer

1. Early Voting is a good thing, more chances to get to the polls on time

2. Most places have laws in place try to prevent the deception of voting in two locations that early voting could cause.

3. Mass mailing of unrequested ballots is the worst thing to do. Voters should be made to request an absentee ballot or vote in-person

Again John Adams is quoted as saying:

“Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other”

If you trust the government is going to do the right thing, then we must trust the people are doing the right thing

Astarlessnightsky · Answer

Sudden death may be something thats always possible, even when someone votes on the voting day itself, he can die on his way home, in this case you don't try finding his specific ballot and remove it.

As for moving, that shouldn't be an issue as. There are many ways to solve this and prevent "double votes".

The more issues i have, is with people who work on tuesdays, shouldn't it be held in a Sunday, when most people got free and have more time to vote?

Anonymous · Answer

The argument is they only collect votes on earlier days but count them on election day. What we really need is one 24 hour election day so all the states are voting at the same time regardless of time zone. If you want to vote at 3am you can, or 9:30 or 12 noon or whenever during that 24 hour period. Alaska will finish up at the exact same time as Maine, so results won't be skewed based on who the West Coast thinks has already won.

CandiKrunch · Answer

Someone said that if you vote and die, it doesn't count. So my question is; how long after you die are you eligible to start voting, again?

sage2021 · Answer

Voting in person and showing an ID card, using paper ballots only is the best way to go. The fricken democrats couldn't cheat their way into the White House using that method of voting!

DexWest · Answer

I think early voting should be restricted to demographics that stop or hinder someone from voting in person on Election Day. I’m deployed to Europe. There’s no physical way that I can be in my home state and cast a ballot in person. Law enforcement, first responders, doctors, nurses, military, etc.

jennifer_bloom · Answer

I would say you do have uncommon situations where these examples would happen, but the president is chosen through millions of votes and the purpose of voting is to assess the general trends of the population, it is not meant to be a tailored opportunity designed to celebrate individual recourse and personality diversity.

Anonymous · Answer

The envelope must be signed and it has your name and address. All of your info including your signature is verified against your state registration. After that, if everything checks out, your ballot would be removed from the envelope, and sent to be counted anonymously.

This post is either misinformation, or very uninformed.

DryGermanGuy · Answer

You are theorizing about a scenario that even during a pandemic affects 0,001% of the votes at most.

shortster · Answer

What if you vote early and then the person you voted for does something bizarre and you no longer want to vote for them? Thinking of Howard Dean and his imfamous scream. Or maybe they are an incumbent and the FBI releases the crime statistics for the previous year about a month before the election and the rates are down. Yet when they update the numbers a few weeks later the crime rates are actually up. I vote on election day to get the most information possible.

Anonymous · Answer

I think it probably makes the most sense to go back to on the day voting ONLY and only with valid ID. Also, the process for registration prior to voting needs to FIRMLY establish citizenship and eligibility to vote.

DrPepper12 · Answer

Yes. Count them. They were eligible when they voted

MisterWack · Answer

Trump voted early in the general elections of Florida. No. Issue.

jshm2 · Answer

Nope. As those early votes are essentially "preregistered" so the person will not be on the register to vote anywhere else.

Anonymous · Answer

I don’t vote. I live away from the cities and people. I work and mind my own and live within my means. I don’t watch the news either.

NathanDavis · Answer

voting in the USA is a complete shitshow anyway... it is the conundrum itself

onedarkcloud · Answer

With the rules being changed midstream by THE DEMOCRATICCOMMUNIST PARTY OF AMERICA stealing and harvesting of ballots is now the rule rather than the exception>

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

No. Early voting has been happening for a long time now.  I don't see the problem.

DtMe89 · Answer

It can sort of skew polls, but no

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