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OT: American Politics

zeke said:
that's fine if there's a mail-by-this-date deadline.

but you can't have ballots invalidated just because the government couldn't deliver them or count them in a timely matter.
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So if you mail a ballot Nov 6 you expect provisions be made to make sure the government has received and counted it?

You can submit absentee ballots online, by email, or in person also in Georgia. Pretty easy to make sure your vote is counted.
 
FlyGuy said:
So if you mail a ballot Nov 6 you expect provisions be made to make sure the government has received and counted it?

You can submit absentee ballots online, by email, or in person also in Georgia. Pretty easy to make sure your vote is counted.
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I mean, there's always a deadline. No, dropping it in the mailbox at 9pm next Tuesday shouldn't be counted, but if you set a clear and reasonable deadline that any mail ballot has to be post-marked by X date (ie. this Wednesday or Thursday, for example), then that should count even if it's delivered to the precinct at 7am next Wednesday.

*To add: if a state wants to set a rule that ballots post-marked on Tuesday still count, then yeah, that's their right to delay official certification of votes for 1-2 weeks that it takes those last ones to arrive. The transfer of power doesn't happen until January anyways, we don't have to know the winner by midnight.
 
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