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California's Uncounted Mail-In Ballots Reach Thousands
KABC-TV ^ | November 13, 2012

Posted on 11/13/2012 9:12:39 PM PST by Steelfish

California's Uncounted Mail-In Ballots Reach Thousands November 13, 2012

SACRAMENTO (KABC) -- There are plenty of vote-by-mail ballots in California that won't count in the final November tally, largely because of postmarks and signatures. There's a group out to change some of those ballot rules, hoping to boost voter turnout.

Thousands of vote-by-mail ballots throughout California are sitting in county registrar offices right now and will never be counted.

Some signatures on ballot envelopes don't match the one on the voter registration card. Other ballots are from previous elections. But the most common reason a ballot doesn't get counted: it is not in the county's hands by 8 p.m. on Election Night. An Election Day postmark is not good enough.

Many counties don't notify voters their ballots won't be counted.

"I think it's a dirty little secret that we're keeping from voters, quite frankly, this vote-by-mail ballots that are too late to get counted," said Kim Alexander, founder and president, California Voter Foundation.

In 2008, nearly half a million ballots were not counted in the three statewide elections that year.

Los Angeles County currently has more than 6,000 late ballots, while Santa Clara County has nearly 2,000. Sacramento County's count is approaching 1,500.

Voter turnout could actually be raised if late ballots were included.

(Excerpt) Read more at abclocal.go.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: absenteeballots; ca2012; electionfraud; voterfraud
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1 posted on 11/13/2012 9:12:43 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish
Typical banana republic BS. We all should be so proud.

Time to go back to paper ballots. Only one ballot per voter and EVERYONE GETS TO VOTE ON ELECTION DAY. If that don't work for you, TOUGH ****! You probably don't need to vote anyway.

2 posted on 11/13/2012 9:20:28 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest)
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To: Steelfish
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/2012-elections/nov-general/pdf/unprocessed-ballots-report.pdf

Unprocessed Ballots...
3 posted on 11/13/2012 9:20:59 PM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: Steelfish; patriot08

Patriot08 - I’ve been posting these excerpts and FR links and the url to the story on the long thread. If I don’t have time you could do the same if you have time.


4 posted on 11/13/2012 9:23:20 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I agree. All on one day, in the precinct, showing ID, NO computer crap, only paper. And how about a purple finger like in Iraq? ALready got a purple finger? Can’t vote twice!


5 posted on 11/13/2012 9:26:47 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Steelfish

Thank you for posting.
I’m glad interest in the voting sham is picking up


6 posted on 11/13/2012 9:30:52 PM PST by patriot08 (Native Texas girl)
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To: little jeremiah

Noticed a rash of voting threads late tonight.
Maybe we’re lighting a fire under them.


7 posted on 11/13/2012 9:32:20 PM PST by patriot08 (Native Texas girl)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
For an excellent lesson in why "early voting" is so pernicious and strongly favors Democrats, read Jack Cashill's article The Real Lesson of the Election yesterday in American Thinker. You are right; for fair elections, we need to go back to everybody voting on election day.
8 posted on 11/13/2012 9:32:31 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: little jeremiah
I think the pub party should get more latino candidates and I think they should get more asian candidates too....

but unless we get uniform election rules that greatly restrict the outright robbery that was this past election, all the latinos and asians in the world won't mean a damn thing...

9 posted on 11/13/2012 9:37:29 PM PST by cherry
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To: Steelfish
"But the most common reason a ballot doesn't get counted: it is not in the county's hands by 8 p.m. on Election Night."

I wonder how it's routed.


10 posted on 11/13/2012 10:06:05 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: cherry

I am sure there are good conservative Asians and Mexicans etc (I mean citizens of those ethnicities of course) but the election fraud AND good ol’ boy inner circle RINO crap has to go.


11 posted on 11/13/2012 10:13:02 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: patriot08

The more people read these details, the more they realize that the election was indeed stolen, and that train of thought leads them to realize that if this election was illegitimate, any future one will be, too.

And then the horror starts...

So, info is KEY.


12 posted on 11/13/2012 10:14:08 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

” Time to go back to paper ballots. Only one ballot per voter and EVERYONE GETS TO VOTE ON ELECTION DAY “

It works here in Japan . It’s IMPOSSIBLE to vote twice or more .


13 posted on 11/13/2012 10:17:45 PM PST by sushiman
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To: Steelfish

I’m a conservative in Commie-fornia, so I always get an absentee ballot, fill it out and drop it off at my local polling place on Election Day.


14 posted on 11/13/2012 10:36:09 PM PST by Beaten Valve
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To: Steelfish

whats worse is they send out the ballots too late for the mail round trip. My daughter’s ballot didn’t arrive at her dorm until the afternoon of Nov 2nd.


15 posted on 11/13/2012 10:37:51 PM PST by no-s (when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote)
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To: no-s
whats worse is they send out the ballots too late for the mail round trip. My daughter’s ballot didn’t arrive at her dorm until the afternoon of Nov 2nd.

In that case she takes her vote-by-mail ballot to a polling place, surrenders it and then votes. Not a complicated process.

16 posted on 11/13/2012 10:42:41 PM PST by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

Read the article. It’s most interesting. If the situation continues, the Republicans will never win another national election. My situation will be okay no matter who wins, because I have a federal pension. I am as helpless as the rest of you in stopping the juggernaut that is our national debt. Our kids and grandkids will be the losers. But as the nation goes irretrievably downhill, I figure I can at least keep my head above water. I’d like to see more drilling for gas and oil, but if it’s not to be, what can I as a helpless citizen do about it?


17 posted on 11/13/2012 11:00:50 PM PST by Ciexyz
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To: patriot08; Steelfish

MSM was in SUCH a hurry to declare BO the winner.


18 posted on 11/14/2012 12:03:17 AM PST by thecodont
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To: Steelfish

The most famous statement on voting: “It does not matter who votes...it matters on who counts the votes.”


19 posted on 11/14/2012 4:33:02 AM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I work in transportation and wasn’t even in the state on election day. Its absentee or nothing me and many others...or should the economy crash every 4 years when we quit to go home.


20 posted on 11/14/2012 6:52:00 AM PST by Raymann
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