Posted on 09/18/2018 8:47:28 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
A Fairfax County focus group this summer found many college students who have gotten an absentee ballot simply fail to send it back because a U.S. Postal Service stamp seems to be a foreign concept to them.
“One thing that came up, which I had heard from my own kids but I thought they were just nerdy, was that the students will go through the process of applying for a mail-in absentee ballot, they will fill out the ballot, and then, they don’t know where to get stamps,” Lisa Connors with the Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs said.
“That seems to be like a hump that they can’t get across.”
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What???
Our mail in ballots are postage paid here in AZ!!
Too soon oldt und too late schmardt!
Another argument against absentee ballots and having to show up at a polling place, with an ID.
First, I would say this....most would call their momma and ask her to send stamps. Second, they might go to Amazon and order stamps (paying a $6 charge on the purchase order of ten stamps). Or they might be brilliant enough to just go to the Post Office web site and order 20 stamps via them.
The way that the kid will resolve this? If in a out-of-state university situation....they will go and register in that state (most common approach).
Someone should do a poll because I imagine that 50-percent of college kids don’t vote.
In PA they are a de facto poll tax: One stamp to mail the application and two stamps (extra thick, extra weight) mail the completed ballots.
Still worth a buck fifty not to stand in line for an hour with a bunch of unwashed libtards.
Why should the vote of a person that ignorant count anyway?
If they don’t know where to get a stamp, they are too stupid to vote.
They should create a college course on that. Why not, they have courses on every other ridiculous libtard phenomenon, why not for something with real meaning and purpose.
Thank Christ.
But I sure know how to find a post office. Hate waiting in a line if I don't have to.
Put the damned phone down and find out how the world works around you.
I don’t know about that being very common. Here in Western NC, students from UNCA were sitting in a restaurant openly bragging about voting both here in NC and sending an absentee ballot in to their home state. IMHo, that’s probably pretty common among the dumbazz SJW set.
Back in the seventies we did not have early voting in Texas. I voted from a drilling rig in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea where I worked. I informed the registrar of voters where I would be, and to mail the ballot to the drilling rig via the address of the Helicopter company that serviced our rig. The ballot came to the rig, I voted and put a Norwegian stamp that I had bought on land on the ballot. I put it in the rig mailbox and I thus voted.
Reagan won!
Most ATMs offer stamps- at least where I live
However if they do not know what ATM is- or where located- I am unable to help
Initially, I thought surely they are not that ignorant.
But, then I remembered that I physically mail maybe 1 or 2 items PER YEAR. I don’t even know what the current postal rate is, as I have a few ‘forever’ stamps. Most of my communications are via websites and email. Most of my ‘bills’ are electronic and so are my payments.
A few years ago, I recall trying to write out a physical check and had almost forgotten how to fill in the blanks. Mostly I use a credit card, pay it off each month, and collect a little bonus points cash a few times a year.
If you went and asked a hundred college kids living on a campus....how many letters they mail per year....I’ll bet over 50-percent mail zero on average. I think for 2017, I mailed a total of four letters for the year.
Shoot, it costs about $1.50 to mail a ballot across town in MI.
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