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Update: Nothing illegal here. Virginia reused envelopes from last year. (lemmy.world)

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EDIT: See @AnimePhantasm comment below! My friend called the election board and they confirmed what @AnimePhantasm and @fmstrat commented! This was Virginia reusing last year’s envelopes.

OP I am an absentee voter in Blacksburg just next door. Shine a light on the blacked out part. I am 99% sure this is legit, they just crossed out the witness requirement. I can see the word witness under the sharpie in your picture. Virgina doesnt have to do that witness thing anymore. We did at the last general election, so I am guessing they just reused the same envelopes. You should call and ask your elections office before alerting the news. They are hardworking folks whose jobs are already 100 times harder then they used to be. Stirring up reports of election fraud where it isn't happening makes us just as bad as them.

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[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago

Another way is to discourage people from early voting and then lose some percentage who end up not voting on election day either.

You're not wrong. I'll be voting in person for this reason. But if you're not 100% sure you'll make it on election day, vote early. Preferably do it in person.

Some votes will likely count more than others.

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yep. Increase the need for in-person voting, decrease the amount of voting locations, have armed republican "volunteers" patrolling places, and then see how many people are willing to wait hours with armed right-wing militants eyeballing whether your glasses make you a "libtard."

I have no statistical evidence to back this up, but my gut feeling is that the aggregate of all the voting fuckery, election board fuckery, voting laws fuckery might end up be worth as much as 3-5% in battleground states. There's no statistical model that accounts for the illegal/quasi-legal voter suppression and disenfranchisement efforts.

All polls assume that everyone that can vote and intends to vote will get to vote and that their vote will be counted and that the counted votes will be accurately reported. That's a serious blind spot in election polling. And since the Republicans have been screaming that elections are fraudulent because of democratic/immigrant fantasies for four full years, when legitimate fraud can and does occur, no Democrat will be able to say it loud enough that it matters.

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