GOP absentee ballot applications wrong

[JonLP24]

Source: Minot Daily News

GRAND FORKS (AP) - About 20,000 absentee ballot applications mailed by North Dakota's Republican Party did not request information required by state law, but Secretary of State Al Jaeger wants county auditors to accept them anyway.

The applications, which were mailed Sept. 19, did not ask voters to supply their birth dates or drivers license identification numbers. Last year, the Legislature added those requirements to North Dakota law to make it easier for local election officials to check applications against a state voter database.

Jaeger, who is a Republican, asked county auditors last week to process the forms, saying prospective voters should not be punished for someone else's mistake. Auditors said Monday they were not rejecting the forms.

''The important thing is to get the ballot to the voter,'' Jaeger said. ''The county auditors will bend over backwards to accommodate the voter.''



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[mcctatas]

1. And now I'm Sure that was merely an oversight...

:eyes:

[EC]

2. I'll go out on a limb here and guess that this batch of

ballots were actually sent to Republicans this time instead of Democrats...

[TechBear_Seattle]

8. I think it much more likely they weren't sent out at all

Except maybe to graveyards, hospitals and the like.

[scytherius]

3. And while they would NEVER do it for me . . .

I totally agree. Should be easy for people to vote, not difficult.

[orleans]

4. ''The county auditors will bend over backwards to accommodate the voter"

SINCE WHEN?

fuck that!

oh, they can overlook it because it is republicons??

fuck that!

[happygoluckytoyou]

5. and the DEMS bend over foreward when the auditors come around

[tanyev]

6. And guess which party would be having a screaming hissy fit if applications

from a voter registration drive were turned in with missing information?

[Pete2069]

7. See the difference in the number of registration forms sent

There were 20.000 going to the republican area.   Now when it
was the democratic area involved there were 750,000 or
more.... One thing this tells you about the number of
democrats voting compared with the number of republicans..  I
know these areas most likely are different locations , but
what does it tell you about the numbers.   Now how in the h.ll
can Obama only be 4 to 8 points in front of McSame...  I don't
believe there are that many democrat idiots out there
voting....

[JonLP24]

9. It is North Dakota

I didn't click on the link before posting as it could be south dakota, either way 20,000 is probaly a third of the voting population most likely to swing republican

[apnu]

10. I say too bad. Make the GOP reprint and send new ballots on their dime, and make them explain...

... their incompetence to their party members. And toss the wrong ones as they come in.

I mean the GOP is all ways pissing and moaning about personal accountability, well, its time for them to pony up up in ND.