Partner and I just got our absentee ballots. There is a problem

[mitchtv]

The format is new this year: a 8X15 card folded in two spots, obviously for optical scanner. On both of our ballots they were separated at the top fold. Is this gonna stop my vote from being counted? What to do? My neighbors are coming to me for advice/action.This is a heavily Puke county. All advice considered ( we are planning to ask more neighbors if their ballots cemr in pieces too.

[EFerrari]

1. It certainly could. I'd call the county registrar of voters.

Or, the County Clerk, depending on your set up.

I'm :tinfoilhat: about voters being pitched off the rolls right now, mostly because voters ARE being ditched right and left due to HAVA. But, you and your neighbors seem to me to have a legit concern.

[davidinalameda]

2. call your county election official

and then call your county party office

you need to get this documented NOW

also, you may want to contact the SOS office as well as the state party if you don't get a satisfactory response from the county election people

hell, tell everyone you can think of

this sounds a bit fishy and needs to be investigated

[mitchtv]

4. I smell a rat

these are the fuckers who sued Shelley for decertifying Dielbold/Sierra. My first year here we registered at DMV, and never got a ballot, Neighbors registered (dem) the old faxhioned way, no ballot either

[davidinalameda]

10. I'd definitely get on the horn to someone

there is something seriously wrong

[Yael]

3. Agree with the others. Take pics of the ballots

and call the election office as well as your state Dem chair.

[LiberalHeart]

5. Call the media.

[valerief]

8. What media? It doesn't exist anymore. nt

[Liz7]

6. good luck figuring it out

My dad is voting absentee and they erroneously sent him a Republican ballot. No time to get the correct one by Tuesday. And this is in Michigan, where our choices have already been substantially narrowed.

[AndyTiedye]

7. A Republican Ballot Might be the Most Useful one in Michigan anyway

vote for mittens, he'll be easier to beat than cain or fuckabee.

[Kucinich4America]

9. Not neccessarily

Vote Kucinich in Michigan. If he wins a primary, the media will be out of excuses to exclude him from the debates. And it will be funny as Hell to watch the DLC pretend that they never said they would insist that the delegates would be seated in Denver (as they did when they assumed Hillary had a lock on the state)