A friend tried to vote absentee but...

[Nailzberg]

So one of my coworkers out here in California sent in her application for an absentee ballot over two weeks ago. This week she received a letter saying she sent her request too late.

I was wondering if anyone here know what the cut-off date was for requesting the ballot? Maybe something fishy is going on.

I want to emphasize she was not denied because she moved. Cause technically, she didn't. This is a TV show we're working on for a coupla weeks out here. (I had no absentee problems myself, as I am a Cook County, IL voter. They love them Dem votes up there.)

[Adamocrat]

1. Cathy Cox is a DINO?

My partner and I had to jump through flaming hoops to get our absentee ballots. With Cox running the board of elections, one has to expect insane amounts of runaround and interference.

-A

[burned]

2. This is all I can find on the SoS website

You may request an absentee ballot as early as 180 days before an election. Absentee ballots must be signed and received by the county board of registrars' office on or before election day - no absentee ballots are issued on election day.


http://www.sos.state.ga.us/elections/elections/voter_information/default.htm#Absentee Voting

[Nailzberg]

3. That's what I saw, too.

It didn't have a cut-off date. You would assume since they managed to get her a rejection letter to her a week before the election, they could have gotten a ballot in her hands in the same time.

Oh, cool avatar. I gotta change mine.

[vetwife]

4. I voted early was we did not vote Diebold !

it was the same as Absentee

[Eloriel]

5. I would scream bloody murder

Also, there are a number of places to report problems:

DU's OWN VOTING PROBLEM REPORT FORUM (informational, this doesn't affect anything and certainly isn't "official"):
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=201

Voter Registration Fraud Clearinghouse
http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Voter_Registration_Fraud_Clearinghouse

Vote Watch 2004
http://vote2004.eriposte.com/

Voters Unite
http://www.votersunite.org/electionproblems.asp

BlackBoxVoting.org
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi


OTHER PROBLEM STOPPERS:

Help people find their polling places.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2529236
http://electionimpact.votenet.com/declareyourself/pollboothlocator.cfm

Election Protection Partnership
http://www.electionprotectionvolunteer.org/electionprotection/index.cfm?mktcode=EI001

NO MORE STOLEN ELECTIONS:
Pledge of Action to Stop A Stolen Election
"I remember the stolen presidential election of 2000 and I am willing to take action in 2004 if the election is stolen again. I support efforts to protect the right to vote leading up to and on Election Day, November 2nd. If that right is systematically violated, I pledge to join nationwide protests starting on November 3rd, either in my community, in the states where the fraud occurred, or in Washington DC."
http://www.nov3.us/

Explanation/Commentary by Medea Benjamin:
Stolen Election? This Time Around, Let’s Be Prepared by Medea Benjamin
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1025-34.htm

After months of traveling from swing state to swing state, I have been astounded by the number of people who are furious with the “war president” George Bush, and have dedicated enormous energy to registering, educating, cajoling, and exhorting people to vote. Californians have invaded Nevada, New Yorkers have flooded into Pennsylvania, folks from Massachusetts have adopted New Hampshire, and here in Florida, there is a deluge of activists from all over the country. These anti-Bush organizers, many of whom have no formal connection with the Democratic Party, will be out in full force on November 2, knocking on doors, chauffeuring voters to the polls and guarding polling places. It is likely that a massive turnout among young people, single women, African Americans, and newly registered and infrequent voters will make Kerry the winner.

The real question is: Will the election be free and fair or will we see a replay of 2000, with voting in key swing states like Florida and Ohio marred by significant fraud? Unfortunately, too many signs are pointing towards a replay of 2000. But this time, there’s a big difference: We’ll be ready!

In November 2000, disenfranchised voters, victims of butterfly ballots and hanging chads, and others angry at the state’s refusal to count every vote spontaneously started to protest. Black ministers were preparing parishioners to engage in non-violent civil disobedience to affirm their voting rights. Unwitting “Jews for Buchanan” were marching on the streets of West Palm Beach demanding a recount. Union reps, civil rights leaders and even Green Party members like myself converged on Florida to join the movement that proclaimed: “Every Vote Counts, Count Every Vote.”

But the leadership of the Democratic Party put the kabosh on our organizing efforts. “This matter will not be determined by rabblerousers in the streets,” they said, “but by professional lawyers in the courts.” We saw the outcome of that strategy: four disastrous years of an unelected president.

Our right to vote is too precious­and precarious--to be left in the hands of lawyers, judges and Democratic Party chiefs. This time around, it’s up to us, the people, to defend our democracy.

[Sinnerman]

6. Georgia Registration Cutoff was 3 weeks ago