Ramsey County Elections Manager Joe Mansky doesn't understand that voters want to be informed...

[Eric J in MN]

..if their absentee ballots were rejected.

His office apparently didn't bother to tell any voters that their ballots were rejected. He also refused to give the Al Franken campaign information about rejected ballots until a judge ordered him to.

Star Tribune:

From his spot at Recount Central, a boxy office building outside downtown St. Paul, Ramsey County Elections Manager Joe Mansky said he worries about voters being asked the details of how they filled out their ballots.

"I wouldn't want Ben Golnik contacting me, or anyone else" he said, smiling as Golnik, a Republican operative and recount monitor, walked by on his way to observe ballot counts.

The absentee ballots rejected in Ramsey County were bounced for an array of reasons, but a handful of categories dominate.

By far the largest number, nearly a quarter, were rejected because there was no evidence the voter had registered. Second-ranked, accounting for more than one in eight, were ballots that lacked a voter's signature on the envelope.

Joe Mansky seems to think that being contacted to let you know that your absentee ballot was rejected is a terrible thing, while being in the dark that your ballot was rejected is A-OK.

[kickysnana]

1. Thanks, I just emailed him regarding our Senior Building ballots.

[Eric J in MN]

2. What was the issue with Senior Building ballots? NT

NT

[kickysnana]

3. As far as I know none.

it was the conversation at coffee in the morning and afternoon coffee clutches and I was echoing the conclusion there for him that he was mistaken about people not wanting to know about mistakes or letting the people know who could make things less confusing know so that it didn't happen as often. The board and the office fielded several calls about procedures for registering and voting procedures.

But since they were saying so many people forgot to sign the envelope on their ballots. Some folks probably were thinking that an outside signature would make identity theft more possible or they possibly missed it. I cannot think of anything else you sign on the outside.

[Dinger]

4. Dumb Question,

How would they know who's actual ballot it was?

[Mnpaul]

5. They are still sealed in the second envelope

They haven't been opened. They were rejected for reasons other than what they did on the ballot itself. Signature,witness,registration....