Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Elections
 
Board
State Board of Elections
 
chapter
Absentee Voting [1 VAC 20 ‑ 70]
Chapter is Exempt from Article 2 of the Administrative Process Act
Action Action Making an Illegible or Missing Postmark an Immaterial Omission on Absentee Ballot Envelopes
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Comment Period Ended on 10/2/2020
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9/23/20  10:58 am
Commenter: H. Lambert

Stop Loosening The Rules That Ensure Voting Integrity
 

Please stop using the pandemic and other excuses to open cracks in the integrity of elections.  It is not unnecessarily burdensome or unsafe to require a postmark to be on a ballot in accordance with current requirements.  Everyone already has ample opportunity to vote early, in person, or using absentee ballots.  Loosening the timing and postmark requirements is a clear attempt to open avenues for fraud.  It seems that at every opportunity, the Democrats try to sneak in changes that do not serve to increase the sanctity and integrity of elections. 

Under such changes, the country's electoral system is regressing back to something out of the third world where the results are not available until weeks after the election because "miraculously" all the late ballots all seem to tilt the results in a certain direction.  It is shameless and craven and anti-Democratic.

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