Has anyone seen the signature of a typical medical doctor? What are these people thinking?
Here are the first two paragraphs from an article in Wednesday's Virginian-Pilot:
"By next year's election, poor penmanship might be reason enough to disqualify a voter's mailed absentee ballot in Virginia.
The Republican-controlled State Board of Elections withdrew one set of rules governing absentee ballots - they gave election officials more leeway to count the ballots of voters who made mistakes filling them out - and substituted them with less-flexible guidelines."
And this paragraph further down the article,
"Removed from the current state absentee ballot regulation is language in the previous version that made it clear that illegible voter or witness signatures on a ballot wouldn't invalidate it, and a catch-all paragraph that specified ballots wouldn't be tossed if a voter's identity could be otherwise confirmed by election officials."
Overall, the proposed regulations will increase the liklihood that qualified voters will have their absentee ballots rejected despite the claim of a policy advisor to the State Board of Elections (Justin Riemer) who is quoted as saying, ""The goal here is to get things right on a tough issue... to err on the side of the voter."
Yeah, right.
Read it all at this link.
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