Comments on: See you at the polls http://www.dustbury.com/archives/488 I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:03:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Andrea Harris http://www.dustbury.com/archives/488/comment-page-1#comment-970 Andrea Harris Sun, 22 Oct 2006 02:09:09 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/archives/488#comment-970 The church where I vote is right across the street. Why would I mail in my ballot? The church where I vote is right across the street. Why would I mail in my ballot?

]]> By: McGehee http://www.dustbury.com/archives/488/comment-page-1#comment-969 McGehee Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:25:30 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/archives/488#comment-969 <i>I received my ballot in the mail and filled it out sitting at the table. My power of anonymity is gone as I sign the envelope to mail it in. The post office could discard my plainly marked envelope. Should an unethical official wish, they could know how I voted. They could choose not to count my vote at all and I'd have no way of knowing.</i> That's one reason why I've always gone back to plain old Election-Day-at-my-assigned-polling-place voting. As for where <i>your</i> assigned polling place is, Charles, the precinct where I walked GOTV in 1984 had a church as a polling place. In California. I received my ballot in the mail and filled it out sitting at the table. My power of anonymity is gone as I sign the envelope to mail it in. The post office could discard my plainly marked envelope. Should an unethical official wish, they could know how I voted. They could choose not to count my vote at all and I’d have no way of knowing.

That’s one reason why I’ve always gone back to plain old Election-Day-at-my-assigned-polling-place voting.

As for where your assigned polling place is, Charles, the precinct where I walked GOTV in 1984 had a church as a polling place.

In California.

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