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Coffee Talk: 7 Words You Can't Say to Jack Johnson

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What are the mail-in/absentee laws there?
In what sense? Everyone can request an absentee ballot and provided it is postmarked by election day, it counts. They have drop boxes at every BOE office that you can drop ballots off as well. Obviously, those aren't postmarked, but provided they are in the box before the time polls close, they count. My county says they empty the box every few hours, and it is supposed to be guarded 24/7..

My oldest moved to Texas and voted absentee in Ohio. Interestingly, it says the returned ballot should only need a single stamp. But some people weighed them anyway and found it needs two. Post office has supposedly been instructed to postmark and deliver them anyway.
 
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I never watched that. I watched Santa Barbara for a year or so, that was weird*. A young Robin Wright was in that one.

*A prim and proper rich lawyer had a split personality- the other half being a drunken cowboy named Sonny Sprocket lol
That was my **** name
 

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In what sense? Everyone can request an absentee ballot and provided it is postmarked by election day, it counts. They have drop boxes at every BOE office that you can drop ballots off as well. Obviously, those aren't postmarked, but provided they are in the box before the time polls close, they count. My county says they empty the box every few hours, and it is supposed to be guarded 24/7..

My oldest moved to Texas and voted absentee in Ohio. Interestingly, it says the returned ballot should only need a single stamp. But some people weighed them anyway and found it needs two. Post office has supposedly been instructed to postmark and deliver them anyway.
I was just wondering if there were any other suppression measures being attempted. Some states severely restrict who can request an absentee ballot and for which reasons.
 

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I was just wondering if there were any other suppression measures being attempted. Some states severely restrict who can request an absentee ballot and for which reasons.
Gotcha. They do not limit who can get them and try to kill stuff on the back end like the trick to add pages so it would require extra postage on return and hoping no one catches it.

They also made a rule that no one can return an absentee ballot in person for anyone else. The person it was sent to had to return it. Obviously an issue for those bedridden or with extremely limited mobility. Easy enough to just get some stamps and have someone mail it, though.
 

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As funny as that is, it IS a political statement inside a polling place and probably should not be allowed.
I've never seen the handmaid's tale and grew up near Amish.

I wouldn't have seen this as a political statement...

But I'm often clueless...which , unfortunately, I have seen.
 

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I've never seen the handmaid's tale and grew up near Amish.

I wouldn't have seen this as a political statement...

But I'm often clueless...which , unfortunately, I have seen.
To me, the fact that it has been a common protest outfit against republican policies is what veers it into political statement.

However, the laws are usually written as "electioneering" which means direct candidate support or campaigning so maybe not.

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I've never seen the handmaid's tale and grew up near Amish.

I wouldn't have seen this as a political statement...

But I'm often clueless...which , unfortunately, I have seen.
Funny you should mention clueless, this is what I wore to vote.
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I don't know what's more Alarming that they are putting a moron on like in charge of health or they are talking like they have already won

If Kamala loses it will be a bigger blood bath

TONE DOWN THAT RHETORIC!!
 
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