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Yonnie3

(18,198 posts)
Wed Oct 13, 2021, 11:25 AM Oct 2021

I voted today in Virginia

Last edited Wed Oct 13, 2021, 02:28 PM - Edit history (1)

I didn't trust the USPS this election so I voted early rather than via mail. Easy and quick for me. Everybody was properly masked and distanced. I was in the building about five minutes.

I know several people whose ballots were mailed mid September and they have disappeared in the mail. Tracking stops after the second scan.

Edit for clarity: They have not received their ballots.

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I voted today in Virginia (Original Post) Yonnie3 Oct 2021 OP
Woo-hoo! Recursion Oct 2021 #1
Congrats and you're smarter than I. rogue emissary Oct 2021 #2
Locally, we can't seem to get the ballot through the mail Yonnie3 Oct 2021 #4
Only recently have I seen a drop in our USPS delivery. rogue emissary Oct 2021 #5
I voted early too. I am excited and determined to keep VA blue ITower68 Oct 2021 #3

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
1. Woo-hoo!
Wed Oct 13, 2021, 12:29 PM
Oct 2021

I'm overseas so I sent my ballot back weeks ago. Here's hoping. I can't stomach the thought of Virginia going red again.

rogue emissary

(3,218 posts)
2. Congrats and you're smarter than I.
Thu Oct 14, 2021, 11:01 AM
Oct 2021

I got my first ballot the first week of early voting. Sent it back in a day and got a email saying I needed a witness signature two days later.

So I spoiled that ballot and got a second one in two days. Signed and got my boss to witness for me and put it in the mail at my local post off next day.

Now it's been over a week and the online site still doesn't list receiving the second ballot. Called today and looks like if they don't receive it by Tuesday. I'm going to have to spoil that second ballot and get a third issued.

Yonnie3

(18,198 posts)
4. Locally, we can't seem to get the ballot through the mail
Thu Oct 14, 2021, 03:40 PM
Oct 2021

We don't seem to have regular mail delivery except parcels, most of which are coming from Amazon. Once a week or so a carrier will deliver some mail to addresses (often wrong) late at night. This has been going on for more than a month.

There was a highly publicized catch up two weeks ago and we got two deliveries on Sunday. More than a month of junk mail. No ballot, no utility bills, only one recently mailed bill.

This is in the Charlottesville area. Is it just a coincidence that it is a very blue area?

rogue emissary

(3,218 posts)
5. Only recently have I seen a drop in our USPS delivery.
Thu Oct 14, 2021, 04:30 PM
Oct 2021

Had six letters from a neighbor left in my box. Also, Can't judge as I almost always pay on line and monitor any bill on the their web site.

I'm in NOVA, but wouldn't be surprised that they try messing with blue area mail.

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