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Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Elections
 
Board
State Board of Elections
 
chapter
Absentee Voting [1 VAC 20 ‑ 70]
Action 2014 Absentee Material Omissions
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 7/21/2014
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7/20/14  11:04 am
Commenter: Mary Detweiler

Moral issue unnecessarily created
 

Requiring election/registration officials to verify generational and place-name identifiers on a returned absentee ballot could create a moral issue. What if if is clear beyond any doubt -- especially since the envelope supplied with the actual absentee paper ballot re-confirms identity -- that the voter is indeed the person he/she claims to be. Yet the generational or place-name identifier hasn't been added. Would you, as election/registration official, deny that vote, knowing that the correctly-identified person is voting? For a nit-picking and non-sensical reason, a vote would have been been unjustly denied. .

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