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C Moon

(12,221 posts)
Tue Aug 10, 2021, 12:55 AM Aug 2021

Got a text from the Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters RE: the upcoming Republican scam election

to remove our governor from office (Newsom).

The Registrar told me my ballot has been mailed and to contact them if I don't receive it in a week.
I guess they are expecting some funny stuff to happen.

I wouldn't be surprised: when the GOP did this to Gray Davis, my ballot was stolen. I got to the election booth, and they told me I didn't have a ballot, so I had to vote with a provisional ballot (which I heard basically means that your vote won't count).

I hope this texting helps keep the election fair, but I have a feeling the GOP is going to use the new cheating tactics that they've developed since that big ass sat and did nothing in our WH.

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Got a text from the Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters RE: the upcoming Republican scam election (Original Post) C Moon Aug 2021 OP
With a little help from Dejoy dweller Aug 2021 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Aug 2021 #7
The only selection we need to worry about is item one, just vote no JohnSJ Aug 2021 #2
Provisional ballots may be counted in CA Retrograde Aug 2021 #3
Thanks. Good to hear! C Moon Aug 2021 #5
I had a mail ballot go missing once Retrograde Aug 2021 #6
Got the same message in an email today. Scottie Mom Aug 2021 #4
Dems control the election process in California. Elessar Zappa Aug 2021 #8

Response to dweller (Reply #1)

Retrograde

(10,161 posts)
3. Provisional ballots may be counted in CA
Tue Aug 10, 2021, 01:21 AM
Aug 2021

If you're original ballot was postmarked by election day and it doesn't show up by 3 days after the election, the county is supposed to process your provisional ballot as the real one. Counties are supposed to provide you with a tracking number for your provisional ballot so you can see what happens to it. California does its darndest to make sure the peoples' votes count - and if your county doesn't, scream loudly.

Retrograde

(10,161 posts)
6. I had a mail ballot go missing once
Tue Aug 10, 2021, 01:57 AM
Aug 2021

I've been permanent vote-by-mail since the early 2000s. The registrar's web site claimed it was sent, but I never received it. So I contacted them, got a response almost immediately, and a replacement ballot. But then I live in Santa Clara county, which has a very active Democratic party keeping an eye on things. We have had on-line ballot tracking for at least a decade.

Scottie Mom

(5,812 posts)
4. Got the same message in an email today.
Tue Aug 10, 2021, 01:25 AM
Aug 2021

Betting that nothing makes it to us LA County voters in 7 days.

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