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Gary Schiltz-4

NM Absentee Ballots

Since Karen and I both live outside the USA, but are eligible to vote and last voted in New Mexico, we started the process of voting by absentee ballot. I was pleasantly surprised to find that we could send our signed, scanned request forms to the county clerk (we last lived in San Miguel county) by email, and that we could receive our absentee ballots, along with Affidavits of Eligibility forms, by email as well. I am in absolute agreement with this as a policy. I was, however, very surprised that the email, as well as the affidavit, states that we can return both the signed and scanned affidavit, and the filled and scanned ballot itself by email or fax. While I personally have no problem with people knowing who I voted for, I'm sure that many people do. Such a wide open system seems rife for potential abuse.

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Steve Smith

Re: NM Absentee Ballots

Gary -

Thanks for sharing this. One of the things I appreciate about this list is it's wide geographic (if not so much demographic) distribution. Your experience as an Expat in a South American country has been very helpful to me for some parallax. I heard from another member off-list that they were temporarily in a "near" swing state caring for a relative and have established residency there. Mary considered returning to WI this summer to help her daughter (continue) raising their twins at least through the transition of "back to school" (they are first-time preschoolers, in a pod related to the day care they were in before COVID), with the added bonus of being a WI resident come election time. It seems a shame to have to be trying to make every damn vote count to the hilt these days, but in the spirit of "when they go low, we go high", it is a challenge to remain both within the spirit and letter of our consensual rules (laws) when a large faction is willing to step over that line.

The battle over RBG's seat on the Supreme Court is likely to create a much higher contrast illumination of the hypocrisy on the Right, but it is not clear if that will be enough to flip the Senate or any of the Electoral College Swing States.

"we get the government we deserve" is so prophetic, yet painfully ambiguous...

On 9/19/20 11:03 AM, Gary Schiltz wrote:

Since Karen and I both live outside the USA, but are eligible to vote and last voted in New Mexico, we started the process of voting by absentee ballot. I was pleasantly surprised to find that we could send our signed, scanned request forms to the county clerk (we last lived in San Miguel county) by email, and that we could receive our absentee ballots, along with Affidavits of Eligibility forms, by email as well. I am in absolute agreement with this as a policy. I was, however, very surprised that the email, as well as the affidavit, states that we can return both the signed and scanned affidavit, and the filled and scanned ballot itself by email or fax. While I personally have no problem with people knowing who I voted for, I'm sure that many people do. Such a wide open system seems rife for potential abuse.
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