[tomder55]

(Mail-in is different from absentee. Tomder claims they're the same. Nope!)

according to your state it is a distinction without a difference, Only in the debate of semantics is this even a valid discussion

[Wondergirl]

according to your state it is a distinction without a difference, Only in the debate of semantics is this even a valid discussion

Even my state says they are two different situations. I am NOT absentee (away from my precinct). Absentee voters who are away from their precinct on election day and those voters who are unable to travel to a polling place because of physical/mental/developmental problems do send via USPS their mail-in ballots. But those are different reasons why mail-in ballots are permitted.

[jlisenbe]

Absentee voters who are away from their precinct on election day and those voters who are unable to travel to a polling place because of physical/mental/developmental problems do send via USPS their mail-in ballots.

Kind of like a distinction without a difference?

[Wondergirl]

Kind of like a distinction without a difference?

Absentee ballot = voter's body is far away from home and their precinct

Mail-in ballot = voter's body is at home and in their precinct

[jlisenbe]

So in both cases the person gets an absentee ballot and mails it in? Doesn't that still pretty much amount to a distinction without, at the very least, a meaningful difference?

[Wondergirl]

So in both cases the person gets an absentee ballot and mails it in? Doesn't that still pretty much amount to a distinction without, at the very least, a meaningful difference?

I get a real ballot. I'm where I should be, at my address on file in the county election office.

"Follow your state’s instructions for requesting an absentee or vote-by-mail ballot." (usa.gov site)

[jlisenbe]

Did the others get a fake ballot?

[Wondergirl]

Did the others get a fake ballot?

Have never seen one. The way the repubes scream, it must be.

[tomder55]

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