At least one absentee ballot

[mothra1orbit]

has been cast in Pa., and it's a straight democratic vote. It belongs to my disabled daughter, who has never missed an election.

[Maru Kitteh]

1. YAY! Does PA have a means to track your ballot when you send it in?

We do in Montana, which reminds me, I need to check on mine.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

2. I just checked my blind brother's absentee ballot in Ohio. It was...

... received and approved. He voted all-Democrat too.

I then decided to look up my oldest sibling and her husband. They received absentee ballots in the mail too, but they haven't sent them in yet! They're both staunch Republicans who claimed they would NOT vote for Trump! Maybe they'll simply not vote at all? I can hope!

[mothra1orbit]

3. I don't think so

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Other than the return address on the outer envelope (which has my name on it), there are no identifiers on the ballot itself or on the inner envelope.

When I was a committee person a million years ago, the absentee ballots were not even opened unless they were needed to settle a close race--i.e. if the margin was 150 votes and we had four absentee ballots, they would not even be counted.

Edited to add: I misspoke. My daughter made her mark (she can't sign her name) on the inner envelope, and I printed my address (as witness to her mark) in the same place. The ballot itself, however, did not have anything on it to identify whose it was, which is proper.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

4. That's too bad.

Here's how the board of elections absentee ballot search looks here. This one's for Montgomery County.
http://www.voterfind.com/montgomeryoh/avlookup.aspx

It shows when ballots were sent and received/approved, among other things.

[Maru Kitteh]

5. That's unconscionable! EVERY vote should be counted. Period.

[mothra1orbit]

6. Is anyone else here a fan of "Adam Ruins Everything" on truTV?

I highly recommend the episode "Adam Ruins Voting" at http://www.trutv.com/full-episodes/adam-ruins-everything/2065341/index.html

It will make you jaded. There's a lot most of us don't know about how elections truly are run.

[Wounded Bear]

7. We have all vote-by-mail here. Just checked my ballot progress...

it has been received and verified and will be counted.