Wife’s ballot envelope didn’t have her return address or a bar code to identify that it was her’s

Submitted by ProducePete t3_ydgz2b in Pennsylvania

My wife got her ballot a full week before mine and we didn’t realize that it was odd that she was missing a return address. She sent her ballot in, I then got my ballot a few days later and noticed that mine had a return address and a bar code. We’re assuming her ballot is lost to the ether now and she’ll probably need to vote by provisional ballot.

The reason I’m posting this is so people can be aware of this. Check your ballot return envelopes to make sure it has a return address and bar code. If it happened with my wife’s ballot I’m sure it’s happened to others. If you don’t have them, call your county office.

Edit: In case people still sees this post, my wife called the county office and they, astonishingly, were able to find her ballot and record her vote.

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narwhalfinger t1_its8l78 wrote

I got a link to get a mail in PA ballot through a text. I live in South Carolina.

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WeJustDid46 t1_itsa52j wrote

Please vote in person. That’s the way to get rid of these trumpeters.

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WeJustDid46 t1_itsbk7i wrote

Replying to BeltfedOne (#228,185)

I understand your frustration, I do. However, with all of this BS going on let’s get rid of these insurrectionists first, then we can guarantee the Mail in vote.

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EmergencySundae t1_itscv68 wrote

Replying to WeJustDid46 (#228,296)

Any other election I would vote by mail. I can’t this year because of the shenanigans the GQP has been pulling.

Plus I want a decisive election night victory for Shapiro so we don’t need to deal with Mastriano trying to overturn things for a week.

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Wordnerdinthecity t1_itseuh9 wrote

Replying to ThatGuyOutBackMUT (#228,674)

A lot of get out the vote organizations have outdated lists. My sister still gets mail here urging her to vote and she moved out of state ~6 years ago! It's nonsensical to assume fraud when bad database management is FAR more likely.

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tinacat933 t1_itsfjub wrote

Did you report this to you elections office so they can investigate

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universe_point t1_itsh6ju wrote

I don’t really understand… didn’t she write her return address on the envelope and sign the envelope which would identify it as hers? Mine didn’t come with my return address already on it, it came with 3 blank lines for me to fill it in myself, plus I was required to sign and date the outer envelope in place of signing the voter rolls book that you normally sign upon entering a polling place on Election Day.

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tyrael459 t1_itshk0e wrote

Replying to MulberryDue1179 (#228,165)

What do you mean? She’s a real person, so what the hell is the mystery? If it gets lost in the mail, her provisional ballot on Election Day will go through. If it makes it to the elections office and gets counted, her provisional ballot won’t go through.

Are you just being dense on purpose?

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tyrael459 t1_itshulb wrote

Replying to ThatGuyOutBackMUT (#228,926)

Yea, notification is obviously off. But it would be caught further down the line. Parts of the system aren’t perfect, for sure, but you’re being deliberately coy and broad with your language. I’ve seen your comments. You know full well it would get caught if they tried to go through with it.

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discogeek t1_itsincb wrote

You can contact your county election office. Since ballots aren't opened until Election Day, they'd have it marked as received or not, but not much else. It's legal and standard for the election office to tell voters if their ballot was received or not, and she can ask if the printing error disqualifies her ballot.

Her vote definitely isn't lost, you might have to do a few phone calls to confirm and fix but it's not all that difficult.

Good luck.

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notallwonderarelost t1_itsjk4u wrote

The envelope you actually mail doesn’t have a return address on the front.

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quietreasoning t1_itskwmj wrote

Are you by chance not registered to the same party? Just curious..

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pekepeeps t1_itspol0 wrote

Public alert: before engaging with the trolls, simply touch their avatar, see that they have a new account and are here to sow discord. This will unfortunately get worse the next few weeks.

Type ignore under their name and just downvote instead of using any brain effort they do not deserve.

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quietreasoning t1_itsr8hx wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#230,131)

If OP and their partner received the same thing but one was incomplete and they happen to be registered to different parties, that would be particularly suspicious. That is obvious, doesn't need to be implied. It would warrant investigation. It would take all of five minutes to investigate and find if your theory or something else innocent was causing OP's issue. But really, chill out with the implication sensitivity.

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ProducePete OP t1_itsrrod wrote

Replying to universe_point (#229,040)

Mine wasn’t blank, it had my full name and address in the return address spot and had a barcode underneath to identify the ballot as mine. I just got an email today saying that my ballot was received but my wife, who mailed it in several days before me, hasn’t received any confirmation of them receiving it. Also the PA ballot tracking site says that they haven’t received it.

My wife called the county office and they said that the barcode under the return address should have, and needed to, be there to associate the ballot with her.

From PA Dept of State site about the process of mail in voting, “The outer envelope includes both a unique correspondence ID barcode that links the envelope to the qualified voter’s application and a pre-printed Voter’s Declaration that the voter must sign representing that the voter is qualified to vote the enclosed ballot and has not already voted.“

So if it wasn’t there, contact you county office

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ProducePete OP t1_itssbww wrote

Replying to notallwonderarelost (#229,308)

Mine did and I got an email about the county receiving my ballot whereas my wife didn’t have one or the barcode and they haven’t gotten hers, or at least they don’t know they got it.

From the PA Dept of Stste site, “The outer envelope includes both a unique correspondence ID barcode that links the envelope to the qualified voter’s application and a pre-printed Voter’s Declaration that the voter must sign representing that the voter is qualified to vote the enclosed ballot and has not already voted.“

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Reynard1981 t1_ittvnlx wrote

At least she can always vote in person.

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pekepeeps t1_iud4xu7 wrote

Replying to ProducePete (#230,409)

Apologies on late reply. Near elections, people buy and sell Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok accounts. Or they buy farms of users to start new accounts. In bulk. Corporations do this, politicians do this, even countries do this to get their propaganda out. In some cases real dangerous crap for sure. People still fall for it as I see “real” people arguing with these types of accounts instead of saving their energy.

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