Offs.
Offs. Ask your parents, call or email and ask your local elections board where you obviously figured out how to get the ballot. Ask your university's many student whatever offices. Find out where there's a post office and ask them or take it there in person. You know that you're supposed to mail it back, it's too big a leap to figure out that you could ask the post office or UPS or your college mail room or wherever you mail it back how you get a stamp for it?
Obviously reasoning and problem solving skills are not being successfully taught at college. Or college students don't actually care about voting.
Really, I think absentee ballots should be pre-paid on the postage, but that kind of solution would require adults at elections boards to spend money.
https://www.wivb.com/news/national/study-many-college-students-don-t-know-where-to-buy-a-stamp/1461653103
https://www.wivb.com/news/national/study-many-college-students-don-t-know-where-to-buy-a-stamp/1461653103
Obviously reasoning and problem solving skills are not being successfully taught at college. Or college students don't actually care about voting.
Really, I think absentee ballots should be pre-paid on the postage, but that kind of solution would require adults at elections boards to spend money.
https://www.wivb.com/news/national/study-many-college-students-don-t-know-where-to-buy-a-stamp/1461653103
https://www.wivb.com/news/national/study-many-college-students-don-t-know-where-to-buy-a-stamp/1461653103
Well, it would require legislators to spend someone’s money, but I expect they’d just spend the USPS’ money. Because bankrupting the USPS is also a goal, after all.
ReplyDeleteSeparate issue, but it boggles my mind that we don't appreciate our postal service in this country.
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ReplyDeleteBut I flatly disbelieve these findings.
John Novak I don’t. I mean, I don’t believe that they dont know where to get it. But I definitely believe that it is the biggest hassle in the process, and/or they don’t know any convenient place.
ReplyDeleteWhen the first step is filling out an online form, and the second step is filling the physical thing in, finding out where to go, going physically to some place that sells stamps, putting it on, and dropping it in the mail, step 2 is like an order of magnitude less convenient.
My mail in ballot in Arizona comes with a prepaid envelope. But I wonder if that is a different thing since AZ has a permanent no questions asked sort of mail ballot program. I don't get an absentee ballot, we are just allowed to vote by mail if we want. So, the government actually saves money by being able to reduce polling places.
ReplyDeleteIt's also my understanding that political groups and campaigns are not allowed to provide stamps for people to send in ballots. It is considered exchanging money for votes.
ReplyDeleteWell, that's stupid. I mean, I have never been in a post office without a stamp vending machine. I wonder when they removed them?
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