07-28-2014, 06:25 AM
Frankie, I received the replacement envelopes on Saturday -the maillady hand delivered (only because we had a very large priority box also) & I immediately stuck the mail in the freezer (lowest humidity area here)
When I opened my replacement envelopes, the elections office had placed strips of wax paper between the envelope flaps, as I had requested, so they are "good to go"
That said, I only realized there might be a problem after reading Steve1's post... I was all set to just mail the opened & re-glued envelopes without even knowing that would cause a potential problem with the elections office
As stated earlier, sealed up return envelopes are sooo common here, I really doubt most people would even give it a second thought & just open up the sealed envelope & reglue them...I really doubt most of us would actually even think that would invalidate their vote.
I really doubt that there is any way of ever knowing how many ballots may be counted as spoilt merely because of the sealed envelopes, as it seems the front desk personnel & the supervisors are not on the same page as to how common it is this year...just based on Steve1 & my report on the front desk reaction, and my further talks with Cori & Pat (supervisors who assured me that sealed ballot envelopes have not been much of any problem so far last week & were surprised I would be at all worried...)
When I opened my replacement envelopes, the elections office had placed strips of wax paper between the envelope flaps, as I had requested, so they are "good to go"
That said, I only realized there might be a problem after reading Steve1's post... I was all set to just mail the opened & re-glued envelopes without even knowing that would cause a potential problem with the elections office
As stated earlier, sealed up return envelopes are sooo common here, I really doubt most people would even give it a second thought & just open up the sealed envelope & reglue them...I really doubt most of us would actually even think that would invalidate their vote.
I really doubt that there is any way of ever knowing how many ballots may be counted as spoilt merely because of the sealed envelopes, as it seems the front desk personnel & the supervisors are not on the same page as to how common it is this year...just based on Steve1 & my report on the front desk reaction, and my further talks with Cori & Pat (supervisors who assured me that sealed ballot envelopes have not been much of any problem so far last week & were surprised I would be at all worried...)