My husband called the Board of Elections.
If you want to mail your absentee ballot, the postage will be $1.30
This was answered "live" via a real person at the Lucas County Board of Elections.
Absentee Ballot - postage is $1.30
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/sarcasm on
But what will the poor people do, that is so disenfranchising.
/sarcasm off
posted by Linecrosser on Oct 11, 2012 at 11:15:15 am #
call it in on the Obama phone
posted by justareviewer on Oct 11, 2012 at 11:17:27 am #
I put 3 first class stamps on the absentee ballot and sent it in. It is not a deal breaker at all and we only have one vote.
I'm sick and tired of hearing about those of us who use absentee ballots and what excuses we use. It's call old age or disability or both.
That is probably cheaper than bus fare or gas unless you have the hope and change bus picking you up to vote.
posted by buckeye278 on Oct 11, 2012 at 11:49:23 am # 1 person liked this
"It's call old age or disability or both."
Why do you have to pick on us old people?LOL!
posted by buckeye278 on Oct 11, 2012 at 11:51:08 am #
Yep, a buck-thirty at the post office. All mailed in...can't wait to go to the polls on election day and vote again.
As a fairly conservative member of this board, although $1.30 is not much money, it is a "cost" to practice a guaranteed-as-a-citizen right.
This is a case where it is costing something to cast a legally approved ballot. .02 cents or $100, I think that's wrong.
If Marcy and Sherrod can send me all kinds of mail for free (as part of their Constitutional "franking" privilege), then a citizen should be able to vote for/against their asses through the mail for free. With all the "free for the public" programs out there, why not throw another one on the fire.
posted by oldhometown on Oct 11, 2012 at 02:21:37 pm # 3 people liked this
When I was in Iraq for the first gulf war, there was no postage required to send mail. Why cant the envelopes for the ballots be considered prepaid postage.
posted by Linecrosser on Oct 11, 2012 at 03:27:16 pm #
They're still doing free mail from Iraq for military. However, sending a GI a care package to Iraq costs you through the teeth....
And to answer your question, why would you want the Postal Service to pay for this. They're already broke. The Fed stopped (by law), using prepaids in the 80's.
It was one way from war zone out not the other way. Only for absentee ballots, nothing else.
posted by Linecrosser on Oct 12, 2012 at 01:27:25 am #
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