EDIT: See @AnimePhantasm comment below! My friend called the election board and they confirmed what @AnimePhantasm and @fmstrat commented! This was Virginia reusing last year’s envelopes.

OP I am an absentee voter in Blacksburg just next door. Shine a light on the blacked out part. I am 99% sure this is legit, they just crossed out the witness requirement. I can see the word witness under the sharpie in your picture. Virgina doesnt have to do that witness thing anymore. We did at the last general election, so I am guessing they just reused the same envelopes. You should call and ask your elections office before alerting the news. They are hardworking folks whose jobs are already 100 times harder then they used to be. Stirring up reports of election fraud where it isn’t happening makes us just as bad as them.

  • mkwt@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 days ago

    When I did absentee voting, the voter signature and voter id information were on a perforated slip attached to the outside of the envelope.

    That way, the process is something like:

    1. Look at the slip. Verify voter signature, eligibility to vote, and mark as having voted in the voter rolls.
    2. Detach perforated slip from sealed envelope. Sealed envelope now contains no identifying information. (This envelope was mailed inside an outer mailing envelope.)
    3. Entire sealed envelope and contents thereof goes into big bin of accepted ballots.
    4. Later, election workers open the sealed envelopes from the bin and run the actual ballot papers through the scantron machine.