My buddy and best friend since kindergarten, Brian, in the hospital awaiting a heart transplant at UVA, had trouble figuring out how to cast his vote in the 2024 elections, to the point where he was about to just give up.
It’s figured out now – he’s going to make a request for an absentee ballot, the local voter office will send him an application by mail, his wife will then drive it over for him to fill out and sign, and then once the voter office verifies him, he gets to vote by mail.
Shouldn’t take all of that, not in 2024.
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“I have spent the last 45 minutes trying to set up the process to vote by mail. However, the security protocols on the website prohibit me from doing so, as I don’t have two documented government signatures on my file,” he told me in a text last week, as he struggled to find a solution.
Working through the issue, he was advised to go to the DMV so somebody there could hit a button to authorize his signature on file there.
Which is fine, except for the part about him being in the hospital awaiting a heart transplant.
“I just laughed. It’s so secure that I can’t vote,” he texted me.
Keep all of this in mind when you hear Donald Trump and his minions bluster about mail-in, early voting and absentee voting not being secure.
Brian’s final message on this:
“Not secure, they will preach to you. Can’t be trusted, says the orange con man. Wow. Seems someone is lying again to the masses about the security of mail votes. I just want to do my part to save our democracy.”
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