Got someone else’s ballot at my address

[Anonymous]

Right address, completely wrong person and there have never been another other previous owners or anyone else who has lived here. Curious how this happens . I called the state election number and they transferred me to Moco and they said to return to sender

[Anonymous]

Perhaps the person who applied for the ballot used a paper form to apply for it, filled it out with bad penmanship, mailed it, and the MD Election Board volunteer/staffer/intern- person did the best he or she could do decipher said bad penmanship...hence it ended up in your mailbox.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps the person who applied for the ballot used a paper form to apply for it, filled it out with bad penmanship, mailed it, and the MD Election Board volunteer/staffer/intern- person did the best he or she could do decipher said bad penmanship...hence it ended up in your mailbox.

aren’t there double checks ? How could they get the address do wrong ? I looked them up and the person lives in silver spring

[Anonymous]

OP My neighbors reported the same issue. People are going to fill them out thinking they voted, but if the election committee that tallies votes does it’s job, it will see that the name / address probably doesn’t match the rolls. Both sides of this race will exploit the situation.

I'm getting all kinds of voicemails saying I requested an absentee ballot (I did not) and have not turned it in and to be sure I do. What the heck? Never have I felt that there will be major mix ups in the election.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps the person who applied for the ballot used a paper form to apply for it, filled it out with bad penmanship, mailed it, and the MD Election Board volunteer/staffer/intern- person did the best he or she could do decipher said bad penmanship...hence it ended up in your mailbox.

aren’t there double checks ? How could they get the address do wrong ? I looked them up and the person lives in silver spring

To give the benefit of the doubt to the Election Board, you do sign the bottom of the application form that everything you filled out is truthful - home address included, correct? So, if the guy signed off that his home address XYZ then who is the Election Board to question it or compelled to cross-check it.

[Anonymous]

It happened in Brooklyn - 100,000 wrong ballots.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/nyregion/absentee-ballot-nyc-brooklyn.html

[Anonymous]

Fill it out for a straight Blue ticket and send it in. Duh.