Maryland Ballot Status?

[Anonymous]

My whole family (4 voters) voted by mail in ballot. 2 delivered to the ballot box (3 weeks ago) and 2 mailed. All 4 have the status of "ballot received" rather than "Accepted" Does that mean our votes were not counted?

[Anonymous]

Same here.

[Anonymous]

What is the date received? If the date received was prior to the third, they will be counted. Unless you all forgot to sign them or filled in two spots or something similar.

[Anonymous]

I submitted mine via drop box the first few days of Oct. It took 2-3 weeks to switch to received and they didn't change it to accepted until the day before election day. It took basically 4-5 weeks.

[Anonymous]

It means that either your votes have not been counted YET, or that the system has not yet been updated to reflect that your votes have been counted.

[Anonymous]

It took something like three or four weeks for my ballot status to change from "Received" to "Accepted" (dropped in drop box on 10/1)

[Anonymous]

Same here. I put my ballot in a drop box on the 26th. I know that it was received. I anxiously checked it, hoping to know the status in case I needed to vote in person to correct something. It still says "received". I'm glad that I live in MD -- or this would make me even more nervous.

[Anonymous]

So they call the state before the votes are counted?

[Anonymous]

If I could do it all over again, I would never have done an absentee/mail in ballot. I assume that my ballot, which was marked as received about 5 days after it was put in the ballot box, will be counted. However, as I set here weeks after it was placed in the box and two days after the election, and the check and recheck the status only to see "ballot received," I don't ever want to be in this situation again.

[Anonymous]

OP here..my parents, who also used a ballot box but almost immediately after getting their ballot, had their vote "processed" or counted.

[Anonymous]

If you look on the BoE site there should be plenty of info on this. If you are in MoCo they said that ballots received after 10/21 would not be counted until after election day. They have rejected very few ballots (5 was the last count I saw). If you look at the vote percent, MD says it's about 70% counted. So obviously still a lot of ballots left to be counted.

That being said, Maryland is not exactly a swing state.

[Anonymous]

This is from yesterday.

"The county has received about 331,000 mail-in ballots. Of those, around 175,000 had been accepted, as of Wednesday.

Gilberto Zelaya, a spokesman for the county’s Board of Elections, said during a media briefing on Wednesday that mail-in ballot statuses are still in the process of being flipped from “received” to “accepted” as votes continue to be counted in the coming days."

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/politics/election-turnout-stands-at-78-in-county/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you look on the BoE site there should be plenty of info on this. If you are in MoCo they said that ballots received after 10/21 would not be counted until after election day. They have rejected very few ballots (5 was the last count I saw). If you look at the vote percent, MD says it's about 70% counted. So obviously still a lot of ballots left to be counted.

That being said, Maryland is not exactly a swing state.

Not a swing state for the Presidential election, but there were local elections that are very tight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you look on the BoE site there should be plenty of info on this. If you are in MoCo they said that ballots received after 10/21 would not be counted until after election day. They have rejected very few ballots (5 was the last count I saw). If you look at the vote percent, MD says it's about 70% counted. So obviously still a lot of ballots left to be counted.

That being said, Maryland is not exactly a swing state.

Not a swing state for the Presidential election, but there were local elections that are very tight.

Which ones?

[Anonymous]

Mine still hasn’t been counted. We have become a third world country.