Posted on 08/27/2022 5:05:32 AM PDT by george76
In the middle of the election cycle, the Pennsylvania Department of State has suddenly changed its voter registration application form to include a mail-in ballot application.
The applications used to be on separate forms, but this seemingly small clerical change is creating logistical headaches for county election directors and causing voter confusion.
Registering to vote and seeking a mail-in ballot are two different actions requiring different responses in the county election offices.
“We use the voter registration application for one thing, we use a mail-in ballot application for something different,” Christa Miller, Lancaster County’s election director, told The Epoch Times. “One has to be done before the other. Obviously, you have to be a voter in order to get a detailed ballot, so that has to be processed first. And then your mail-in ballot application can be processed. We also file them all completely different.”
All voter registration applications are filed together, and mail-in ballot applications are filed separately. That is because, as per state law, county election offices must mail an application each year to everyone who asked to be on the permanent mail-in ballot list.
“In February, we have to send them an application for that calendar year,” Miller said. Then the voter must send it back, confirming they want to participate in mail-in voting for the year. The office files the mail-in applications alphabetically.
Procedure Changed in Middle of Election Cycle Between the May primary and the November general election, the county elections office fields a lot of calls from voters who want to verify they checked the mail-in ballot box or to check the address where the ballot will be sent.
Instead of going though something like 400,000 voter registration forms, it’s easier to go through 30,000 specific mail-in ballot forms.
The Department of State combined the documents and implemented the new form on Aug. 19, which was 13 weeks after the primary and just 11 weeks before the general election.
Now the county is processing the first half of the form—getting a person registered to vote—and then making a copy of the form to process the mail-in ballot portion and file that copy separately.
Voters have questions about the new form, too, Miller said. They are not sure if they are registering to vote or registering for mail-in voting, so it has taken some education.
“As election officials, we asked [the state] to wait until December. This is going to take voter education and explaining how the new form works,” Miller said. “There’s a big election coming up in November. I think everybody in Pennsylvania knows that. And all we wanted to do was wait until December to let us keep our offices going the way that they’re going. Not having to teach our staff new ways of doing things, and voters new ways of doing things. You know, keep things the same at least through November.”
Jonathan Marks, deputy secretary at the Pennsylvania Department of State, told The Philadelphia Inquirer the goal of the change is to simplify the process, so voters don’t have to fill out two forms.
The Epoch Times asked the Department of State why it didn’t wait until after the election cycle to change the form. The department did not respond by press time.
In addition to combining the voter registration and mail-in ballot applications, the state also changed the gender identification options on the forms.
Voters may now choose male, female, or nonbinary/other.
Ensuring every registered voter has a mail in ballot that will be dropped into a box
Pennsylvania went from the strictest election laws to a free for all. With a republican state senate and house, how did they allow this to happen?
Democrat Attorney General (now running for Governor) and Soros Democrat Supreme Court changing the rules.
Legislature votes, current Dem governor vetoes.
The letter after the name means jack anymore.
The only reason political parties still exist is to give voters the illusion of choice.
A pol is either loyal to our former republic or to Deep State.
PA’s pols are Deep State.
And PA’s voters have yet to get that.
That’s how it happened.
Such an unfortunate way to run a state.
Yes, and our Trump-endorsed nominee for US Senate, Dr Azz, has been a member of the World Economic Forum since 1999, writing papers about socialized healthcare and receiving a notation for “Leader of Tomorrow”.
You opened my eyes.
I’m voting for the Communist!
Isn’t it becoming clear that both parties are in on the election thefts and fraud. It’s like they need the fraud set up to retain power. We need a paper ballot system … one day to vote… all votes counted at the precinct before they are “turned over” to the clerk… This mail in set up is in response to the overwhelming success of the 2020 steal.
You are choosing between two communists. I choose to not vote for either, but you go ahead and commit suicide by empowering the WEF so they can sweep the constitution away.
The far left Pa. Supreme Court makes all the rules when it comes to voting. We have a judicialocracy here in Pa.
All you have to do is vote.
We’ll do EVERYTHING else.
The illusion of a choice where the only real result is slavery.
This is why any election we have will be fraudulent. The RATs invent ways to cheat in every state.
You are a pessimist.
Live with it. I won’t.
Which one?
:: You opened my eyes. I’m voting for the Communist! ::
Don’t be fooled by appearances.
Islam IS a communism.
Muh tagline
Neither one.
Dr. Oz is not a Communist.
If you all choose to believe that...tell me...
WHAT ARE YOU GOINT TO DO???
Boy genius staffers made a legislative “deal” where they allowed a mail in free for all in exchange for eliminating one party voting options on ballots (Act44 ?). They thought it was a big win. They outsmarted themselves because new voting systems do not lend themselves to the one switch that was common on all old technology machines. So now all voters now need to actually read ballots and vote for individual candidates, but the security of the ballots and methodology of how they are collected and tallied can be gamed. This is what allowed the 2020 election in PA to be compromised.
Do you stomp your feet when you say this? It sounds like a tantrum.
Voting for the lesser of two evils has allowed evil to grow.
You just want to continue this charade that Dr Azz can make a difference.
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