Regarding absentee ballot

[COOL MAN]

Trying to figure out if I'm going to get one; according to my Board of Elections, it was mailed on OCT 6 (one week ago today) and it still hasn't arrived as yet. I understand a fair number of other folks in my area also haven't received their ballots either,reportedly due to issues with the B of E's vendor. Guess we'll see what happens.

Meanwhile, I was able to view a .pdf of my ballot on the Board of Elections' website, and noticed the Democrats were listed first in line.....someone named Howie Hawkins was listed second (without a named party, though I see he's evidently the Green Party candidate)......the Libertarians were listed third......the Republicans were listed fourth......and the cell for a write-in candidate was listed fifth. FWiW, Kanye West did not make the ballot in Butler County, Ohio (or presumably anywhere else in the State).

Not sure why this was the specific order, unless the listing is/was alphabetical by party (and maybe this is always how the candidates are listed). Curious if anyone else has receved an absentee ballot (or reviewed an exhibit) and found this same order; guess I was expecting the incumbent to be listed first.

 

[WVUBRU]

On the Georgia Ballot I did today, for President Trump was first then Biden then someone else. I didn't read the third name. For most of the races, the Incumbent was listed first but for the runoff in the Senate race replacing Isakson, the names were alphabetical.

I'm guessing the listing of the ballot is a state by state thing. But I've never thought about it.

 

[MichiganHerd]

It's state by state, as well as district by district. Some do them in alphabetical order, some do them based on random draw, etc, although on state wide elections, i.e., President, Governor, Senate, etc., those orders likely are determined on the state level, and local districts can do their own thing with the rest of them, although typically, they follow suit.

 

[COOL MAN]

Not that anyone gives a ****, but our absentee ballots arrived yesterday.

 

[mule_eer]

Trying to figure out if I'm going to get one; according to my Board of Elections, it was mailed on OCT 6 (one week ago today) and it still hasn't arrived as yet. I understand a fair number of other folks in my area also haven't received their ballots either,reportedly due to issues with the B of E's vendor. Guess we'll see what happens.

Meanwhile, I was able to view a .pdf of my ballot on the Board of Elections' website, and noticed the Democrats were listed first in line.....someone named Howie Hawkins was listed second (without a named party, though I see he's evidently the Green Party candidate)......the Libertarians were listed third......the Republicans were listed fourth......and the cell for a write-in candidate was listed fifth. FWiW, Kanye West did not make the ballot in Butler County, Ohio (or presumably anywhere else in the State).

Not sure why this was the specific order, unless the listing is/was alphabetical by party (and maybe this is always how the candidates are listed). Curious if anyone else has receved an absentee ballot (or reviewed an exhibit) and found this same order; guess I was expecting the incumbent to be listed first.

Colorado regularly does the mail-in ballot, so they are pretty good at this by now. Those were mailed out on 9 Oct and I got mine on 11 Oct.

We have a ton of presidential candidates. If I remember correctly, Biden was followed by Trump. I believe the third was Don Blankenship (American Constitution party, I think). I think there are 14 options for president.

 

[WVUBRU]

Colorado regularly does the mail-in ballot, so they are pretty good at this by now. Those were mailed out on 9 Oct and I got mine on 11 Oct.

We have a ton of presidential candidates. If I remember correctly, Biden was followed by Trump. I believe the third was Don Blankenship (American Constitution party, I think). I think there are 14 options for president.

Wow. I hope my daughter who has recently moved to Colorado will participate and got registered in time. I'll ask her about the 14 names. Georgia only had 3.

 

[mule_eer]

Colorado regularly does the mail-in ballot, so they are pretty good at this by now. Those were mailed out on 9 Oct and I got mine on 11 Oct.

We have a ton of presidential candidates. If I remember correctly, Biden was followed by Trump. I believe the third was Don Blankenship (American Constitution party, I think). I think there are 14 options for president.

I forgot to note one of my favorite things from the 2016 Colorado ballot, the Nutrition Party candidate, Rod Silva, for President. I look them all up, and the only issue he took a stance on was improving the health of the nation through better nutrition. He got 751 votes. This one has the Approval Voting Party on it. Their big issue is moving to a ranked list style of voting. It's analogous to how the Heisman voting works.

 

[mule_eer]

Wow. I hope my daughter who has recently moved to Colorado will participate and got registered in time. I'll ask her about the 14 names. Georgia only had 3.

You can still go vote in person. They expanded the options to allow mail-in easily though. Basically, once you've requested to do mail-in, you get a ballot mailed for every election. The other thing that changed after 2014 was that Independents (technically called Unaffiliated) get both primary ballots, and you get to choose one (and only one) of those to return. If you register with a specific party affiliation, you only get that party's primary ballot.

 

[COOL MAN]

Colorado regularly does the mail-in ballot, so they are pretty good at this by now. Those were mailed out on 9 Oct and I got mine on 11 Oct.

We have a ton of presidential candidates. If I remember correctly, Biden was followed by Trump. I believe the third was Don Blankenship (American Constitution party, I think). I think there are 14 options for president.

This does prompt the question as to how many different "candidates" are actually listed on a ballot in at least one of the 50 states (or territories) that vote for US President......but jeez, 14 candidates in Colorado alone. Can't imagine there are too many more than that......curious if Kanye was one of the 14.

I forgot to note one of my favorite things from the 2016 Colorado ballot, the Nutrition Party candidate, Rod Silva, for President. I look them all up, and the only issue he took a stance on was improving the health of the nation through better nutrition. He got 751 votes. This one has the Approval Voting Party on it. Their big issue is moving to a ranked list style of voting. It's analogous to how the Heisman voting works.

Gotta love the "Nutrition Party" [banana]........but I'm not sure how I feel about the "Approval Voting Party"

 

[mule_eer]

This does prompt the question as to how many different "candidates" are actually listed on a ballot in at least one of the 50 states (or territories) that vote for US President......but jeez, 14 candidates in Colorado alone. Can't imagine there are too many more than that......curious if Kanye was one of the 14.



Gotta love the "Nutrition Party" [banana]........but I'm not sure how I feel about the "Approval Voting Party"

Kanye is indeed one of the 14. In 2016 I looked into all of the candidates on the ballot, but I restricted my choices to only those candidates who could potentially make it to 270 electoral votes. The research was mostly out of curiosity. I was curious about what the "third" party stances were on some issues. Last time around there was a Veterans party candidate, and the guy was reasonable and pragmatic. That ticket was only on a few ballots, so I did not vote for it. I was somewhat disappointed that they weren't on the ballot this time around.

I've heard a lot about the ranked choice ballots over the last couple of years, most of it interviews with proponents of that idea. I can't say that I'm sold on it. As I understand it, you can still vote for just one person. If that one person is out of the running, so is your ballot. Basically, the idea is that you count everyone's first place candidate. If that provides a winner with more than 50% of the votes, the process is done. If not, the person who received the fewest first place votes is removed from the list, and the second choice for those ballots is used in a recomputation. Rinse and repeat until you get someone who receives better than 50% of the votes. They label that process the "Instant Runoff". I'm not necessarily opposed to the idea, but I'm not sure it's sliced bread either. Maine adopted it statewide, and they are using it this election cycle.

 

[WVUCOOPER]

I believe the third was Don Blankenship

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

but I restricted my choices to only those candidates who could potentially make it to 270 electoral votes.

You blew it.