The Observer recently reported that 12,295 vote-by-mail registrations in Nassau County had been invalidated by the state. That announcement left many of those voters confused on whether they were still registered to receive a vote-by-mail ballot. Nassau County Supervisor of Elections Janet Adkins issued the following notice of instructions:
“Our office recently received guidance from the Florida Department of State indicating that any vote-by-mail request made before the November 8, 2022, General Election has expired. Out of an abundance of caution, we have consulted with legal counsel multiple times. The Department of State gave our office multiple interpretations of the legislative changes.
“We are working to protect the right to vote and provide opportunities to those voters who requested to vote by mail by sending a letter to the 12,225 voters who requested a ballot for the 2024 Election cycle.
“Any eligible voter who would like to request a vote-by-mail ballot can:
- Call our office at 904-491-7500 to request a 2024 vote-by-mail ballot
- Visit our website online at https://www.votenassaufl.gov/vote-by-mail-request-form
“The Nassau County Elections office continually strives to build trust, create transparency in the elections process, and promote communication with the voters of Nassau County.”
It is not surprising that the Florida Department of State gave our local elections office multiple interpretations of the new law. The political hacks at the state agency have contradictory goals: direct employees to ensure smooth and valid voting processes, while also implementing hastily written laws, passed by hypocritical Republican legislators, designed to make it harder to vote. Secure voting has never been a problem in Florida, whereas fraudulent legislators always has been. As usual, it all comes down to who you vote for.
paranoid much?
I am not paranoid, but I do find it VERY disconcerting when I clicked the link provided in this article to make sure I get on the vote-by-mail request list, I got a 404 error message which read, “The page you are looking for can not be found.” Since there is no by-line, it is impossible to tell who is responsible for this misinformation. The election office? An Observer writer? Or a freelance contributor.
Correctly informing voters about new procedures is critical. Any article on this subject, especially one that includes a link should be verified, before being posted.
There was a missing hyphen in the URL. Thanks for pointing it out; it has been corrected. ~K. Blacklock, Observer proofreader.
Thank you, Kathy.
The bad link is certainly something that should have been verified as working before putting out to the public … it could be the Elections Office expected that to be operational by the time residents would have received their letters and the Observer article was not anticipated. But a phone number was also provided … a simple phone call and you can request a ballot. Wow … so hard. So very very hard. Do you need help dialing?! Wait, now we are requiring people to own a phone or a computer in order to vote!! We are stealing the right to vote for thousands!!!
Of course the best way to ensure you’ve voted and it has been counted is to show up on election day or on one of the MANY MANY early voting days. Trusting the post office to get your ballot properly delivered to you or back to the election office is a bit of a stretch these days and we all know what I’m talking about. Most of us don’t even trust it to properly deliver our bill payments. The USPS of today … sadly … is not what it was 20 years ago. And I mean no disrespect to the mostly wonderful folks who actually deliver the mail.
But the whole exercise gives our liberal friends something to cry and whine about … And they never fail to disappoint. Fear! Fear! they like to scream about this and that. Fear and scare tactics they proclaim are tools of the Right, Organized Religion, and the Republican Party to control the masses of stupid ignorant people that they directly imply make up the bulk of the electorate in this county. They should look in the mirror.
Projection is alive and well.#whining #fear ^
Vote by mail is safe and secure. You can even track your ballot. There’s plenty of time for the USPS to deliver your ballot. Should it not be received in time, there are remedies provided by the SOE.
And again … NOBODY is preventing anybody from voting by mail if that is the route you want to take. Call and ask for a mail-in ballot. And stop whining about how oppressive and hard this is. The idea that one can have a “standing order” for a mail-in ballot into infinity is the problem here. The guy who is mailing in the ballot of the person who died last year or moved away two years ago is relieved “his” vote is “safe and secure”. Wow … he can even track it!!!