Quotes about absentee (16 Quotes)


    We realize that a large percentage of Louisiana voters are exercising their constitutional right to vote via absentee ballots. Those ballots are being sent through the mail, and the United States Postal Service stands ready to deliver these ballots to elections officials.

    It's unfortunate, because people who were against the absentee ballot in the first place will use this to say there isn't an adequate constituency for it in the immigrant community. They will use this as an argument for not improving the process to make it more user-friendly.


    With the Fed action taking some of the prospects for a rally away from the market, we're just sitting here quietly waiting to see what happens in Florida with the absentee ballot count.

    While the court does not in any sense condone the irregularities noted by the trail court in the way the applications for absentee ballots were handled. However, these irregularities do not require the voiding of all absentee ballots.


    There was 28.16 percent of the registered voters who voted. For a primary election, that is fairly typical, ... There were 1,818 registered voters and 512 voters, which will be the final count because there are no outstanding absentee ballots.

    We realize that a percentage of Louisiana voters will vote by absentee ballots. We are committed to the residents of New Orleans, wherever they are living now. It is important that displaced residents understand that we will to do our part to make sure that absentee ballots are delivered and counted.

    The fact that SB 84 does not address or impose a photo ID requirement on the two areas in which there have been substantial evidence of both actual and potential voter fraud registration and absentee ballots belies the sponsors' premise.

    We have to keep counting the absentee ballots, because under the law those ballots that we receive a week after the election we have to count as well. So if it is close, we are not going to rush to judgment. We are going to do the responsible thing and make sure we give all of the candidates and the voters of the city of New York real numbers, not numbers that are unofficial.


    We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.

    Campaigns have been very good at getting information from the elections offices on which voters are getting absentee ballots. They're keeping track of who's voting by mail. So I'm sure they're adjusting their strategies for that.

    Protecting voting rights is going to depend on the absentee ballot process. The state has the burden of showing that they have accurate information for locating them. We don't want to have those ballots go out and have them never connect with individuals.


    In fact, we think that the ballots -- both the absentee ballots and the ones that are being hand counted in the three counties in South Florida now -- deserve the benefit of the doubt, ... Fox News Sunday.

    I think the turnout is going to be a surprise. You take a look at what has happened in early vote as well as absentee ballots that have been sent in they seem to be above what election officials had anticipated.



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