Mail-in ballot know-how: What if you are sent more than one ballot?

[RandySF]

Your vote counts, but you only get just one.

So a Maryland voter who got two mail-in ballots for the same person contacted WTOP and wanted to know: What should they do?

Gilberto Zelaya, the community engagement public relations officer for the Montgomery County Board of Elections, said in a case like that, the answer is simple: “Vote one, return the voted one and discard or destroy the other.”

Zelaya said it’s not a common occurrence that a single voter ends up with two mail-in ballots, but there are “checks and balances” to ensure that the completed mail-in ballot will be counted when returned, and that a single voter doesn’t cast more than one ballot.


https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2024/10/mail-in-ballot-know-how-what-if-you-are-sent-more-than-one-ballot/

[stopdiggin]

1. it kind of depressing that super simple

stuff like this actually needs an answer.

(Imagining the poor voter that is just SO confused .. !)

[MichMan]

2. No checks and balances against sending someone more than one ballot ?

[global1]

3. What If This A Way Of Tricking A Voter To Vote Twice &.....

then catching those 2 votes and claiming there was cheating and voter fraud going on.

Could someone purposely send voters 2 marked ballots so they can be culled out of all votes cast and then claim and prove voter fraud.