By: Sharon Aron Baron
The only thing sure in this new world of the COVID-19 virus is that life is uncertain.
While voting in August and November may be the last thing on your mind, it is critical to plan ahead.Â
According to the nonpartisan organization, League of Women Voters Broward County, they don’t want our next election to look like Milwaukee did on April 6.
Due to COVID-19, the city had a shortage of poll workers, and only five in-person voting sites were open from 180, where 18,800 citizens had to wait up to two-and-a-half-hours in line to vote.Â
While it may never happen here, it’s essential to be prepared by requesting a Vote-by-Mail (VBM) ballot by visiting www.browardsoe.org. The VBM on-line request app will automatically pop up, and it takes less than a minute to fill it out.Â
They want voters to think of the VBM ballot as insurance. If you can go out and vote in person during the Early Voting period or on Election Day, then you can just throw the VBM ballot away or take it with you to the polls and give it to the poll worker.
However, if it isn’t safe for you to vote in person, you will have the VBM ballot as a back-up plan to cast your vote. It is a win-win situation. Â
Go to www.browardsoe.org and request your Vote-by-Mail ballot.Â
The League of Women Voters Broward will provide best practices for voting with your VBM ballot as the August and November elections get closer.
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7 comments
So, we can shop at Publix, stand in line to get in Home Depot, but somehow it is too dangerous to vote in person? Hooey! This is a ploy to make voter fraud easier, from who requests the ballot, to who receives the ballot, to who fills out the ballot, to who returns the ballot–the process is rife with possible fraud.
You are drinking the kool-aid about fraud. Show me the fraud. Statistically the amount of fraud is equal or less than thru traditional in-person voting. Also, it is not only a useful means to vote for health reason, but for convenience. Don’t have to wait in line, take time off from work or in some states drive for hours to the polls. If it is good for our President to vote by mail, its good enough for all.
Okay buddy here you are: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/06/25/politics/new-jersey-attorney-general-announces-voting-fraud-charges/index.html
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/06/25/politics/new-jersey-attorney-general-announces-voting-fraud-charges/index.html
Less than 1300 cases of frauds in the ENTIRE USA according to the Heritage report you cited… Again regardless of the method for voting, fraud will exist but at an extremely low level. Voters fraud is statistically irrelevant (very,very rare).
It is not what Donald Trump alleged that “millions of people” voted illegally for Hillary Clinton and otherwise he would have won the popular vote.
Vote by mail should be an option available to all eligible voters.
Here you go again buddy boy
https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/commentary/database-swells-1285-proven-cases-voter-fraud-america
Not sure why you wouldnt want to eliminate ALL fraud, not just the fraud statistically more than in-person voting. Can you make an argument for maintaining that higher level of fraud?
Did I say vote by mail would increase fraud? No.
Voters fraud is statistically irrelevant should it be in-person or vote by mail. What are you thoughts to reduce fraud to “nothing”?