[FRIAM] NM Absentee Ballots

[Steve Smith]

Gary -

Thanks for sharing this.  One of the things I appreciate about this list
is it's wide geographic (if not so much demographic) distribution.  
Your experience as an Expat in a South American country has been very
helpful to me for some parallax.  I heard from another member off-list
that they were temporarily in a "near" swing state caring for a relative
and have established residency there.   Mary considered returning to WI
this summer to help her daughter (continue) raising their twins at least
through the transition of "back to school" (they are first-time
preschoolers, in a pod related to the day care they were in before
COVID), with the added bonus of being a WI resident come election
time.   It seems a shame to have to be trying to make every damn vote
count to the hilt these days, but in the spirit of "when they go low, we
go high", it is a challenge to remain both within the spirit and letter
of our consensual rules (laws) when a large faction is willing to step
over that line.  

The battle over RBG's seat on the Supreme Court is likely to create a
much higher contrast illumination of the hypocrisy on the Right, but it
is not clear if that will be enough to flip the Senate or any of the
Electoral College Swing States.

"we get the government we deserve" is so prophetic, yet painfully
ambiguous...




On 9/19/20 11:03 AM, Gary Schiltz wrote:
> Since Karen and I both live outside the USA, but are eligible to vote
> and last voted in New Mexico, we started the process of voting by
> absentee ballot. I was pleasantly surprised to find that we could send
> our signed, scanned request forms to the county clerk (we last lived
> in San Miguel county) by email, and that we could receive our absentee
> ballots, along with Affidavits of Eligibility forms, by email as well.
> I am in absolute agreement with this as a policy. I was, however, very
> surprised that the email, as well as the affidavit, states that we can
> return both the signed and scanned affidavit, and the filled and
> scanned ballot itself by email or fax. While I personally have no
> problem with people knowing who I voted for, I'm sure that many people
> do. Such a wide open system seems rife for potential abuse.
>
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