Why college students don’t vote absentee? They don’t know where to buy a postage stamp (thought, solution)

[uggabugga]

weakest excuse ever.

A Fairfax County focus group this summer found many college students who have gotten an absentee ballot simply fail to send it back because a U.S. Postal Service stamp seems to be a foreign concept to them.

“One thing that came up, which I had heard from my own kids but I thought they were just nerdy, was that the students will go through the process of applying for a mail-in absentee ballot, they will fill out the ballot, and then, they don’t know where to get stamps,” Lisa Connors with the Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs said.

“That seems to be like a hump that they can’t get across.”
https://wtop.com/local/2018/09/why-c...postage-stamp/

[PCALMike]

That shouldnt be required to do anyway.

Its just embarrassing how low our voter turnout is compared to other countries. But the ruling class want it that way.

[pknopp]

I do not know the motive here but I call B.S.

Send the completed application to our office using one of the following methods:

Scan then email the application to [email]absenteeballot@fairfaxcounty.gov[/email

There is likely not a single college student anywhere that is not capable of doing this.

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/elections/absentee

[evening sun]

I drop my mail in ballot, at the precinct, on election day, but I feel the envelopes should be postage free. I can't belive an adult does not know where to buy a stamp.

[J_Quayle_Higgins_III]

If they are in state at a state school, I see know reason why the legislature wouldn't let the school have a mechanism to allow students to vote there. Out of states students, it is understandable that they would have to vote absentee.

I doubt it is just college students, I would bet that if in the next election my state said that all voting would have to be done by mail, that participation would drop in most demographics. A simple solution to this would be to at least allow early voting for college students, the military or those that travel for work.

[Smash255]

When I was in college I just registered to vote on Campus, had our own Precinct.

[pknopp]

Originally Posted by evening sun

I drop my mail in ballot, at the precinct, on election day, but I feel the envelopes should be postage free. I can't belive an adult does not know where to buy a stamp.

It's not a real complaint as I showed above. They do not have to mail it back. They can email it back and they all know how to do that. We are discussing college students here.

[travis t]

Here in Washington we have all-mail voting. Stamps used to be required, but just this year the envelopes were changed to pre-paid postage. Perhaps just for this reason.

I don't doubt that there were people who didn't have stamps, and would not want to buy a whole booklet just to be able to vote.

[pknopp]

Originally Posted by travis t

Here in Washington we have all-mail voting. Stamps used to be required, but just this year the envelopes were changed to pre-paid postage. Perhaps just for this reason.

I don't doubt that there were people who didn't have stamps, and would not want to buy a whole booklet just to be able to vote.

Why would they have to buy a whole book? (I imagine you know they would not)

[J_Quayle_Higgins_III]

Originally Posted by travis t

Here in Washington we have all-mail voting. Stamps used to be required, but just this year the envelopes were changed to pre-paid postage. Perhaps just for this reason.

I don't doubt that there were people who didn't have stamps, and would not want to buy a whole booklet just to be able to vote.

I like the idea of all mail voting, but I feel like it would be so easy for someone to mess with. Do they take enough safeguards that you don't worry?

I like being able to see a confirmation that my vote was entered. We have electronic voting machines that also prints a paper receipt on the side so you know there is something for an audit and that the machine couldn't completely change a vote. I like that.