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by envy2 2064 days ago
This is straight up FUD.

Yes, you can change a printable ballot form that you then have to PRINT OUT AND RETURN before it is counted. This is no more an "exploit" than a printing a blank ballot, filling it in, and sending it in under someone else's name, or showing up at a polling place and voting as someone else.

It's also fraud and a felony for anyone who does it...

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Not just return it: Return it in a certified, signed ballot envelope that was mailed to a registered voter
Whew, well, that’s good.

So the posts about how in Washington they cancel the original ballot when you go through the print process for a new one are not correct?

That seemed like too obvious a flaw!

The parent commentor is being strangely dismissive and they are 100% wrong. In washington merely printing out a new ballot will immediately cancel the old one. It says it on the damn website.

I can't speak for Oregon, but this is not FUD. I can't imagine any good intentions from someone being so disinterested in the possibility of fraud.

That seems impossibly wrong! Such a glaring flaw in the system should be big news.

Has anyone but 4chan written about this? I wasn’t able to find anything.

> It's also fraud and a felony for anyone who does it...

Because that stops people who are planning to tamper an election in the first place?