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This isn't 'Nam, there are rules.

If your ballot shows up a year later does it deserve to be counted? No, it doesn't.

You seem to be taking the position of the end of Trading Places, screaming "turn those machines back on!"

You set a deadline. Everything past the deadline is discarded. California allows for an 8-day buffer, which is artificial.

Lobby to mail the ballots 8 days earlier if that would make you happy.

[pesus]

You should probably actually look up the rules that actually exist rather than getting upset over the ones you imagined.

[kelseyfrog]

The rule is postmark. You seem to think that the rules you're making up are correct. Maybe don't do that?