Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness never got his Texas absentee ballot that he requested.
Here's how he still voted — and how you can too if you’re in a similar situation. bit.ly/3mHNvYv
Here's how he still voted — and how you can too if you’re in a similar situation. bit.ly/3mHNvYv
.@jvn wrote in an Instagram post last week that his absentee ballot never arrived at the location where he was going to be working on Election Day, even though officials told him it was mailed out on Oct. 8. bit.ly/3mHNvYv
.@jvn went to his local elections office, filled out the paperwork to cancel his ballot, and then took the paperwork to an early voting site. bit.ly/3mHNvYv
But because the computer system hadn’t yet updated that action in the system, poll workers told him his only option at that moment was to cast a provisional ballot — which he declined to do.
Another call to the elections office led to officials expediting his cancellation, and @jvn was able to vote later in the day.
"The point is it took me like four hours to make sure my vote would count," he wrote. "How many other absentee ballots are lost?"
"The point is it took me like four hours to make sure my vote would count," he wrote. "How many other absentee ballots are lost?"
So what do you do if you’re in a similar situation?
If you applied for a ballot and didn't receive it or don't have your physical ballot for another reason, you can cancel it at your county elections headquarters (or at polling sites in some counties) and then vote.
If you applied for a ballot and didn't receive it or don't have your physical ballot for another reason, you can cancel it at your county elections headquarters (or at polling sites in some counties) and then vote.
If you aren't able to cancel your ballot or application, you can cast a provisional vote that is counted once the deadline for receiving mail-in ballots has passed and your county certifies they didn’t receive a mail-in ballot from you.
Provisional ballots are a last resort for people who are in the county but can’t or don’t want to cancel their absentee ballots, or whose registration is in question when they vote.
Provisional ballots are counted after Election Day if they are found to qualify, but before the official vote canvass is concluded.
If you plan to vote in person but have already received an absentee ballot, you can bring your ballot to the polling locations to surrender it before voting in person.
Read more here. bit.ly/3mHNvYv
Read more here. bit.ly/3mHNvYv
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