Election horror stories/I didn't vote.

[Beet]

I submitted an application for an absentee ballot for Maryland on Oct. 17, the deadline was Oct. 31. They said I would get the ballot in 10 days. After 10 business, I called them, they said they had mailed it out on Oct. 24. As of today, still no ballot. I'm not paying $50 for priority mail if it comes tommorrow or Monday. If this happened to me, what about all the other Maryland residents going to school in other states, who submitted their applications closer to the deadline? Their system is broken.

[Beet]

As of today, still no ballot.

I´ve heard of stories where a letter came to the recipient about 50 years after it was sent. Relax, maybe your post service in Maryland is crap ...

I won't be surprised if it comes the day after the election. Of course at that point it no longer counts, lol.

I really wonder if there are many others in the same situation though.

[Beet]

Ha, that doesn't matter. I was all worked up about it this morning but it doesn't really matter. As Anthony Downs suggests, it might not even be rational to vote at all.

[Beet]

In case anyone cares, my ballot did arrive.

More importantly, I had the wrong idea from talking to the election board worker. It doesn't have to arrive there by tonight, it just has to be postmarked by then. It can arrive up to the second Friday after the election. I apologise to anyone who got the wrong idea about absentee voting from this thread.