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Question: Is it legal to send absentee ballots to elderly people who have requested them in the past, or must they apply to get them each year?
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Queen Mum Inks.LWC
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« on: June 16, 2006, 11:12:12 PM »
This came up for the City of Detroit, but some Wayne Co. communities are saying it applies to them, while others aren't.  Personally, I think they should have to apply each year, so we don't see another City Clerk "fraud" incident like we did in '05 in Detroit.
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« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2006, 08:45:19 AM »
They should apply each election. If the municipality wants to send out a reminder notice to apply several weeks in advance to seniors I think that would be okay but to just send out a ballot would invite fraud on a large scale. Many people may have died between elections yet the temptation to vote their "automatic" absentee ballot would be too great.
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« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2006, 04:30:10 PM »
Quote from: NewFederalist on June 18, 2006, 08:45:19 AM
They should apply each election. If the municipality wants to send out a reminder notice to apply several weeks in advance to seniors I think that would be okay but to just send out a ballot would invite fraud on a large scale. Many people may have died between elections yet the temptation to vote their "automatic" absentee ballot would be too great.

Right, and that's what happened here--I don't know how much out-of-state people heard about it.
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« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2006, 10:22:16 PM »
Isn't this a matter of the state law?
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« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2006, 10:28:41 PM »
Wasn't there another identical thread?
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Queen Mum Inks.LWC
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« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2006, 11:53:11 AM »
Quote from: jfern on June 18, 2006, 10:28:41 PM
Wasn't there another identical thread?

Yes--I started this 1 1st, but only had 3 votes in 3 days, so I put it on the other board, and now this one got attention.
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