EDIT: See @AnimePhantasm comment below! My friend called the election board and they confirmed what @AnimePhantasm and @fmstrat commented! This was Virginia reusing last year’s envelopes.

OP I am an absentee voter in Blacksburg just next door. Shine a light on the blacked out part. I am 99% sure this is legit, they just crossed out the witness requirement. I can see the word witness under the sharpie in your picture. Virgina doesnt have to do that witness thing anymore. We did at the last general election, so I am guessing they just reused the same envelopes. You should call and ask your elections office before alerting the news. They are hardworking folks whose jobs are already 100 times harder then they used to be. Stirring up reports of election fraud where it isn’t happening makes us just as bad as them.

  • otterpop@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 month ago

    I don’t believe there is, and if there was, it could be used for some really nefarious purposes!

    • HappyTimeHarry@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      in my state (OR) you can sign up for an email that says when your ballot was counted but not who you voted for.

      • leds@feddit.dk
        1·
        1 month ago

        Yeah there is a good reason for that to be secret: it prevents buying votes because you can’t prove who you votes for, if someone offers you money to vote a certain way you can always take the money and vote the other way, no way to prove how you voted.

        • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
          12·
          12 days ago

          And they have the right to conceal their vote, as they should, but why should I not have the right to reveal mine even to myself, Necromancer?

          • boydster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            11·
            11 days ago

            That’s not how this started, moving the goalposts is pretty cheap. I was literally linking to an issue happening in this vary election that illustrates why secret ballots are so important. A position which, if you recall, you began by stating was invalid because you misunderstand (or, now more clearly, willfully misrepresent) how democracy in the US works, and your proposed “solution” only helps illustrate the easy ways vote buying and manipulation would be introduced without secret ballots. I’ll block you, for obvious reasons. Good luck

            There is already a record of who voted for what, all of your fears could be taking place as things are now. Making it accessible to the person, even with hoops to jump through, would only be an improvement.

            Edit: additional context for added relevance