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16 may decide Library vote
According to Vern Spatz, the Grays Harbor County Auditor, letters have been mailed to 16 Ocean Shores voters, informing them that they either did not sign their ballots, or have “signatures that do not match.” (“This means that when we checked the signature on the outside of the ballot envelope it did not match the one given us by the voter and imaged into our system.”)
These 16 have until Tuesday, Aug. 31, at 5 p.m., to respond. As of the last count, there were four more votes to “Approve” the .22 cent lid lift/levy for the Library than to reject the measure.
Spatz added some interesting, non-Ocean Shores information:
“In addition to the above we have a stack about 7 inches high of envelopes with invalid postmarks, ballots from 2 deceased voters, a set where the husband and wife signed each otherуs ballots, 3 security-only envelopes (no voter id), 1 ballot from a prior election (happens all the time!), and 2 provisional envelopes (not a registered voter). None of these will be included in the OS totals.
“Any new mail received until we certify that has a proper postmark will be included in the final results. Typically at this point I wouldnуt expect anything significant, or anything at all.”
A lot of people objected to that over here this time CAC, although I have to say, I put my return address complete with names on the front of my envelope, so I didn’t really have an issue with that. However, our phone is unlisted unpublished and we pay for that privilege, so we did not put our phone number on it since it was exposed. They didn’t require the phone number…
I really did not like that they did not have the flap over the signatures this time. We try to protect our information from internet, mail and other crooks all the time. However, here they want us to mail our ballots back, which are seen by who knows whom, with the signature right out there. It is not like there have not been crimes at the postal service facliites across the country.