We have been receiving elections-related correspondence for someone named Aaron France who does not and never has lived at our address. (We are the first and only occupants of our home.) I’ve been growing increasingly concerned about this, as has my husband, but are confident that since we both voted in the primary and have our addresses on our driver licenses, that we’ll be ok to vote on Election Day.
However, we received an absentee ballot for someone at our address. How does this happen? And what is to prevent us from filling it out to our satisfaction and sending it in? Would his absentee ballot be checked and cross checked for validity?
I have contacted Forward Montana for advice and will post my findings here on this blog. Please be aware of this problem and do your best to promote the ethical and legal use of absentee ballots.
Update: It is a relief to discover that this was an honest mistake; the elections office had his address wrong. I am surprised, though, that they’ll let me walk it over to him and will accept a ballot with an incorrect address on it. I am sure glad that I called about it!
2 Comments
October 17, 2008 at 12:23 am
I’m glad it was sorted out. The elections office said they thought it was a typo.
October 17, 2008 at 12:35 am
I’m glad this got cleared up. I passed this along to the Missoula County Elections office. I talked to them again this afternoon when I went to vote and they said that it was apparently just a typo.
Thanks for following up on it.