Most likely it will be postage paid envelope. But the thing is here the taxpayers are paying for that ballot to be printed and for the postage to mail it to you and for the postage to mail it back. Can you imagine, here in LA County if they do mail in voting for every registered voter.. say about 4.3 million registered voters x postage there and back (.47 x 2) = $4 million dollars! And that's just in postage. Paid by your taxes which in turn go to USPS..
But this sort of thing - as opposed to a pencil etc - is fed directly back into a government entity: the USPS. Aside from the susceptibility to fraud, inflicted by a near-universal mail-in ballot, this postage wrinkle places a direct government-imposed monetary barrier in front of voting.
Duly noted that postage is paid in many states. Evidently it was NOT paid, for the thousands of ballots in this story; so those might not be counted. That seems ... objectionable.
Ours come with a postage paid envelope here in Spokane, WA. I'd have to check if it's statewide, I think it might just be our county.
I live in Burlington, it's statewide. However, the prepaid postage is paid with taxes and should be unlawful.....
Same in NJ
Most likely it will be postage paid envelope. But the thing is here the taxpayers are paying for that ballot to be printed and for the postage to mail it to you and for the postage to mail it back. Can you imagine, here in LA County if they do mail in voting for every registered voter.. say about 4.3 million registered voters x postage there and back (.47 x 2) = $4 million dollars! And that's just in postage. Paid by your taxes which in turn go to USPS..
Well technically requiring us to buy a pen or pencil to fill out the ballot is a poll tax.
But this sort of thing - as opposed to a pencil etc - is fed directly back into a government entity: the USPS. Aside from the susceptibility to fraud, inflicted by a near-universal mail-in ballot, this postage wrinkle places a direct government-imposed monetary barrier in front of voting.
Duly noted that postage is paid in many states. Evidently it was NOT paid, for the thousands of ballots in this story; so those might not be counted. That seems ... objectionable.