Your ballot will not be counted if:
1) You mail it in and forget to sign it,
2) OR IF your signature has changed over time.
3) If you cast your vote in the wrong place / precinct / district / polling place.
4) Sometimes there are "provisional ballots" and they might not be counted.
5) Too many "marks" on the ballot: depending on the marking or writing implement used, some marks might "bleed through" or accidental movements of the hand might cause a stray mark on the ballot. [Note that another person could put a mark on a ballot in order to disqualify that ballot.]
6) Primary elections are run too close to general elections, and the counting of the primary ballots is rushed under time pressures.
See notes from internet research on "spoilt vote" or "spoilt ballot" and various ways that a person's vote is disqualified. Note that these practices are controlled by laws that vary from state to state. In most states, prisoners are not allowed to vote, and in some states a person convicted of a felony is disqualified permanently. In practice, an election official can identify any ballot cast as being a ballot submitted by a person who has been convicted of a felony, because that person's name is on a list of convicted felons. There have been occurrences documented of votes being disqualified because the name of the person voting is the same as the name on the list of convicted felons.
Deliberate voter suppression: Disqualify a ballot (add marks) by selection, consistent with "vote capturing" or Gerrymander, disqualify a ballot from a family name or neighborhood. Political Party Suppression: The “two-party system” has, since 1900, accomplished its thinly veiled purpose to suppress and literally block the development of competing political parties that might threaten the power of the Republican and Democratic parties. The two-party system has resulted in government by an American nobility, by a small minority, and not self-government by the people, referenced by President Abraham Lincoln and the "republican form of government" promised in the constitution.
John Manimas write-in (Campaign 2020) Package.
LINKS to other sections of the CAMPAIGN 2019 PACKAGE:
Open the Campaign (Package 2019).
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What you would be (voting for) and proposed law to establish (obligatory voting).
Why you would become a (Voting Power), and the (Mission 2020) Statement.
To-do organizational plans/strategies:
To-do (Guidelines) for tasks and volunteers.
To-do (Detailed information) on how to be treated as an official candidate.
Elections information:
The (Electoral College) and its problems, a key to election reforms.
State election authorities names and (Addresses).
The Federal Government does not manage elections, but is vested with power to monitor elections or make rules
for election procedures in order to provide the "republican form of government" guaranteed by the Constitution.
(Federal Guide) online PDF for elections of federal offices,
by Federal Elections Commission (FEC).
Elections and political party information – Federalist Papers:
Online access to text of the (Federalist Papers).
Papers, or numbers, of special interest below.
Constitutional information:
There are many text versions of the Constitution of the United States online.
One is a PDF file: (Constitution USA).
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