Want to make sure your vote counts? Now if you vote by mail, you can follow your ballot’s every move like a UPS package.
It can be as simple as signing up for text messages. Here’s one I got recently in California, where every voter gets sent a ballot in the mail: “Your ballot for the upcoming Nov. 8, 2022, General Election has been mailed to you. If you haven’t received your ballot within 7 business days, please contact us.”
For once, there’s a new use for technology that might build confidence in our democracy, rather than tear it down.Ballot-tracking tech lets you see that your ballot is on its way to you and whether it has safely arrived once you’ve mailed it in.Who you vote for remains totally private. Using this tech doesn’t give the government a new way to track you.
In most places, you’ll need to take action to get ballot tracking, either by logging into a website or signing up for alerts. This is probably separate from registering to vote or requesting an absentee ballot. Ballot tracking won’t end all our debates about election fraud and making voting accessible to everyone. But the transparency helps us hold local election officials and the U.S.Advertisement
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