Warning if you vote Absentee in Va

[rogue emissary]

Witness signatures required to vote through the mail
By Isabel Cleary
Updated: Sep. 20, 2021 at 9:20 AM EDT

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Early voting is underway for the November elections, and while many things may be the same, there is one important difference for those voting through the mail.

If you are voting through the mail you need to make sure that the witness signature line is signed if you want your vote counted.

“It’s not going to be something that we just deny right away, we will talk to the voter and come up with a way,” Charlottesville Acting General Registrar and Director of Elections Taylor Yowell said.

Without that witness signature the process won’t be so smooth.

“If it’s just that the voter themselves forgot to sign the ballot, they can come in and sign it. But if it’s a witness they didn’t get, it gets a little more complicated,” Registrar and Director of Elections for Albemarle County Jake Washburne said . . .

https://www.nbc12.com/2021/09/20/witness-signatures-required-vote-through-mail/

Just got an email saying my ballot has an error no witness. Now I'm not sure if I'm voting this year. None of the options works for me in this age of COVID.

[abqtommy]

1. Thanks for the heads-up! Hope you get your issue resolved. nt

[underpants]

2. Kick

[marble falls]

3. No matter what, VOTE. If your vote weren't improtant, it would be easier for you to vote!

[rogue emissary]

4. I will, just hate imposing on my friends.

All of last year I voted Absentee without a witness. The lapse is only because Northam hasn't declared a state of emergency.

[marble falls]

5. Your friends will always understand.

[JudyM]

6. Kicking

Got my ballot in the mail yesterday.