having done absentee voting from overseas now i've gotta say the instructions were totally not clear and looking at the reasons that ballots can be rejected it could be that my ballot was rejected even though i'm sure the ballot itself would be clear to read. but who knows...seems to me that an election official could be totally anal and reject things for all kinds of reasons that don't really have to do with whether you can tell who the person voted for.
the biggest one i see is Voter name/address on return envelope different than on absentee application - you could be putting your address in the states on your application and then use your overseas address on the return envelope.
another example is that the file e-mailed to me was meant to be printed out on legal size paper, which doesn't even exist in samoa, but the instructions for the ballot said not to change the size of the document - the default printout for the pc office computer was to make it fit on a normal size paper and i had to fiddle around alot to get it to print out on two pieces of paper so it would be like a legal size document, and i taped these two papers together. maybe some election official would open that ballot and look at it like 'WTF is this shit'?
people here are often not going to be able to understand the circumstances the absentee voter is voting under. it was not easy to get my ballot in on time and the emailed file i received was really not useful and i lived in a relatively well developed country so someone living somewhere else would have even more trouble.
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the biggest one i see is Voter name/address on return envelope different than on absentee application - you could be putting your address in the states on your application and then use your overseas address on the return envelope.
another example is that the file e-mailed to me was meant to be printed out on legal size paper, which doesn't even exist in samoa, but the instructions for the ballot said not to change the size of the document - the default printout for the pc office computer was to make it fit on a normal size paper and i had to fiddle around alot to get it to print out on two pieces of paper so it would be like a legal size document, and i taped these two papers together. maybe some election official would open that ballot and look at it like 'WTF is this shit'?
people here are often not going to be able to understand the circumstances the absentee voter is voting under. it was not easy to get my ballot in on time and the emailed file i received was really not useful and i lived in a relatively well developed country so someone living somewhere else would have even more trouble.