Spent Thursday phoning to chase ballots for Biden in Nevada that need to be "cured." The voter had made a mistake on their legal mail-in ballots, often by providing an unrecognizable signature. State law allows them to prove their identity for more than a week after the vote is disallowed; we're finding the voters and sending them off to the county registrars. Many are young and/or Spanish speakers. Biden may not need these votes to surmount Trump's Nevada total--but just in case, we are leaving no vote unlocated!
When this is well and truly over -- YIPPEE! -- I will sleep.
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How on earth can you find the voters?
Bonnie: the election department publishes a list of voters whose ballots have not been accepted and need to be "cured." It is public information. They are also supposed to contact the voters themselves -- and they may be doing that. But we take the public information and call these people up, or knock on their doors, and explain how they can make their vote count by responding to the county registrar. We don't know who these folks voted for, but you can usually guess as they tend to be young. This is a tiny number of votes, but Georgia is showing us that tiny numbers of votes can matter in our crazy system.
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