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Previous voting records
Category: Relationships and Society > Politics Asked by: bigsticks-ga List Price: $2.00 |
Posted:
07 Oct 2003 09:15 PDT
Expires: 06 Nov 2003 08:15 PST Question ID: 263475 |
Is there any way I can find out how I voted in previous elections (I've lived in IL and CA)? |
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Re: Previous voting records
Answered By: knowledge_seeker-ga on 07 Oct 2003 10:56 PDT Rated: |
No bigsticks, Im afraid unless YOU recorded the information somewhere there is no way to find out how you voted in any previous election. The United States guarantees voters the right to a secret ballot. This means that there is no record that correlates you with how you voted. When you step into a voting booth and flip the levers, your votes are added to the cumulative votes of all the people who went before you. When you finish voting and pull the handle that opens the voting booth, all the levers you flipped are returned to their original position and your vote is recorded. At the end of the voting day, the machine is locked and tallied and then sealed for 30 days in case a recount is called for. Since you have to be registered to vote and must show ID to prove your eligibility before you cast your ballot, there would be a record on file in the jurisdiction where you voted that indicates that you DID vote. But there will be no record of HOW you voted. Here is some further information on voting and secret ballots. voting machines furnish no tangible evidence of the voters' intentions beyond the recorded totals BALLOTING http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/aae/side/election.html ABOUT VOTING MACHINES http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/aae/side/votemchn.html CALIFORNIA VOTER INFORMATION SECRET BALLOT http://voterguide.ss.ca.gov/voter/3-1-voter-rights.html And here is where you can find more information specific to each of the states where you lived: CALIFORNIA BOARD OF ELECTIONS http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/elections.htm ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS http://www.elections.state.il.us/ Hope this information helps you out. -K~ search terms: secret ballot voter rights secret ballot | |
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Re: Previous voting records
From: ericbee-ga on 07 Oct 2003 09:28 PDT |
Your personal voting record is not filed with any government organization. If you registered as a Democrat, Repunblican, etc., that information is on file, but there is no way to obtain a list of specific candidates you voted for in the past. |
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Re: Previous voting records
From: slim63-ga on 24 Dec 2004 06:30 PST |
I'm trying to find out if I DID vote in a previous election. I voted by absentee ballot in Florida in 2000 and I've always assumed that my vote was counted. But with recent news I've been hearing about the Wash. governors election, I'm beginning to wonder: The reason they discovered that 700 ballots were not counted was because a high-ranking Washington official noticed his name on the list of voters whose votes were disqualified and never counted. The balots weretotally legitimate, but they weren't counted because some of the poll workers made a mistake. Now I wonder if MY absentee ballot was disqualified or not. How can I find out if my absentee ballot was accepted/counted? |
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