If anyone reading this is planning to vote 'absentee' by visiting your community's absentee voting location, please ask the clerk to SIGN your ballot envelope WHILE YOU WAIT.
This topic was raised yesterday on the Mark Belling show on WISN when a police officer raised concerns about his experience. After completing his ballot, placing it in the envelope, and signing it, he took the envelope to the counter and presented it to the clerk for their REQUIRED 'witness' signature. The clerk didn't immediately sign the envelope. When the officer questioned her, she said, "they sign them 'later'." The officer demanded the clerk sign his envelope while he waited and she did.
In follow up conversations with election officials, the officials admitted that unsigned envelopes by either the voter or the witness, are invalid and not counted.
I still have unanswered questions: "What happens to the signed envelopes? Are they put in a locked safe until election day? Who puts them there? Who guards the location?" If anyone knows the answer to any of these questions, please let me know.
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