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Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
Question about mail in voting and these stories we hear about bags of mail missing/undelivered.
Is there some way to confirm your vote has been submitted and counted? Providing you the opportunity to vote in person if it hasn’t? Curious about how this works.
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Yes. Every ballot is barcoded and is scanned upon receipt by the County Recorder. Now the availability of this information varies from state-to-state but you can call and confirm the receipt of your ballot. Some states, like Arizona, have an web-based system where you can track your ballot from when it has been sent out, and to when it has been received. I used this process when the ballots were first sent out, and it was highly accurate. It told me when the ballot was sent out, expected range of date for delivery (two days later), and then when I filled it out and took it right back to a drop box, when it was received (the next day).
How ballots are handled, like everything else with elections, is a states rights thing, so it varies. In Arizona, they pre-count, so my ballot has already been added to the counts. In other states, it is handled differently. This site tells you when ballot counting begins and how absentee and mail in ballots are handled.
https://ballotpedia.org/When_states_..._ballots,_2020