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ckkatz8/06/2020 2:18:19 pm PDT

Guess what I got today. About 40 minutes ago. Well, this answers my questions:

Mail-in ballot applications in Virginia tap into worries about fraud with faulty instructions
washingtonpost.com

“The Washington-based Center for Voter Information, a nonprofit geared toward increasing voter participation among underrepresented groups, mailed 2.25 million applications for absentee ballots to voters across the state, with a quarter of them containing a return envelope addressed to the wrong election office, the group said Thursday.

The computer error — which mixed up similarly named localities such as Fairfax County and the city of Fairfax — prompted a flurry of phone calls and emails to local election offices from voters convinced that they were the targets of a mail-in ballot fraud scheme.”

“Also, the return address on the outside envelope appears to be the site of a United Parcel Service store in the city of Richmond.”

And that’s also a yup.