REPORT: Millenial Voters Struggle To Find Stamps For Their Mail-In Ballots
Patrick Howley
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As the early voting havoc begins, one demographic is struggling to mail in their absentee ballots due to logistical concerns.
Millenials in Virginia were found to be inadequate at figuring out how to find stamps to mail their ballots. This could complicate Democrat efforts — practiced widely in the 2016 election and during the special elections — to get college kids to register to vote where they go to school, not where they are from. This is one of the better Democrat tactics for boosting votes.
But the voters need some help.
WTOP recently reported: “One thing that came up, which I had heard from my own kids but I thought they were just nerdy, was that the students will go through the process of applying for a mail-in absentee ballot, they will fill out the ballot, and then, they don’t know where to get stamps,” Lisa Connors with the Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs said. “That seems to be like a hump that they can’t get across.”
The focus group included college interns from across numerous county departments.
“They all agreed that they knew lots of people who did not send in their ballots because it was too much of a hassle or they didn’t know where to get a stamp,” Connors said.
“Across the board, they were all nodding and had a very spirited conversation about ‘Oh yeah, I know so many people who didn’t send theirs in because they didn’t have a stamp.’”
To take on the apparent challenge, the county hopes many students will vote in-person absentee while visiting home during fall breaks. In-person absentee voting begins Friday.
“We’re really working on information to get the college students to be able to actually vote where they’re registered and vote absentee because it’s very confusing and it has a lot of pieces that can sort of go wrong in the middle of it,” said Kate Hanley, Fairfax County Electoral Board secretary….
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