Post by @kims@mas.to

Hey @mattblaze
My oldest kid moved to NYC as a student in 2023. We continued to receive ballots for him here as this was still his primary address, and he voted in NV in the 2024 presidential election

In 2025 he started working in NYC (while still a student) and voted in the NYC primary as he now considered himself a resident by virtue of receiving tax documents there

He never actively canceled his registration here. I am sure he thought it happened automagically once he voted in NY. He has obviously not voted in NV since voting in NY, and wouldn't do so unless he moved back here.

We received a ballot for him at our address a few days ago. I am not asking this as a hypothetical — we have already started the process of de-registering him in NV. But it got me curious

What is the mechanism for catching that? Aside from the obvious cheaters, I'm sure there are people who do this by accident or without knowing it's illegal.

And if it's discovered, are both votes invalidated?

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@20002ist@thepit.social 2 hr. ago

@kims @mattblaze IDK how it works everywhere else but can say with certainty that DC takes note of reports sent to it by ERIC to catch double-voters. Based on a review of DCBoE admin orders, IMO the review happens well after a given election & thus doesn’t result in vote invalidation.

Sample order: https://dcboe.org/getContentAsset/bad7a1aa-5e72-41c5-bc30-510ecdfc83d9/5ebbd046-860b-4ee1-81c8-43d0e3bc446e/Final-Order-Micaiah-Lewis-080626.pdf?language=en

https://dcboe.org/getContentAsset/bad7a1aa-5e72-41c5-bc30-510ecdfc83d9/5ebbd046-860b-4ee1-81c8-43d0e3bc446e/Final-Order-Micaiah-Lewis-080626.pdf?language=en

Matt Blaze

@mattblaze@federate.social 1 hr. ago

@20002ist @kims As I understand it (and you should get specific legal advice, etc), there is no affirmative duty to invalidate your previous voter registration when you move, AS LONG AS YOU DON’T ACTUALLY VOTE in the old place. But there may be unpleasant side effects of the old registration, such as being on the jury duty rolls. (Philly has been very slow to remove my voter registration, despite my best efforts, and still calls me for juries every two years).

Matt Blaze

@mattblaze@federate.social 1 hr. ago

@20002ist @kims Also, there’s generally no way (in any US jurisdiction) to retroactively cancel a regular (non provisional) vote once it’s cast or accepted, since the ballot is de-coupled from the identity of the voter almost immediately.

Kim Scheinberg

@kims@mas.to 1 hr. ago

@mattblaze @20002ist
Are absentee ballots provisional?

Only reason I ask is because when I went up to Nye County* to monitor the re-validating of the absentee ballots, and the ones where signatures didn't match or the vote was ambiguous, all but half a dozen ballots had the names attached.

And when I enquired, it was explained to me that the ones without names were from women in Witness Protection — not for testifying against the mob, but because they'd escaped abusive relationships with cops, judges, etc

There was a whole process for that involving drop boxes and routing through PO Boxes and all kinds of other (necessary) subterfuge

* I had to go to Nye, a 3.5 hour drive from Las Vegas, because they required a D and an R in the room at all times to monitor the process. And apparently there are no Ds in Nye County

So I guess the overarching answer to my first question is ERIC, which of course R states have been withdrawing from

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