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RE: [RC] AERC voting ballots - heidiWhile this may not be a presidential election, taking the election process for granted is a serious thing even in "small" elections. While your husband may not care if you vote his ballot (mine does not care, either--I have his permission to do so), there is no way that the people who count the ballots can know that. When they see multiple ballots in one envelope, they see a potential for fraud, even if there was none.
I'm with Susan on this. I'd be mad as all get-out if someone presumed to make my choices, unless I had given them express permission to do so. (That's what my husband does--he is out of the country during the balloting time-frame, and he says that I know the people and he doesn't, so he would ask me who to vote for anyway. Still, I get his consent to do it and ask for his input, because it is HIS ballot!) Even given his permission, I still send them in separate envelopes, because one is his and one is mine.
I was concerned as well when I read the post in which a parent had just automatically voted the junior's ballot without asking--sometimes kids do have some pretty strong reasons why they would or would not vote for somebody! You don't know unless you ask.
Meanwhile, rest assured that the BoD is discussing this issue.
Heidi
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