https://www.wsaw.com/2020/08/22/absentee-vs-mail-in-voting-whats-the-difference/

威州关于absentee投票和mail in 投票的定义和区别，来自上面de 林克：

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - As the November election draws near, a major topic of discussion has been the difference, or lack thereof, between mail-in voting and absentee voting. NewsChannel 7 spoke with Wausau City Clerk Leslie Kremer and asked her to explain the difference between the two.

“Mail-in voting is requesting, in writing, your ballot to be mailed to you and then you return it by election day,” Kremer explained. “Absentee, early in-person voting is requesting an absentee ballot, in the clerk’s office or wherever they have designated it and voting in the clerk’s office and not being able to leave with that ballot. In both situations, you’re voting absentee, it’s being held until election day to be counted, but it’s absentee either in person or mailing.”

In Wisconsin, any registered voter can request an absentee ballot by mail without excuse.

Universal mail-in voting, which is being conducted in states like Colorado and California and has been criticized by President Donald Trump as being open to fraud, sends ballots to all registered voters whether requested or not.

Kremer says photo identification is required whether you’re requesting a ballot by mail or in person.

“If you are not an indefinitely confined voter, you have to provide photo ID the first time that you request an absentee by mail ballot and then we keep that on file so that if you request absentee mail-in votes in the future, you don’t have to provide that photo ID each time,” Kremer explained, saying that only one ballot can be issued. “Our election workers are at the polls on election day; they’re looking in that pollbook to see, there’s a watermark if that person’s been issued an absentee ballot, so they can’t vote twice. We don’t send out an absentee ballot to anyone unless they have provided the photo ID ahead of time.”

Those same requirements are in place for early in-person absentee voting.

“When you come to city hall to vote, you have to show a photo ID just like you would polls,” Kremer said. “Either which way you have to prove who you are.”

And when it comes to security, Kremer says the proper precautions are in place.

“It is safe and secure,” Kremer assured. “When we receive the absentee ballots back, they are recorded right away, the day that we receive them, and then they’re locked in a secure place in my office until election day so there cannot be any tampering.”

Anyone interested in voting absentee is encouraged to request a ballot sooner rather than later.

见我上面放错了地方的回复。

放错了地方。是回复特有理的。

Why not calculate turnout rates as percentage of registered voters?

If the goal is to calculate turnout rates for eligible voters, isn't the number of people registered to vote the eligible population? This may seem reasonable, but voter registration statistics are not exactly what they may seem.

If one wants to know the effect of a policy like EDR on turnout, a consistent denominator like VEP is preferred to measure effects which would otherwise be confounded by purging practices.

Although voter registration turnout rates may be uninformative for comparison purposes, election officials often calculate turnout rates for registered voters. Some don't, for example, Minnesota reports turnout rates computing using the VEP statistics found here. Why do they do this?

这么认真，必须赞一个。其实，谁如果真把法轮功媒体报道的当回事，要么是没经验，要么是没理性。

首先说，皮教授用数据说话的态度值得赞赏。这才叫文明！

不过有个问题需要切磋一下，关于投票率的。英文原文叫【Turnout】，定义为投票人数与合格选民【Eligible Voters】总数之比。而合格选民的定义在美国绝大多数州是指经过登记认证【Registered】的选民。那么，你自己定义的投票率就是错误的。

如果采用的定义不同，你必须保证在相同的条件下比较，也就是你引用的之前比较也是采用你的方法。否则这个比较就没意义。在没有确认比较方法相同的情况下，这就是你此文的一个主要瑕疵。

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你说俺相信俺看到的数据还是相信别人有目的的一番话？朱利安尼长得令人厌恶。一副讼棍样。

朱利安尼在11月19日记者吹风会上说：

【威斯康星是很特别的州，该州的法律非常严。首先威斯康星州是不允许邮寄投票的，即使是缺席投票也要个人递交一个申请表，被批准了才能给你这份缺席票，你再去填选票，然后把它交进去。

但是在威斯康星州出现了大量的未经申请的缺席投票。两个民主党主政的大城市，一个是密尔沃基，另一个是麦迪逊。密尔沃基有6万份没有经过申请而投进来的缺席投票，麦迪逊有4万份没有经过申请的缺席投票。所以按照威斯康星州的法律，这10万票都是废票，但是她们都被计算进去了。在整个威斯康星州，就这两个城市出现这种奇怪的现象。

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