NORTHERN LIBERTIES - There’s a new buzzword going around – naked ballots.Will they be like hanging chads were in 2000?Does anyone know what a naked ballot is?
For people mailing ballots in, they need to know what naked ballots are.City Commissioner Al Schmidt explains it’s a way to separate the identity of the voter from the vote they cast.“Naked ballot is intended to separate the identity of the voter from the vote that they’re casting.
So when a voter returns a mail-in-ballot, that ballot is put inside something called a secrecy envelope and then the secrecy envelope is put inside an outer envelope and that outer envelope is the one the voter would fill out and sign,”If people mail their ballots without following the steps, it’s known as.