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    In the Mail
    In the Mail
    In the Mail
    Ebook33 pages23 minutes

    In the Mail

    By Ernest Bywater

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    What can happen with universal postal voting systems, especially when implemented at short notice. Like many ideas, how it goes depends more on how it's implemented than the idea itself. 6,000 words.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherErnest Bywater
    Release dateOct 16, 2020
    ISBN9781393413912
    In the Mail
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    Ernest Bywater

    Ernest Bywater was born and bred in Sydney, Australia in the mid 1950s. He was the youngest of three children born to a local truck driver and a mother with a rare eye condition. She went totally blind before he started school. Thus he grew up in an environment where nothing was left near a table edge, and he spent a lot of time in an adult world as his mother's eyes while still a child. After leaving school at 16 he's worked at everything from door-to-door sales to middle management while also earning many qualification through studies in his own time. At work he wrote many millions of words in reports, technical documents, and training documents. Since his retirement due to health issues he's written over 3 million words of fiction stories in over 100 stories as novels, novellas, and short stories.

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      In the Mail - Ernest Bywater

      Ernest Bywater

      All rights reserved and copyrighted © 2020

      This is a work of fiction. All of the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental. All rights are reserved by the author, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

      Product names, brands, and other trademarks referred to within this book are the property of their respective trademark holders. Unless otherwise specified there is no association between the author and any trademark holder, nor are any expressed or implied. Nor does it express any endorsement by them, or of them. Use of a term in this book should not be regarded as affecting the validity of any trademark, service mark, or registered trademark.

      Cover Art

      The background image is Mailbox_(254471467) by Marcus Quigmire of Florida, USA on 30 April 2008 and copyrighted by him. The use is allowed by the Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike Licence and terms. The cropping, size adjustment, and text are by Ernest Bywater. All rights to the cover images are reserved by the copyright owners.

      28 January 2021 version

      Published by Ernest Bywater

      E-book ISBN: 978-1-71650-896-7

      Note: US English is used in this story

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      The title styles in use are a chapter, a sub-chapter, and a section.

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      Author's Note

      When I first wrote this short story in early October 2020 I was under the assumption that the majority of people understood the basics of the electoral systems in most modern democracies, especially those on voter registers and postal votes. After posting the story I received a host of emails and comments showing me that was a totally false assumption.

      That has prompted me to expand the story to cover those areas to make things a lot clearer to readers. I originally had certain facts about postal voting at the end of the story, which I'm now placing at the start of

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