Why NO one should MAIL their ballot in!

[sundansx]

Same thing in OR.

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Remember that for next time.

 

[Sxsnuf]

Agreed. The mail carrier sees your mail every day so he or she knows if you are a conservative or a liberal if you get literature that gives it away. I'd be OK with the USPS delivering blank ballots to voters mailboxes, but your filled-out ballot should never be in the hands of one individual - it should always have representatives of both parties watching it. Mail-in voting should be prohibited in all states based on the above security requirement, and based on a USPS union, the National Association of Letter Carriers, supporting the party of gun control - they endorsed Obama, Biden, and Harris. The only filled-out ballots they should be allowed to deliver to the elections office should be from people who have no other way to get their ballot delivered, and there should be very few of those.

THIS^^^^^^^^^^^

I have no doubt that some of my local postal workers might strategically misplace conservative literature at ANY time. In the runup to a presidential election??, I place absolutely no trust in their objectivity.

 

[Sxsnuf]

Here is something to think about when it comes to mail-in voting: Many elderly voters have a very hard time getting to the polls, especially if they can't drive. Mail in voting takes a lot of the difficulty out of voting for that group. Who do you think they are going to vote for? I am guessing the majority are going to scoff at the Democrats hand-out mentality and vote Republican.

Due to the out of town travel required by my work, I used an absentee ballot for years. That system is well tailored to the many elderly voters you referenced.

 

[Alexx1401]

THIS^^^^^^^^^^^

I have no doubt that some of my local postal workers might strategically misplace conservative literature at ANY time. In the runup to a presidential election??, I place absolutely no trust in their objectivity.

THAT is VERY possible. After the evil orange man won the first time I bought a couple of those self inking stamps. One was for money, said Donald Trump Lives Here, with arrow pointed at White House. I used to LOVE paying for stuff with them and seeing the seething near breakdowns it would now and then cause. I would pretend I did not even notice. I am sure a LOT of people wanted to burn the 20's. Another was a large TRUMP. At that time I was still getting DVD's from NetFlix. I was stamping mail I would send out. Suddenly a lot of those DVD's would vanish and never make it back to them. If I did not stamp them they went right back. So I was soon taking any junk mail with a postage paid envelope putting the junk back in that and stamping that. Just to set a lot of hair on fire at post office

 

[Dungannon]

40 years ago I had a job that required traveling 15-25 weeks a year. Signed up for an absentee ballot and have used mail-in voting ever since. I hate standing in line for any reason.

 

[whiskeybill]

The last few years in Washington (especially post Covid) the mail was just one big train wreck. I lived 5 miles east of Battle Ground in a "rural" area, and we could have 5 different drivers delivering mail in any given week. One week a postman showed up and he had driven down from the Olympia post office to help deliver our mail.
One evening after dark I noticed a flashing light bar in my driveway. It was a tow truck, and a mail truck had broken down in the driveway. It had been there a spell as the driver was gone, someone had brought out another truck and they moved all the mail to that truck. The tow truck driver told me this had been the sixth post office delivery truck he had to go get that day.
I had sold an item to an old friend in Billings, MT a couple years ago, and he was going to mail a check. It took 15 days for that check to arrive at my house. It's only 950 miles to Billings from Vancouver. The Pony Express was faster than that.
Given that the USPS is rife with ill trained and incompetent employees, (or they can't hire people) and the delivery vehicles are all aged and breaking down, it's a no-brainer that you shouldn't entrust this organization with anything of importance or value.
Incidentally, here in Montana the law is, your ballot must be received by election day. No "postmark forgiveness". If it arrives after election day, it's not counted. The exception is military absentee ballots. It behooves one to be timely in the submission of ballots.

 

[po18guy]

Went into the local post office and they had a picture of the back of Biden's head(?)

 

[whiskeybill]

Went into the local post office and they had a picture of the back of Biden's head(?)

I thought they did away with the "10 most wanted" list years ago. Maybe a new stamp??

 

[PiratePast40]

I dont support mail in voting but technically as long as the postmark is stamped in time it will get counted if it arrives late to the election place.
Thats how its supposed to work anyways...

There are no postmarks or time stamps on pre-paid mail.

 

[Certaindeaf]

I circumvented all this folderol and similar to the Indians using smoke signals, I communicate with stacked traffic barrels.

 

[po18guy]

I thought they did away with the "10 most wanted" list years ago. Maybe a new stamp??

10 LEAST wanted?