Posted on 10/30/2020 9:11:34 AM PDT by doug from upland
How do the rank and file feel? The “union” may endorse but what about the members? My neighbor is in the IFFA and I believe they have endorsed byeDUHn but lots of the operators are like, uh, NO!
that actually requires a prison term for postal tampering.
How will they know who the ballot is for?
Rank and file does not matter. What matters is the union’s ability to determine how many votes are needed in what area and then put the right date on the envelopes. A handful of people could create ballots in the right states to turn the election. And, as we have seen, matching signatures do not matter.
If they win, who will prosecute? Who would even investigate?
Steaming open the envelope? Or, I am sure they can find the list of those who have not voted and vote for them. Postal carriers know if someone has died at a residence. That unused ballot can now be used.
Blackelk (R.I.P.) had a postmark issue, but rather than back date the envelope, he had the clerk (who he knew) smudge it so it was illegible. That was decades ago, and the technology is different now.
Rank and file does not matter. What matters is the union’s ability to determine how many votes are needed in what area and then put the right date on the envelopes. A handful of people could create ballots in the right states to turn the election. And, as we have seen, matching signatures do not matter.
If the election is close, that can happen, but if it is 20K or 100K in Trump’s favor, that is a ton of ballots to make up
This “could” happen.
Maybe on a very limited scale.
I might get struck by lightning tonite too.
Conspiracy theory. Unless they have a way of seeing who was selected on the ballot, they do not know if the voter was D or R.
No matter how late into the evening and into the early morning of April 16th you waited in line, the Post Office would accept your return and postmark it "April 15."
So yes, it can be done.
That section, although it sounds disturbing, relates to Special Event or Pictorial Postmarks...
At least 10 weeks before the date of the event, sponsors or organizers of events who wish to use a pictorial postmark must submit a letter of request to the postmaster of the city where the postmark is to be used. Requests submitted less than 10 weeks before the date of the event are subject to rejection.
https://about.usps.com/handbooks/po230/po230c4_001.htm
Not that it would be impossible to change the date stamp on a postal machine, but it would be a multi-person effort.
We need to look for ballots postmarked on the Nov. 8 with the 8 smeared to look like a 3
They will do this for the ballots they paid people to fill out before hand somewhere in a warehouse.
Why do you think the big push for extending days after the Nov 3rd date?
Or, and this is double-plus conspiracy theory, a DNC Operative can hand a crate full of ballots to a Postal Worker insider any time AFTER the election.
The insider(s) back-postmark the ballots to election day, and deliver them before the "receive by" deadline of the particular state in question.
Good thread thank you.
“10 Backdating and Pre–Dating
It is the policy of the Postal Service to prohibit backdating and pre–dating of mail except in the following cases:
(a) When postal operating requirements and public demand necessitate that postmarking commence before and/or continue after the date contained in the postmark. However, under no circumstances may any postmarked material be released before the date of the postmark.
(b) When replacements are made for damaged, defective, or missing postmarks or covers.
(c) When all requirements for postmarks are met by a customer but postmarks are not applied because of errors by Postal Service personnel.
(d) When authorization is specifically provided in writing by a Stamp Services manager.”
There will be neighborhoods which lean heavily one way or another, and the postal workers will know which they are.
If they "misplace" a bunch of ballots from a heavily Republican area, they can be sure they have mostly shited the vote total in favor of the Democrats. Likewise if they back-postmark ballots from heavily Democrat neighborhoods, or give delivery/sorting preference to one neighborhood over another.
Any company that runs there own mailroom, has the capability to do this with there metering machine as well. (Unless safeguards on newer equipment have been put in place?)
Don’t business office have this option, too? Don’t they have their own stamping machines?
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