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“””They are postage prepaid, and you can hand write the date in yourself according to the rules. No postmark needed.”””

You make a good point that needs to be highlighted. Here is what copilot says when asked this question: “Does USPS Date Stamp a Postage-Paid Envelope?”

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USPS does not automatically date stamp a postage-paid envelope just because it has prepaid postage. Whether a date appears depends on the type of postage used and how the mail is processed.

Standard prepaid postage (precanceled stamps, meters, permit imprints)

USPS will not apply a postmark with a date to mail that uses precanceled stamps, metered postage, or permit imprints sjgov.org.

These methods are designed to prevent reuse of postage, so USPS does not cancel or date-stamp them.

The “Postage Paid” marking on the envelope only shows that the sender has prepaid; it does not indicate a USPS-issued date PostGrid.

When USPS applies a date

USPS will date stamp mail that uses standard postage stamps purchased from a retail counter, if the mail is processed at a facility that applies postmarks sjgov.org.

The date on the postmark reflects when the mail was first accepted into USPS custody, not necessarily when it was dropped off Current Federal Tax Developments.

To ensure the date matches the mailing date, you can request a manual (local) postmark at a retail counter or use a Postage Validation Imprint (PVI) when paying at the counter Current Federal Tax Developments.
Key takeaway
If your postage-paid envelope uses precanceled stamps, meters, or permit imprints, it will not have a USPS date stamp. If it uses standard retail stamps and is processed with postmarks, you may see a date, but it may not match the day you mailed it unless you request a manual postmark or PVI Current Federal Tax Developments+1.

It’s in the California legal code - you as a voter can hand write the date. So even if the post office doesn’t postmark it (which they usually don’t) your hand-written date supersedes. Nor do they check the signature of the witness on the ballots if the voter doesn’t sign the envelope.

Now get this - there are scores and scores of homeless outreach places. Women’s shelters. Immigration outreach. And more. Very few of these places actually have beds for overnight stay but they do offer meals, computer access, showers, laundry and some minor medical services and “self help” like voter registration and Medi-Cal (medicaid) registration. They recruit the homeless to register to vote using these addresses. So these locations get ballots sent in bulk. One place, I heard, received over 1000 ballots. Another 140 something. This adds up. The ballots very likely never reach the named person. So someone gets to literally “harvest” tens of thousands of ballots very easily. And do you think they’re gonna vote for the people who want to cut the reckless waste funneled through these sites?

California refuses to cooperate with Trump in providing the voter rolls. Gee I wonder why. The entire set of laws pertaining to voting from Moter Voter registration to harvesting to dead people to anonymous names using an address that is not their residence is all legislated to enable fraud to ensure a political outcome. This is why the state is so heavily Democratic. It’s not just because of registrations, it is because there are untold and unknowable tens or hundreds of thousands of ballots going into the hands of NGOs that are paid by the state. Of course they are going to vote for their interests. In massive numbers. Whether it is one person filling out 100s or 1000s of votes, or whether they go out and pay homeless $2 per signature. There is video of one guy saying “I’m Theresa” as he signs a petition. That is probably more widescale than a single video presents.

Same basic scam as the ActBlue money laundering/campaign violations. Take $1 million and slice it up using 20,000 names at $50 a person to deliberately break the law but hiding it. In this case, it’s just ballots instead of dollars.