This is curious to me, as a direct mail wiz....Anytime we do a mailing, whether at 1st Class or Standard Mail rates, we must put the mailing list through the NCOA database, which updates address moves going back to 48 months. Many records are rejected outright as no longer being at a given address, deceased or having given no forwarding information to the USPS.
100,000 Nixies? I know government is the last refuge of the incompetent, but this takes that to an insane level.
Sounds like something Reagan would have said.
That’s JUST the number returned by carriers. A sub on a route who doesn’t recognize the name as having passed away three years ago and the customer just tosses it into the trash (or decides, hey, free vote, I’ll send this back with mine...)
I’d say conservatively, you could double or triple the number of ballots sent out to people who don’t live there anymore, which is close to half of the ballots sent out.
But hey, let’s run a presidential election like that.
Interesting but not surprising.
How can anything so simple be so rife with fraud?