Posted on 08/14/2020 3:04:26 PM PDT by karpov
By now you've probably heard that President Donald Trump and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy "are sabotaging democracy in plain sight" through a mix of nefarious ploys, ranging from removing "blue Post Office drop boxes" to scrapping mail-sorting machines to allegedly mandating a slowdown in delivering the mail. The upshot of the chatter is that Trump, fearful of losing the election in November, is supposedly doing everything possible to block what is expected to be a historically high level of mail-in ballots. (Meanwhile, the president has been stoking his own conspiracy theories by preemptively declaring the upcoming vote "the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history.")
The truth is far less incendiary, though still troubling. As USA Today concluded in a fact-check of various rumors floating around,
it is false to say mail is intentionally being slowed, despite reports that a new USPS [United States Postal Service] system might inherently cause delays. The Trump administration said the president did not direct USPS to slow down its deliveries, and USA TODAY found no evidence of that claim being true either.
In any case, as NPR and other outlets have reported, the president has said he'd sign a bill including more funding for the Postal Service, including aid dedicated to processing any surge in mail-in votes.
Here's a little bit of math that should give voters succor. In 2016, about 140 million total votes were cast in the presidential election, according to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, with "nearly 24 percent…cast using by-mail absentee voting." Due to Covid-19 concerns, the percentage of mail-in and absentee ballots will almost surely be higher this time around—possibly as high as 70 percent of all votes cast. Assume, for the sake of argument, that the same number of votes will be cast this year as in 2016.
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If the Iraqis can vote while under fire I think we can vote in person.
I find it amusing that the RATs who were busted throwing away absentee ballots from APO zip codes for Algore’s benefit are worried about voter fraud through the mails.
If you had a lottery ticket worth millions, would you send it through the mail to cash it in? Hell no. You would take it in person, to collect on it.
B. Hussein Obama, the foreign born punk ass mofo who changed the democratic party into the Revolutionary communist party, is now claiming Trump is trying to discourage voting by “kneecapping the post office”. Excuse me Hussein, but what the F does the damn post office have to do with Presidential elections?
Our PA governor reduced the polling places in my boro from 17 to one because of corona virus, for the primary. I voted by absentee ballot, early, and I had no problem with it. You get email when your vote is received and recorded. I have already requested an absentee ballot for November. It’s not too early.
The postal service supervisors will make sure that your vote is deep 6’d
I am furious. If they can't handle this, an order from a big well-known company which ships tens of thousands of live crickets weekly, how will they handle the very important ballots?
It's the VOTE. It's the method we Americans use to choose our leaders. It's the bedrock of our Republic, and I jealously guard it.
It makes us all equal - one man (or woman), one vote. If my vote gets lost, or stolen, or diluted by fraud, I become less than a citizen, more of a subject.
The power of the vote controls who is elected and what laws are passed. If my vote doesn't count, I control none of that.
You can't treat it like ordinary "mail". If you get two (duplicate) electric bills or don't get your phone bill, no big deal - you can call and straighten it out. You can't change your vote on Nov. 5th.
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Just yesterday he also said he would not sign such a bill, for that exact reason.
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All I’m hearing is about mail boxes being removed and high volume mail sorting machines being taken out.
I didn’t see that anywhere, do you have a link, please?
If you won $1 million in the lottery, would you mail in your ticket or go in person?
I have a hard time taking this article seriously when the Postmaster General is warning that they will have difficulty handling the extra volume.
He actually seems to say that the mail-in voting funding for USPS is one sticking point in the bill negotiations and it's very interesting that if he doesn't sign it, there won't be any money for mail-in voting. But he doesn't say that he's definitely not going to sign.
Thank you
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