Yes, you keep trusting the USPS for your delicates, see what happens.
There was a meme floating around about how the Postal Service does not advise sending cash by mail and AFP did a “fact check” on the meme and sort of tagging it as as false, but there is something interesting in the Fact Check.
AFP does the usual job of trying to dismiss the fears of Mail-In Voting even including the President, but the quote from an USPS spokesman makes me wonder how was the question asked.
David Partenheimer, a spokesman for USPS, told AFP by email: “Regarding sending cash in the mail, no, we do not prohibit it and continue to advise customers about the options they have.” (Bold are mine)
The meme did not say prohibit but advise. I have the strange feeling that our friends at AFP kinda/sorta may have fibbed just a tad to make politics via their “fact check.” But just a little.
And next comes something that we can do with mailed cash that we should not have to do with Mail In Ballots.
Partenheimer also said that cash sent through the mail can be insured for up to $15, or up to $50,000 for Registered Mail.
Can we send out Mail In votes registered and insured up to $50,000? Wouldn’t that be a modern equivalent of a poll tax? If you create a deficient system that will not guarantee a Constitutional right unless you pay a fee, that would be a violation of Civil rights, but as usual, IANAL.
Anyway, I am voting in effing person this year, I am having serious trust issues anyway. What the hell, I am just ranting over here.
With respect to “fact finders” always read the story, don’t trust the headline.
One came up in my Facebook feed, a friend posted the meme of the news talking about Biden’s rally while showing a Trump rally, The fact-finder said, “The news organization absolutely did not use a photo of a Trump rally to illustrate a story on a Biden rally.” Pretty definite. Then the story goes on to explain they used a video of the Trump rally, not a still picture.
Yeah, a registered letter to the Lottery Commission won’t raise any alarms. I’m sure some postal employee got a nice payday out of that. Just like no postal union member would ever quietly reroute (to the trash) an obvious ballot from a heavily Republican neighborhood. We can definitely trust the USPS to make sure every vote counts. /snark
Hell, USPS delivered a freaking empty box to High Noon Holsters that had contained, once I had handed it over to the clerk, a holster being sent in for usage repairs.
No explanation.
BTW, I daily wear one of their IWB holsters. Have gone back for more, at full retail, with each new handgun acquisition.
Each, arrives via UPS, NOT USPS.
But, yeah, trust da mail. Totally, dude, like, totally!
Apart from the mail, there are other issues.
A few days ago there was a report about NYC authorities sending out ballots to various voters in Brooklyn. The ballot comes preprinted with name and address of the voter, but… in a fair number of cases, voters received ballots for someone else, in the examples shown someone down the street.
It may well be an idiot contractor grabbing a box of ballots and a box of envelopes without understanding that the ballot has to match the envelope. But then again, it IS NYC.
My city has had mail in voting for two or three municipal elections. Curiously, I have yet to have a candidate I vote for win. Weird…
Point though. If you want to mail back the ballot, it requires you to put two stamps on it. Not one, but two. And, you do not know that from the envelope. You have to read the small print to find that out. Wonder how many people assumed it was one first class stamp, and the ballot never got delivered?
Final note. Isn’t requiring a voter to provide their own stamp a poll tax? I would say it is. Yes, I can deliver the ballot to a drop box. But, if the minorities should not be required to go to a DMV office to get a free photo ID for voting, I should not be required to take time out of my day (and the fuel in my car) to vote.
Oregon has had 100% absentee voting for over two decades. ALL ballots are mail-in ballots.
I take ours to an elections drop box, for three main reasons:
First, there are a bunch of drop boxes, so I can find one closer to our house or my work than the post offices.
Second, I don’t have to pay postage or provide a return address (which makes it harder for potential fraud-ers to skim off conservative districts’ ballots by looking at addresses, especially if I drop off in a blue neighborhood).
Third, and most important, it’s picked up by elections staff and USPS never touches it. There’s no delivery time; when elections workers pick them up at 8 pm, it’s “in”. Our election rules here clearly say the ballot has to be received by 8 pm Election Day to be counted — postmarked before then doesn’t cut it — and I strongly suspect that a bunch of ballot shipments from mostly-conservative districts will be “temporarily delayed” and not arrive at elections offices until after the deadline despite being postmarked days earlier.
Yet another issue with mail-in ballots that’s getting a bit more attention now: each state has regulations on deadlines and processing.
But leftists (mostly) are finding random activist judges to make random changes to the law, on the flimsiest of grounds and without any pattern to their decisions. Some have moved a deadline by 3 days, some by 6, some by weeks. None of these cases are authorized by the Constitution, and none of the decisions have any merit whatsoever.
The Constitution says in plain English “Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors…”. The US Congress has a very limited power, namely to set the time of that appointment (i.e., the presidential election) and when the Electors meet. That’s it. Nothing in the Constitution grants any judge any power over any of this. But of course, many judges don’t care at all about the Constitution, no more than most politicians.