Trusting Post Office with Ballots is not warranted

[kindy64]

This is the performance you should expect of the U.S. Post Office...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/us/po...virus.html

Three tubs of absentee ballots that never reached voters were discovered in a postal center outside Milwaukee. At least 9,000 absentee ballots requested by voters were never sent, and others recorded as sent were never received. Even when voters did return their completed ballots in the mail, thousands were postmarked too late to count — or not at all.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/202...18-report/

In the 2018 elections, 42.4 million ballots were mailed to voters in states that allow, or in some cases require, mail-in voting. Of those, more than a quarter failed, according to the Public Interest Legal Foundation.

Using Election Assistance Commission numbers, the foundation said 1.1 million of those ballots were deemed undeliverable to the addresses where they were sent. More than 430,000 others were rejected by elections officials, and more than 10 million — about a quarter of those sent — were “unaccounted for,” according to the data.

https://www.9news.com/article/news/local...-607792277

The 61,000 voters in Adams County who've been waiting on ballots in the mail are waiting no more: the post office said they've been delivered. Though it’s still unclear who should be held accountable for them going missing in the first place.

State and local election officials traded blame with the United States Postal Service on Wednesday as they investigated how an entire truckload of ballots went unaccounted for between Oct. 15 and Oct. 22.

Fifteen XPO Shipping trucks, all carrying ballots printed by K&H Printing near Seattle, arrived at the USPS general mailing facility in Commerce City on Oct. 15. The ballots were set to be delivered to four counties in Colorado, with four full trucks worth of ballots designated for Adams County.
USPS staff accepted the parcels from all but one truck. USPS Colorado spokesperson David Rupert told 9NEWS that the driver lacked sufficient payment documentation that USPS needs to accept the delivery, adding the facility needs to keep track of thousands of pieces of mail per day.

https://newjerseyglobe.com/campaigns/pos...on-office/

There are reports that the U.S. Post Office has returned dozens of vote-by-mail ballots cast for the July 7 primary election back to voters, instead of delivering them to the county Board of Elections.

In these cases, voters who have completed their VBM ballot and returned them are finding their own ballots coming back to their homes, according to local election officials.

Postmarked ballots addressed to the county election office are instead being delivered by the post office to the return address of the voter.

The postal service acknowledged the mistakes.

“We are aware that some ballots were inadvertently returned to voters. We have no evidence that these pieces of mail were processed incorrectly. We regret any concern caused by their delay,” said Maureen P. Marion a spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service.  “We have continued to process and deliver ballots to voters as they are provided by, or on behalf of, Boards of Elections and are not aware of any widespread delays in advance of the July 7th elections.”

This is the latest in a series of postal mishaps involving an election that is being run entirely through mail-in ballots.

In response to the coronavirus pandemic New Jersey switched to all-VBM elections in 33 municipalities across ten counties on May 12, involving about 730,000 voters.

Thousands of ballots were delivered after the May 14 cutoff – hundreds of them postmarked on or before May 12 and hundreds more without any postmark at all, making it impossible for election officials to accept the ballots.

[InbetweenDreams]

So, it makes sense that Trump is defunds and sabotages the US Postal Service? Not saying the Postal Service doesn't have problems, honestly I rarely ever have problems with mail...oh until last week when I thought my contacts were missing then catching up on the news I learned why they took 2 weeks to show up instead of 3-4 days.

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In addition to that, just regular voting machines have their share of issues...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...es/575044/

In South Carolina, machines were changing votes—a “calibration issue,” an election official told The State.
“In Georgia,” The Washington Post reported, “voters waited more than four hours to vote at an elementary school in suburban Atlanta, where some voting machines were not working at the start of the day.” (Problems were reported elsewhere in the state, too.)
The Detroit Free Press reported:
Michigan voters are being turned away from the polls, or left waiting in seemingly interminable lines, in various metro Detroit locations so far on Election Day.

Rex Nagy, a voter in Redford Township, said that his polling place at Pierce Middle School was relying on just one voting machine that he was told had not been tested before Tuesday morning. Everything was at a standstill while around 100 people waited for it to get fixed. From 7:50 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., Nagy saw about half the line leave to go to work, he said. Although Redford Township said the issue was resolved in around a half-hour, Nagy noted the line was still backed up.

According to USA Today, malfunctioning voting machines caused long lines at several precincts in Indiana.
Technical glitches were among the factors causing hours-long lines in Maricopa Country, Arizona.
In Hamilton County, Ohio, “voting machines unexpectedly rejected ballots that had not been completely filled out” in “Blue Ash, Colerain Township, Hyde Park, Walnut Hills, downtown Cincinnati, Monfort Heights and other locations,” according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. And the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that “a computer glitch at Geauga County polling places caused the system to mark some Election Day voters as having already voted by absentee ballot.”
“Across New York City,” the AP noted, “reports of broken ballot scanners surfaced at several polling places. Turnout was so heavy at one packed precinct on Manhattan’s Upper West Side that the line to scan ballots stretched around a junior high school gym. Poll workers there told voters that two of the roughly half-dozen scanners were malfunctioning.”
According to Politico, “Glitchy paperless voting machines are affecting an untold number of early voting ballots in Texas and Georgia, raising the specter that two of the most closely watched races could be marred by questions about whether the vote count is accurate.”

So, the post office having problems sounds like a moot point if you ask me. The narrative that Trump and the right suggest is that there is fraud, all those examples demonstrate that the USPS is understaffed, needs investment and updating, much like our voting machines. So you vote could get lost and not counted no matter whether you mail a ballot or show up in person. All we have proved here is that our voting systems are antiquated at best.