Star Member Edwcraig (72 posts)
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USPS Union Have Carriers Deliver Ballots Directly to Election Delivery Addresses
Why do these ballots, that are clearly marked need to go to the local post office to be sorted.
Establish a temporary post office at the Election absentee ballot office and have carriers take these ballots directly there at the end of every shift.
Should be less than 5 miles on average from the end of a postal delivery route. What am I missing here?
Star Member Me. (29,525 posts)
1. So Who Does The Arresting Of De Joy Now and the traitor after?
Star Member SheltieLover (6,502 posts)
2. They must be postmarked
And since the local post offices no longer do that (all the mail goes to distribution centers and all the post marking is done automatic by sorting machines, exactly how is that going to work?
Let's say your small town post office collects a ballot from each person in town- say 3000 people. The distro center from my little one is 270 miles distant. They pick up the mail at noon and drive it to the center. It goes through the sorter and then onto trucks to be shipped all over the country/world.
They don't 'post mark' anything. Did you want one person to hand stamp 3000 ballots and deliver them to the local polling place (in my cass, City Hall)? And then what?
The mail in ballots would be coming in for weeks.
Just as the absentee ballots do- but they are sent out via the post office to a central election counting poll... which is why most of them never even get counted. The election is over by then- no votes not counted have enough numbers to change the election.
This process would take a month if it all works smoothly--- which it wouldn't.
Star Member bottomofthehill (1,968 posts)
3. They have to be sorted out from all of the other mail that is with the
Star Member Edwcraig (72 posts)
5. Let the carriers do it. Like the old days.
My town used to have five full time carriers. Now there is one part time carrier, a post master and a clerk (plus the five part time rural carriers... but even if they had time, they don't have the equipment anymore- it's been gone for 25+ years.
Star Member bottomofthehill (1,968 posts)
7. They still need to go to the post office
They can not safely sort it on the side of the road. The auto sorters were put in for speed and accuracy.
Letters come pre-sorted into delivery routes from teh distro centers. Flats (magazines, news papers, small parcels, ads, including ballots, come mass delivered to the local post offices for hand sorting before delivery. Now... I suppose you would get 3000 non-addressed ballots... and sort them for each stop on a route. Time consuming and not very secure, for damned sure. Then, how do you pick them up? From each box? Again, very nonsecure. People dropping them off? same thing, and what about old people, sick people, etc etc etc...
it's a huge task.
Star Member Edwcraig (72 posts)
4. Establish temporary post offices at election address.
Only function is to verify and post mark.
Yeah... that's not how the government works.
Star Member SheltieLover (6,502 posts)
6. great idea
and would work in some Dem areas, but would never fly in TN -- no ballot drop off allowed.
Not that TN is a swing state. LOL
Star Member Edwcraig (72 posts)
8. Not a drop off. Postal delivery
went over that. But that's only half the battle. How are you going to secure them coming back to where ever they have to go?
