Facing a $250,000 fine and up to 5 years in Jail.
The ballots have since been delivered along with the rest of the mail found.
Lets hope there's not more that was missed or anything.....
If I learned anything from having a dad who worked for the post officer, it's that interfering with the mail is no fucking joke(in fact, it's a felony) and that the USPS takes that shit seriously. In fact, they have their own federal investigation service just for chasing this shit down.
Not sure what he thought he was accomplishing but he's very likely going to serve prison time for it.
A postal worker should know that better then most people.
What does that card say in Monopoly? "Go to Jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200"? Something like that I thinkDude should be hit with the book hard. It's really not the time to play it fast and loose.
Aren't ours all transported by employees of the Electoral Commission?We put our ballots in a box, which gets transported by god knows who and we assume they will be counted and that’s deserves no scrutiny
We put our ballot in a box, which gets transported by the USPS, who are well know for not tampering with packages and it’s apparently fraud
Should be. I would actually suggest that it’s contractors working for the AEC since it’s temp work.Aren't ours all transported by employees of the Electoral Commission?
After a preliminary count at the polling place, with party scrutineers breathing down polling officers' necks. Any major discrepancy would be obvious.Aren't ours all transported by employees of the Electoral Commission?
We switched to secret ballots at the end of the 19th century for good reasons. Mail in voting innately has every issue that we adopted secret ballots to avoid, at a minimum.There's absolutely zero evidence that mail-in voting is more prone to issues than in-person voting.
I get the feeling you have some fundamental misunderstandings of how mail-in voting works.We switched to secret ballots at the end of the 19th century for good reasons. Mail in voting innately has every issue that we adopted secret ballots to avoid, at a minimum.
Such as? Pretty sure the idea is that you receive a ballot in the mail, fill it out on your own time, then return it in a special envelope via the mail.I get the feeling you have some fundamental misunderstandings of how mail-in voting works.
The thing wrong with the GOP church etc ballot boxes is that they were then left unmanned. But its not much worse than the Dems throwing parties and giving the ballots to 'trusted individuals'Such as? Pretty sure the idea is that you receive a ballot in the mail, fill it out on your own time, then return it in a special envelope via the mail.
That second step is where all the things that led to us adopting the secret ballot to begin with can creep back in.
And then there are places like CA where most recent voting shenanigans have involved the legalization of ballot harvesting, ranging from the Dems flipping a traditionally GOP district by going door to door saying they were collecting ballots as "a special service only offered to Democrats" to recently the GOP setting up additional private ballot boxes (which is apparently a not permitted way of engaging in ballot harvesting while door to door is fine). Many places explicitly ban ballot harvesting because it puts another person with explicit political motives into the process but California legalized it just a few years ago.
And now going door to door to collect seems necessary since the postal service, which a lot of disabled and elderly relied upon to vote, is being screwed by the republicans.Such as? Pretty sure the idea is that you receive a ballot in the mail, fill it out on your own time, then return it in a special envelope via the mail.
That second step is where all the things that led to us adopting the secret ballot to begin with can creep back in.
And then there are places like CA where most recent voting shenanigans have involved the legalization of ballot harvesting, ranging from the Dems flipping a traditionally GOP district by going door to door saying they were collecting ballots as "a special service only offered to Democrats" to recently the GOP setting up additional private ballot boxes (which is apparently a not permitted way of engaging in ballot harvesting while door to door is fine). Many places explicitly ban ballot harvesting because it puts another person with explicit political motives into the process but California legalized it just a few years ago.