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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUSPS data shows thousands of mailed ballots missed Election Day deadlines
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/11/03/election-ballot-delays-usps/USPS data shows thousands of mailed ballots missed Election Day deadlines
By Jacob Bogage and Christopher Ingraham November 4, 2020 at 12:19 p.m. EST
Nearly 7 percent of ballots in U.S. Postal Service sorting facilities on Tuesday were not processed on time for submission to election officials, according to data the agency filed Wednesday in federal court, potentially leaving tens of thousands of ballots caught in the mail system during an especially tight presidential race.
Earlier Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of the District of Columbia had ordered the Postal Service to sweep 12 postal processing facilities that cover 15 states for ballots. But the agency rebuffed that order and said it would stick to its own inspection schedule, which voting rights advocates worried was too late in the day for found ballots to make it to vote counters.
The directive came after the Postal Service disclosed that more than 300,000 ballots nationwide could not be traced. Those ballots received entry bar code scans at processing facilities, but not exit scans. The agency said the likelihood of that many ballots being misplaced was very low; mail clerks had been ordered to sort ballots by hand in many locations, and items that were pulled out for expedited delivery were not given an exit scan.
At this point, said Zieve, we dont have any way of knowing if those ballots are of concern or if they arent.
THIS was neanderthal's plan all a long: Spread covid, tell his voters not to trust the mail, and then steal votes in mailrooms.
He did it right in front of us. THIS is why PA decided to allow late arriving votes, and it might just save us all.
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USPS data shows thousands of mailed ballots missed Election Day deadlines (Original Post)
lindysalsagal
Nov 2020
OP
tRump will probably give his DeJoystick a lame duck presidential medal of freedom
Blue Owl
Nov 2020
#2
R B Garr
(16,975 posts)1. I just heard on local news that California is allowing
a 17-day* extension on ballot receipt because of mail delays. Beat these creeps at their own games.
*i heard 17 days, maybe it was 14...? Anyway, a time extension.
Corrections: darn phone typing
misanthrope
(7,428 posts)3. Thanks to the EC, that doesn't really matter
Biden already has California's electoral votes.
Tanuki
(14,920 posts)4. It might matter in some of the down-ballot races, though.
R B Garr
(16,975 posts)5. True, California is always in the bag. But it's
good principle and newsworthy. A good example, and someone brought up the down ballot,
Blue Owl
(50,494 posts)2. tRump will probably give his DeJoystick a lame duck presidential medal of freedom
Fuck them both