Hoo boy, just got 8 California ballots in the mail. Not great.

[Sympthsical]

Two of them are legitimately ours.

Two are right house number, wrong street.

Two are right street, wrong house number.

Two are people who don't (no longer?) live here.

The four in my neighborhood I'll be walking over in the morning. Our two will get mailed when I do that.

Still. Eesh, USPS. Good thing it doesn't matter, eh?

[marble falls]

1. One manifestation, one vote?

[Hekate]

2. Thank deJoy. Overworked, understaffed, badly equipped, badly managed. He & his ilk are...

… deliberately trying to destroy this venerable American institution, one so important it was founded by Ben Franklin and mentioned in the Constitution. It is not designed to turn a profit — it is designed to render a vital service.

before I really start to rant

[Sympthsical]

6. Believe me, it was the first name that entered my mind n/t

[BigmanPigman]

23. I hate him with a passion.

[aggiesal]

26. All roads except toll roads are designed for USPS ...

When we used to use maps (way before GPS), the matrix that showed distances between cities, was determined by distances between the main post offices at each city.
That's a bit of trivia.

[Hekate]

31. Cool trivia-- but also tells us how important the POs are!

[aggiesal]

42. It's basically the only Federal building ...

that's in every municipality.

[Hekate]

45. It won't be any more if deJoy and the people who put him in charge have their way. nt

[blogslug]

3. As long as you vote to keep Newsom in office

You will be doing that won't you?

[Sympthsical]

7. Yep

Going to research question 2 tonight. I don't feel comfortable at all leaving that blank.

[brush]

13. Why give someone else a vote to get Newsom out? Best to vote for Newsom by...

just checking item number 1, which means "No" on the recall of the governor.

[Sympthsical]

14. I believe in having contingencies

If Newsom wins - and I've already filled in NO on the recall, then what I do on question two doesn't matter. But if he loses, and Republicans coalesce enough around Elder, hard pass.

I think it's irresponsible for me to leave it blank.

[moonscape]

32. Not making a choice if the recall

succeeds is what gives the other side one’s vote.

[IcyPeas]

22. Cal Dems recommend leaving question 2 blank....

Rusty Hicks is the Chair of the California Democratic Party.

Link to tweet

?s=19

[moonscape]

33. I don't understand the reasoning behind this at all.

Why leave #2 blank?

[IcyPeas]

37. Here's the names of the other Dems on the ballot...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_California_gubernatorial_recall_election

None of them are even recognizable names and would stand zero chance. I'm going to follow their guidance and put all NY money in one pot.

[moonscape]

38. What I don't get though is that it's

all the money in one pot on question #1. Then, they roll out another pot. Not trying to belabor this, and will dig in tomorrow, but I guess at least there are no marginally palatable dems if the recall succeeds so not to tempt disaffected dems from voting yes.

I still don’t think I can leave it blank. I’ll write in Obama!

[Captain Stern]

39. It doesn't sound like there is any 'reasoning' behind this.

By answering 'no' to question 1, and leaving question two blank, one is essentially saying:

"I don't want Newsom removed, but if he is, I don't care whether his replacement is a Democrat or not."

[moonscape]

43. Exactly. Further "you Republicans just pick

whichever scumbag you want.”

[TheBlackAdder]

4. It's a, it's a, it's a. . .

.





.

[Sympthsical]

10. Oooh, is this all the Democratic fraud I keep hearing about?

My god, the fraud was coming from inside the house!

At least they came to a place where we'll get them to the right people. I imagine an apathetic type tossing them. Or worse.

[ornotna]

5. At 11 at night on a Saturday?

Mail must be really slow there.

[Sympthsical]

8. It's 8pm in California

And I'm lazy and didn't go out to get the mail until a bit ago. Our mail usually hits around 4pm-ish.

[ornotna]

12. Doh!

You mean there's more than one time zone?

[Sympthsical]

15. We all live in the human time zone

And I will now put that on kitchen towels and sell them on Etsy.

[brush]

9. Be sure you file a complaint to the Post Office. Maybe it'll spur them to get off their...

ass and get DeJoy out of there so the PO can get back to efficient, speedy deliveries.

[Sympthsical]

11. I wouldn't want to get my carrier in trouble

I genuinely like her. She's probably got a truck full of the things and they got shuffled around. Like I said, they were close! Two are a few houses down, and two are just another street over.

[brush]

16. That's quite a number of mistakes. She may not be doing the greatest job.

Alerting the PO may spur her to do better. What if the mistake was made on a check for you, or some of the other peoples' mail you got?

[Sympthsical]

18. You have a fair point

If everyone's getting ballots today, they're probably having a complete day of it. I feel for them. They're already getting hosed by DeJoy, and now they have this completely nonsensical ass ache courtesy of Republican shit heels.

[Deuxcents]

19. Maybe over worked

Under appreciated and under paid. Please don’t report for this.. imo..Dejoy wants the p o privatized. A big union and its benefits...hmmm.

[IcyPeas]

24. Sorry, but it's their job to get it right. This is too important.

8 ballots! Come on.

[Hekate]

29. When mail for someone on our street is misdelivered to us, hubby takes it to the right house...

I have to say he gets to know a lot more people than I do!

[Indykatie]

17. Ballots Are Bulky Mail- Sad That The Postal Worker Wouldn't Notice Leaving 8 Ballots at 1 House n/t

[Sympthsical]

20. Not that unusual for us

We're kind of a mini post office ourselves. Since we both largely work from home, friends and family who don't will often have Amazon or anything important sent to us to avoid porch pirates in their neighborhood. It feels like there are always boxes in our foyer waiting to be picked up.

I'd be surprised if the carrier didn't think eight billion people lived here.

[ShazamIam]

21. DeJoy's announced policy is to slow delivery of first class mail. link below.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-postal-service-finalizes-plan-slow-some-mail-deliveries-2021-08-06/#:~:text=WASHINGTON%2C%20Aug%206%20%28Reuters%29%20-%20The%20U.S.%20Postal,to%20one%20to%20five%20days%20for%20first-class%20mail.

[BigmanPigman]

25. I got in the mail today...

I literally kissed it. GOTV is on my mask and when I wore it to my supermarkets today I got a lot of "thumbs up"s.

[RockRaven]

27. That sort of aberrant result makes one wonder about your local USPS people...

Or at minimum their working conditions.

Thankfully my household got a ballot for each voter living here, no more, and no less.

Thank you for fixing what you can fix. It matters. A hell of a lot.

[NullTuples]

28. All we got was the voter's handbook?

"Voter Information Guide and Sample Ballot" it says on the front.

Below that,

"All active registered voters will get a ballot in the mail."

"Ballots will be mailed starting August 16; allow 5-7 days for delivery.

Perhaps it would be good if the OP checks the cover of whatever they received?

[Sympthsical]

40. They're official ballots

They say "Official Mail-In Ballot" on the envelope. Inside is a sample ballot, an official ballot, a voter's information guide, a ballot stub with an I Voted sticker, and the yellow return envelope.

Why they put the sample ballot with the official ballot is beyond me. They look identical except for "sample ballot" written vertically in the margins.

Kind of seems like an accident waiting to happen there for people not paying attention.

[NullTuples]

44. Fascinating - it looks like some counties jumped the gun & othe are keeping it simple & on schedule.

Weird thing is, in the still anecdotal, non-statistically significant sampling I've found so far (ie, 3; two in SoCal & 1 in the Sierras) it appears to be red counties that sent them out early?

Also, thanks for all the info. This is indeed weird.

[Sympthsical]

47. Solano County in North Bay

We're fairly solidly Democratic. 45/21/28 D/R/I. The (D) House representative typically gets ~55%.

But outside of the main three cities, it's pretty rural (I have a vineyard literally 100 ft. from my house). Not a ton of people. So maybe they just processed everything more quickly? Only 240k registered voters here compared to the million each in Contra Costa and Alameda.

[NullTuples]

48. Just over a few hills.

And I'd say Solano is solidly Dem indeed.
Registered Voters as of 08/09/2021 Democrat: 128,483 Republican: 58,451
https://www.solanocounty.com/depts/rov/

[Raine]

30. 2020 Presidential election I got FIVE ballots all with my name on them and

my brother got ZERO ballots, looks like nothing has improved.

[LenaBaby61]

34. Hoo boy, just got 8 California ballots in the mail. Not great.

OMG, a friend in Northern California got 4 ballots, and 2 were for her husband just last week 😳

She's been a widow for over 5 years!!

Only ONE ballot was proper, which was for her. But her husband's name showed up on two of the other ballots and the final ballot had a wrong address on it and her name. It scared her to death, so she called her voter registrar's office, and the woman told her to destroy the 3 unnecessary ballots, throw them away but keep the one for her which was correct, and fill it out and mail as normal. She asked the woman how this happened, and the woman told her that sometimes it happens due to human error, also that more ballots are being mailed out than normal, so that more people can vote from home due to the pandemic. After she talked with the woman, she said she felt better.

Her ballot has been mailed in, AND of course she voted NO on the BOGUS GQP Gavin Newsom recall of course

[CousinIT]

35. F*cking DeJoy. He has destroyed USPS.

And he was installed to do JUST THAT. Vote by mail USED TO BE very reliable. DeJoy was installed to ensure that is no longer true. Speaking of which - WHY IS THAT SONOFABITCH STILL THERE?

[secondwind]

36. Apparently he is there until December.

We can’t do anything before that

[GoCubsGo]

41. They aren't just misdelivering in California.

I got three pieces of mail yesterday (SC). Two belonged to a house around the corner. Same number, wrong street. Biden really needs to replace the head of the USPS board with someone who get rid of DeJoy. What's really disgusting is that the current guy is A DEMOCRAT! But, he just loves him some Louis DeJoy--even with DeJoy's self-dealing. Sickening.

[forthemiddle]

46. Isn't this one of the main reasons give for no mail from in ballots?

How long before your post becomes a meme on reasons to disqualify your vote? Or mail in voting?
Couldn’t you theoretically mail them all back with “No” to the recall?
It would then be up to the legitimate voters to prove they hadn’t already voted.