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I stopped our mail carrier yesterday to chat, because our mail has been thin lately and I wanted to get his perspective. He told me that there was a 3+ week backlog of mail that our street hadn't received yet. We're only getting a subset of mail, and even items from the city and county have been delayed. He was distributing a school board item that had been mailed on July 16...on August 8.
He was alarmingly candid: "they're trying to rig the election, and they're going after our pensions". He said they were focusing on the cities in particular.
Yesterday we spent much of the afternoon writing senators, congressmen, our mayor, councilmen, our governor. My friends in the civics and ballot access space say this is the greatest crisis we've seen in their lifetimes.
Delaying the election cannot and will not happen. Delaying the mail IS happening and it can help Trump steal the election.
In many states, ballots mailed before the election that arrive after it, do not count. If you believe — as Trump clearly does — that Democrats will rely on mail balloting more than Republicans, delaying the mail is a very simple way to steal an election.
This is a five alarm fire and we need to respond like the fate our democracy is on the line.
This has to be the number one issue right now. Every Dem politician needs to be talking about this non-stop. It has to be burned into people's brains.
Deb
Delaying mail service, potentially cutting our social security and medicare. What else can Trump do to seniors? Yet there is a big subset who will still vote for him. These are the same people that pre Trump was saying the government better not mess with social security or medicare because they paid for it.
Julie G
In Colorado, ballots have to be received by 7 p.m. on election day. But we have many secure dropboxes they can be deposited in, and there is always a steady stream of cars driving up to them all throughout early voting. It works really well. And you save a stamp or two. Sometimes, when I've weighed my ballot when it's two pages of heavy paper, plus security sleeve and envelope, it's over 1 oz.
It seems like states beginning to experience heavier absentee ballot voting should consider the drop off system.
[ The top poster above is from FL, Deb is from a county south of Houston, and the last one from CO. ] |
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