Nothing to see here! Look away!
Yeah, it's just election officials all across the country sounding the warning alarm about problems with the USPS that could interfere with our elections.
But don't you dare say that the election isn't the most secure ever!
From the AP:
State and local election officials from across the country on Wednesday warned that problems with the nation's mail delivery system threaten to disenfranchise voters in the upcoming presidential election, telling the head of the U.S. Postal Service that it hasn't fixed persistent deficiencies.
In an alarming letter, the officials said that over the past year, including the just-concluded primary season, mailed ballots that were postmarked on time were received by local election offices days after the deadline to be counted. They also noted that properly addressed election mail was being returned to them as undeliverable, a problem that could automatically send voters to inactive status through no fault of their own, potentially creating chaos when those voters show up to cast a ballot.
So, they aren't getting the ballots on time.
Shocker.
There are two possible solutions to this; I wonder which we will go with.
First, we could just say, "The system is broken for mail, so let's not do mail-in votes."
OR we could say that we need to wait and wait weeks and weeks for ballots to trickle in slowly and surely until we get the right amount to guarantee the outcome preferred by the system.
I wonder which we will choose?
The officials also said that repeated outreach to the Postal Service to resolve the issues had failed and that the widespread nature of the problems made it clear these were 'not one-off mistakes or a problem with specific facilities. Instead, it demonstrates a pervasive lack of understanding and enforcement of USPS policies among its employees.'
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In their letter Wednesday, election officials said colleagues across the U.S. have reported that Postal Service staff, from managers to mail carriers, are uninformed about the service's policies for handling election-related mail, give them inconsistent guidance and misdeliver ballots.
'There is no amount of proactive communication election officials can do to account for USPS's inability to meet their own service delivery timelines,' the officials wrote. 'State and local election officials need a committed partner in USPS.'
I can't wait until November when they tell us that we missed a few thousand ballots and that they're still coming in and that if we just wait a few more weeks we'll find out that the person who appeared to win on election night didn't really win.
How hard is it to only have in-person paper ballots only counted on election day?
It's gonna be a wild next few months.
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