{"id":29351,"date":"2020-09-30T10:47:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T15:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=29351"},"modified":"2020-09-30T10:47:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T15:47:59","slug":"mail-in-balloting-dumped-mail-no-problem-here-yeah-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2020\/09\/30\/mail-in-balloting-dumped-mail-no-problem-here-yeah-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Mail-in Balloting &#8211; Dumped Mail &#8211; No Problem Here&#8230;Yeah right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>9\/30\/20 &#8211; The increase in requests, and push, for mail-in ballots have increased tremendously since the 2016 election &#8211; we are all aware of that &#8211; mostly because of COVID &#8211; but also because some political forces see mail-in balloting as a means to &#8216;hopefully&#8217; insure a win for their candidate, Biden,\u00a0 or at least opening the door to contest the election. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2020\/09\/the-democrats-vote-by-mail-conundrum\/616535\/\">The Atlantic<\/a> says &#8220;According to polls, Democrats are three to four times more likely to vote by mail than Republicans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Everyday you read articles from the national media that says there is no problem with mail-in balloting&#8230;none. DO NOT believe this. At the same time these same media outlets post troubling articles like the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2020\/09\/mail-in-voting-in-new-york-city-is-already-getting-ugly.html\">100,000 Brooklyn Voters Possibly Got Ballots With the Wrong Names on Them<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5893881\/exclusive-as-states-prepared-mail-in-ballots-postal-service-failed-to-update-at-least-1-8-million-addresses\/\">As States Prepared Mail-in Ballots, Postal Service Failed to Update at Least 1.8 Million Addresses<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/story\/2020-09-11\/usps-turmoil-challenges-mail-vote\">A million mail-in ballots could go uncounted this fall. The USPS may not be to blame<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/09\/28\/nyc-voters-wrongly-getting-mail-in-ballots-marked-for-military-use\/\">NYC voters are wrongly receiving mail-in ballots marked for military use<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc27.com\/news\/us-world\/politics\/election\/investigators-recover-discarded-military-ballots-in-luzerne-county\/\">Investigators recover discarded military ballots in Luzerne County<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/election-2020\/2020\/09\/27\/probe-into-discarded-military-mail-in-ballots-becomes-campaign-outrage-fuel\/\">Probe into \u2018discarded\u2019 mail-in military ballots becomes campaign outrage fuel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/1000-georgia-voters-face-prosecution-for-casting-multiple-ballots\/\">1,000 Georgia Voters Face Prosecution for Casting Multiple Ballots<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mooresvilletribune.com\/news\/national\/voters-poorly-marked-ovals-could-lead-to-contested-ballots\/article_38189a69-4706-5124-b28f-44d0b7ee1531.html\">Voters&#8217; poorly marked ovals could lead to contested ballots<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/09\/29\/growing-signs-that-mass-mail-in-voting-is-going-to-be-a-disaster\/\">Growing signs that mass mail-in voting is going to be a disaster<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postcrescent.com\/story\/news\/2020\/09\/24\/outagamie-county-absentee-ballots-found-along-road-fox-valley-greenville\/3517714001\/\">Postal Service investigates mail, including absentee ballots, found along road in Outagamie County<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/news\/elections\/mc-nws-pa-military-ballots-trump-investigation-20200924-64deogjxn5dhhpwdv7osltqrmy-story.html\">7 military ballots for Trump discarded in Luzerne County, feds say<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/features\/retro-baltimore\/bs-fe-retro-ballots-20200903-45bwp36t2bfvvmiy3pmpca7zku-story.html\">Mail-in ballots were subject to fraud in Baltimore during the Civil War<\/a> &#8211; historical<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We could post many more examples of problematic mail-in balloting, but what&#8217;s the use&#8230;most do not want to believe that mail-in voting has any problems. We do agree that absentee balloting is safe for voters&#8230;IF, their ballots don&#8217;t get thrown in the trash somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>You go to Walmart &#8211; you go to fast food outlets and restaurants\u00a0 &#8211; and most people are continuing their normal lives even during this pandemic. So, in an effort to make certain your vote gets counted&#8230;get out of the house, protect yourself with a mask, and go vote at your local voting location. You will feel confidant that your vote was counted.<\/p>\n<p>By all means&#8230;VOTE and STAY SAFE.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29352\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Mail-in-Voting2-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Mail-in-Voting2-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Mail-in-Voting2.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9\/30\/20 &#8211; The increase in requests, and push, for mail-in ballots have increased tremendously since the 2016 election &#8211; we are all aware of that &#8211; mostly because of COVID &#8211; but also because some political forces see mail-in balloting as a means to &#8216;hopefully&#8217; insure a win for their candidate, Biden,\u00a0 or at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29353,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29351\/revisions\/29353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}