USPS Built an Untested, Undocumented Ballot-Blocking System Despite Injunction

hn_acker•about 4 hours ago

The original title is:

> Whistleblower: USPS Defied A Court Injunction To Build An Untested, Undocumented Ballot-Blocking System

elmer2•about 4 hours ago

This article is being disingenuous. Trump doesn't support mail-in ballots when it's automatically sent out to everyone, even if they didn't request it.

This is a vulnerable system that can easily be exploited for fraud.

Ballots should only be sent out, if you request it for each election.

It's astounding that so many people lose all common sense, if it means admitting someone you don't like is correct.

garbagewoman•about 3 hours ago

Its weird, I’ve heard him talk a lot about mail in ballots but never heard him make this precise distinction. You got any quotes which back up what you’re claiming?

ImJamal•about 2 hours ago

Not who you were responding to, but here are a few. The problem is he calls them absentee voting / ballots not mail in ballots which makes it confusing when looking it up.

> Absentee voting is great. You request – I'm an absentee voter because I requested, I got, and then I sent in my vote. So that works out very well. That's what we've had. But now they want to send in millions and millions of ballots.

> Absentee Ballots are fine because you have to go through a precise process to get your voting privilege. Not so with Mail-Ins.

> Absentee Ballots are fine. A person has to go through a process to get and use them. Mail-In Voting, on the other hand, will lead to the most corrupt Election is USA history. Bad things happen with Mail-Ins.

> Absentee good, universal mail-in very bad

0cf8612b2e1e•about 1 hour ago

So, if you have the time and energy to go through an arbitrarily painful process, you can always vote.

Texas just announced they are going to shut down more polling locations in the upcoming election. I wonder if it will happen to be in a Democrat concentrated region.

Unless the absentee process is guaranteed to be frictionless, it is inviting more rat fuckery.

eatmysh0rts•about 4 hours ago

Voters in mail-in states expect their ballot to be mailed to them automatically w/o having to make a request.

dabinat•about 2 hours ago

Is it actually exploited for fraud though? It doesn’t matter if they send me 10 ballots - I can still go to jail for voting more than once.

I think you’re giving too much credence to someone whose argument was disingenuous. It was never about the security of elections, it was about people using mail-in ballots to not vote for him.

developerDan•about 2 hours ago

> Is it actually exploited for fraud though?

We may never know, every single time I see or hear this comment there is never any data/proof to back it up.

Remember: nothing was wrong with how we vote in 2016 and this suddenly became an issue in 2020.

0cf8612b2e1e•about 2 hours ago

We absolutely do know. Study after study has found actual voter fraud to be practically non existent. What does happen a tiny but measurable amount of time: John Smith signing on the line of the wrong John Smith.

Actual, intentional rampant fraud has not been documented.

Tostino•about 1 hour ago

And then in 2024, somehow not an issue again. Crazy how that happens.

mindslight•9 minutes ago

It's disingenuous to invert the issue. It's not a matter of "don't like", but rather defaulting to not believing a habitually lying con artist. That is the smart thing to do, right? The real question is why so many people insist that everyone needs to continue trying to steelman his lying-by-confabulation.

USPS Built an Untested, Undocumented Ballot-Blocking System Despite Injunction

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