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Originally posted by chellim1:

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Do you believe the US citizens working in remote consulates around the globe, Mongolia for example, can guarantee mail delivery within 5 days? USPS can’t deliver mail across a state in 5 days often

I was in Europe in 1984 and I voted absentee.
We were told to make sure they were returned early, in plenty of time to be counted on election day.

I've voted absentee several times, while in the military and as a civilian. I was informed when they had to be returned by and I complied. It's not difficult.

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Originally posted by chellim1:

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scotus screwed the pooch on this which I suppose was their intent.

The intent seems to be to get the Congress to do it's job:

I believe that this is the case. But, I won't hold my breath, as Congress hasn't been doing it's job for 30-40 years. Why start now?

The problem is absentee is differnt than mail in.
If I’m in the military or otherwise going to be not available to vote in person on election DAY then I need to positively request a ballot. Mailing one out to anybody that can dog a mirror is some BS.

I moved to florid from CA in 2021. We went to great pains 1) leave before sleeping 180 nights in CA. 2) remove our vehicles from the CA DMV records. There is a painfull process for this and 3) remove ourselves from voting rolls. YET, the local registrar in one of the top 10 biggest counties by population mailed a 2024 presidential ballot out to my wife’s name. And also to our FL address mailed her CA DL renewal this year. We had to provide new address when telling them we were divorcing that state so we know they had received it correctly for her.

The possibly for corruption is only outweighed by .gov employee incompetence.

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Originally posted by oddball:

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Originally posted by slosig:
Suppose a lefty postal worker backdated a stack of ballots, then introduced them into the postal system. Would this not be fraud? Suppose someone who is not even a postal worker got hold of or made a stamp to hand cancel mail, did up a stack of ballots, then added them to an unattended box on a loading dock (or added several boxes). Would this not constitute fraud?

A number of USPS whistleblowers came out in late 2020 in Michigan and Wisconsin to relay eyewitness accounts of backdating stacks of mail-in ballots, tampered with, and just tossed away by USPS workers getting paid by the Democrat Party.

Who were these whistleblowers? I never heard this story.

Turns out Barrett was a huge mistake.

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Turns out Barrett was a huge mistake.

You want decisions based on feelings or strict construction because you can't have both. She was solid in her rationale. Even Kavanaugh's dissent strayed outside of the written law. He said voters ought to know the winners on election day for them to have confidence in the process, but there is no law that said the votes cannot be counted after then, if the ballots were voted before the cutoff.

Agree with above. But the problem is this makes the USPS the guarantor of last minute ballot handling. That's also when all the jiggery pokery takes place.

I'm supposed to 'have confidence' in the USPS?

Pretty much sums it up.

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