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Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

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Re: Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

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good thing it's completely illegal for the federal government to interfere with state voting proceedure

> For instance, the Postal Service has what the whistleblower claims is a "zero percent failure rate."

> Mail workers would scan a sample of a batch of mail ballots — about 400 out of a batch of 10,000 or more — to verify it matches what is in the federal mail ballot portal.

> Under the policy, if even one barcode on a single ballot in the batch doesn't scan properly or the information does not match, the entire batch would be rejected and returned to state election officials so the problem ballot could be addressed, and then the verification process would have to be started again.

Re: Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

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post #2

good thing it's completely illegal for the federal government to interfere with state voting proceedure > For instance, the Postal Service has what the whistleblower claims is a "zero percent failure rate." > Mail workers would scan a sample of a batch of mail ballots — about 400 out of a batch of 10,000 or more — to verify it matches what is in the federal mail ballot portal. > Under the policy, if even one barcode…

That sample is wrong for statistics, 4% is literally not significant. It's also too much for sample controls

Re: Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

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post #2

good thing it's completely illegal for the federal government to interfere with state voting proceedure > For instance, the Postal Service has what the whistleblower claims is a "zero percent failure rate." > Mail workers would scan a sample of a batch of mail ballots — about 400 out of a batch of 10,000 or more — to verify it matches what is in the federal mail ballot portal. > Under the policy, if even one barcode…

That sample is wrong for statistics, 4% is literally not significant. It's also too much for sample controls

No one ever accused this administration of being competent.

Re: Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That sample is wrong for statistics, 4% is literally not significant. It's also too much for sample controls

No one ever accused this administration of being competent.

maybe so, but it is very vocal about they are the most modest

Re: Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

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post #2

good thing it's completely illegal for the federal government to interfere with state voting proceedure > For instance, the Postal Service has what the whistleblower claims is a "zero percent failure rate." > Mail workers would scan a sample of a batch of mail ballots — about 400 out of a batch of 10,000 or more — to verify it matches what is in the federal mail ballot portal. > Under the policy, if even one barcode…

This is not the job of the postal service, but of the government. There is zero reason to outsource verification, and the postal service ought to vehemently reject this attempt to shift responsibility. Though I guess they won't, seeing as they are gleichgeschaltet.

Re: Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

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> Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

Yes. That's the point. The administration doesn't care about fixing whatever hypothetical mail ballot fraud may or may not exist; they are doing this to inject chaos into the election results, giving them cover to claim any result they want or even to just throw out the results entirely. Catastrophic problems are the means to that end.

Re: Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

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post #2

good thing it's completely illegal for the federal government to interfere with state voting proceedure > For instance, the Postal Service has what the whistleblower claims is a "zero percent failure rate." > Mail workers would scan a sample of a batch of mail ballots — about 400 out of a batch of 10,000 or more — to verify it matches what is in the federal mail ballot portal. > Under the policy, if even one barcode…

Assuming they check 400 out of 10k, and assuming someone would want to cause any meaningful discrepancies >= 1% of the ballots, meaning 100 problematic ballots per 10k batch.

This system would catch it 98,3% of the time. Pretty good, I'd say.

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