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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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Post by toomuchtodo »

RickJWagner wrote: post #13
hackyhacky wrote: post #7

> 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.

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You mean where the sitting president said they were going to try to rig the midterms?

> Provide reputable sources, we can discuss it.

His Truth Social account is public. Do we agree that is a reputable source?

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/trum...

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

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Post by NegativeLatency »

RickJWagner wrote: post #13
hackyhacky wrote: post #7

> 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.

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They’d said as much explicitly and implicitly with their actions.

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

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Post by fhdkweig »

torben-friis wrote: post #14
SoftTalker wrote: post #10

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I'm not American, but if I'm not mistaken, you don't have election day off like in other countries, right? If so, how is that not clearly discriminatory for those who can't afford the time to go.

It is not a paid holiday. It isn't an unpaid holiday either. And if you work a minimum wage job, you probably need to work as many hours as you can. And if you don't show up to work on Tuesday, don't bother showing up on Wednesday because you don't have that job anymore.

This is absolutely discriminatory against the poor. That's why the republicans fight for these types of restrictions and democrats fight against them.

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

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Post by gortok »

torben-friis wrote: post #14
SoftTalker wrote: post #10

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I'm not American, but if I'm not mistaken, you don't have election day off like in other countries, right? If so, how is that not clearly discriminatory for those who can't afford the time to go.

No, Election Day is not a paid holiday, or even a recognized holiday. Public schools are generally out (at least the ones used as voting precints) but folks have work, and typically most "in person" votes are cast after 5pm (after folks traditionally leave work).

Mail in voting has been something that the elderly, infirmed, workers, and folks in the military have done for decades. It's remarkably secure and quite auditable. The issue the right has with it is that the folks that vote by mail (the military notwithstanding) are typically democrats.

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

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Post by NDlurker »

torben-friis wrote: post #14
SoftTalker wrote: post #10

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I'm not American, but if I'm not mistaken, you don't have election day off like in other countries, right? If so, how is that not clearly discriminatory for those who can't afford the time to go.

Everywhere I've lived has early voting too. I usually vote a few days before election day because it's not so busy.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

hackyhacky wrote: post #7

> 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.

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

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Post by MithrilTuxedo »

RickJWagner wrote: post #13
hackyhacky wrote: post #7

> 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.

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The fact that reputable sources were not provided to justify the need for fixes has been reputable source enough.

Bullshit is produced for the effect saying it will have.

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

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Post by mcmcmc »

RickJWagner wrote: post #13
hackyhacky wrote: post #7

> 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.

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Project 2025

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

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Post by mcmcmc »

mafuy wrote: post #6
ck2 wrote: 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.

You realize USPS is the government right? It’s literally in the Constitution
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