CBS News decided to test the system on which the government will trust the sanctity of the ballot this November. And the United States Postal Service criticized him.
It is not about playing with the system, or electoral fraud, or filling the mail with false ballots from illegal aliens. This is the USPS competition to deliver the official ballots mailed on time and to the right people. They proved that the 100 million or more Americans who plan to mail their ballots should not wait for their vote to be counted unless they send it weeks before the election deadlines in each state.
And even then there is no guarantee that it will be processed and will count.
The test parameters were simple and direct. CBS mailed 100 ballots to locations across Philadelphia in an experiment to see how long it took them to get there. A post office box was established to receive the returned ballots.
A few days later, another 100 ballots were sent to another 100 locations in the city. The results should scare Democrats who say it is “every vote that counts.”
A week after the initial ballots were mailed, most of the ballots appeared to be missing from the post office box.
“I don’t see anything there for you,” a postal worker told Dokoupil when he received the mail. “That’s all I have there now.”
After asking for a manager and explaining the situation to them, the votes were found.
“They had them somewhere else,” said the postal worker.
Ho-hum, well, no one is perfect. That’s the point, isn’t it?
Mysterious problems at the local post office also included misclassified mail.
“We received a birthday card from Mike to Ronnie,” Dokoupil said, reading a postcard mistakenly placed in the “CBS This Morning’s” post office box. Have a sweet birthday. Get it? There is a bee on top.
The postcard, along with other poorly sent mail, was sent to the correct recipient.
In the end, late, misdirected, and misdirected mail counts should worry anyone interested in the integrity of our choices.
From the initial batch mailed a week earlier, 97 out of 100 votes had arrived. Three mock people, or 3% of voters, were effectively deprived of their rights by mail by turning in their ballots a week to arrive. In a closed election, 3% could be essential.
Four days after sending the second batch of mock ballots, 21% of the votes had not arrived.
According to the Postal Service’s recommendations, “voters must mail their return ballots at least one week before the expiration date.”
However, almost half of all states still allow voters to request ballots less than a week before the election.
Democrats who are pushing this notion that a mail-in election will be no different from an in-person election should listen to voters who are much more grounded in reality.
“I’m afraid it might get lost in the mail,” said potential voter Kim Tucker. “I just want to make sure my vote is sent, like, I see it was sent, that it really counts.”
The November elections are shaping up to be the mother of all cluster groups. At all levels, federal, state and local, election officials are sounding the alarm. The system was not built to handle 120 million mail-in ballots. Processing and protecting those ballots is beyond the capabilities of almost every state.
The concern is not just about the integrity of the ballot. The onslaught of legal challenges to results will almost certainly last for years and may even delay the session of state and local legislatures.
Democrats will bring all of this on themselves. It is a shame that the rest of us suffer from their stupidity.
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