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Stinky The Clown

(67,669 posts)
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 05:49 PM Jul 2020

Lets use the Post Office crisis to our advantage

Continue with the idea of heavy reliance on "mail in" ballots.

Let the MAGAts continue to fuck with the post office.

Do ballot drop-off boxes. Require one drop box for every . . . . I dunno . . . . . 5,000? . . . . citizens. That will put a drop box (figuratively) on every street corner in urban areas and close in suburbs and result in them being one for every (figuratively) 40 square miles.

Blue areas would get easy access to cast their ballots.

Red areas would have to use a tank of gas to do the same.

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Lets use the Post Office crisis to our advantage (Original Post) Stinky The Clown Jul 2020 OP
Those boxes would be set on fire by "Federal police" instantly. BamaRefugee Jul 2020 #1
Here in WA where it's 100% mail in, we can either use USPS (free postage) or place in secure fierywoman Jul 2020 #2
Same here in Oregon marlakay Jul 2020 #4
Same in Montana. 2naSalit Jul 2020 #8
TN - Only option SheltieLover Jul 2020 #3
Those without those options. Hand carry you ballot to your city hall or courthouse..find out which Thekaspervote Jul 2020 #5
We don't even use the mailboxes in our neighborhood frazzled Jul 2020 #6
I dropped my mail-in primary ballot at a county building, panader0 Jul 2020 #7

fierywoman

(7,641 posts)
2. Here in WA where it's 100% mail in, we can either use USPS (free postage) or place in secure
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 05:51 PM
Jul 2020

drop-off box in each town. Easy-peasy and very secure.

marlakay

(11,370 posts)
4. Same here in Oregon
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 06:08 PM
Jul 2020

I drop off at box at clerks office.

But I read on DU earlier they said some states don't have the boxes. I guess trying to make it harder to vote.

2naSalit

(86,035 posts)
8. Same in Montana.
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 08:10 PM
Jul 2020

You can take it to the precinct poll or the county registrar up to election polls closing on election day or mail it in time to reach the official place.

SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
3. TN - Only option
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 06:06 PM
Jul 2020

Is to return via mail. Cannot drop off in person anywhere.

And, once you request mail in ballot, you are NOT allowed to vote in person.

Thekaspervote

(32,605 posts)
5. Those without those options. Hand carry you ballot to your city hall or courthouse..find out which
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 06:17 PM
Jul 2020

And place it in the ballot box yourself

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
6. We don't even use the mailboxes in our neighborhood
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 06:39 PM
Jul 2020

(But I would do ballot drop-off at an official, indoor Board of Election site—never on street corners.) We've had mail stolen from street-side mailboxes. Two checks for bills (ones we don't pay online) we mailed never arrived at their destinations, and we happened asked the mail carrier what might have happened to them. He said, "oh, never put them in the street mailbox, we've had break-ins; people just take a whole bunch and see if there's anything they can use. Take them to the post-office." Fortunately, we have a post office just three blocks from our house.

So no, don't put them on street corners if you want your ballots to be collected.

panader0

(25,816 posts)
7. I dropped my mail-in primary ballot at a county building,
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 07:14 PM
Jul 2020

inside in a building that used to be the cop shop.

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