Many mail in ballots will not be counted

[edhopper]

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DeJoy has already done enough damage to the post Office to make sure of that. And he continues to fuck things up even more there. It will not be fixed by election day.
So the real battle is to get an overwhelming majority in the Swing States. So that even when Trump has the DHS goons take ballots off of mail trucks and burn them, he still can't overcome the vote against him.

What a sad state of affairs when the President is openly trying to steal an election and his party and the Press normalize it.

And we are already facing this.

Absentee Ballot Rejections Could Triple In Battleground States
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/absentee-ballot-rejections-could-triple-in-battleground-states_n_5f565739c5b6578026d188d6

[sweetloukillbot]

1. DHS will be burning ballots now?

[edhopper]

4. He is laying the ground work

Call them fraudulent enables him to move aggressively to stop them from being counted.
Do not underestimate what he is capable of.

[jimfields33]

2. The primary had a lot not counted

I swear I heard that. I actually hope that false.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/us/politics/postal-service-late-ballots.amp.html



850,000 ballots were thrown out according to google.

[Kaleva]

3. 10,600 out of 1.6 million absentee ballots cast were rejected in the MI. primary

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/michigan/2020/08/14/why-10000-absentee-ballots-were-rejected-in-michigan-primary/

[edhopper]

7. And Trump won there in 2016

By just over 10,000. Make sure a few more never get counted, from the right precincts, and you win the State.

[Kaleva]

8. Rural areas tend to have a higher percentage of absentee ballots not counted

Because of the delays in mail delivery and we know that rural areas tend to support Trump.

[LisaL]

10. How many people are not going to vote at all if not allowed to vote by mail?

I don't think many people are eager to vote in person during a pandemic.

[edhopper]

12. That is the problem

The Democrats and Pelosi wanted to desperately shore up mail in voting because of COVID. Trump, DeJoy, Barr and the GOP are doing everything they can to discredit it and stop it.
Yes about Rural voters normally. But now you have the President targeting where the votes will be delayed.

[LisaL]

15. Many states have drop boxes where one can drop their filled ballot.

Even my state now has one per county.
Dropping ballot in a drop box would avoid having a ballot delayed when going back. Of course it still has to arrive to you first.

[edhopper]

16. There are ways a determined voter can make sure

But most people just want to vote and be done. They don't have the time or where with all to go the extra mile.
Making it harder to vote is the GOP game.

[LisaL]

19. Well, if they don't want to go an extra mile, then you can't count on them

to go vote in person during a pandemic.
Especially if there are lines an so on.

[edhopper]

25. Exactly

why mail in voting is so important. It should be unassailable. But Trump is trying to screw it up.

[edhopper]

6. The WP says it was around 500,000

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rejected-mail-ballots/2020/08/23/397fbe92-db3d-11ea-809e-b8be57ba616e_story.html

Remember Trump won by about 70,000 in 3 States.

[jimfields33]

17. That's so frustrating. Makes me so angry.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

5. Yea, it looks like DeJoy's got someone practicing for the big day.

Surveillance video shows bags of mail being dumped in Glendale, AZ

https://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2020/09/surveillance-video-shows-bags-of-usps-mail-being-dumped-in-glendale-ca-spa-parking-lot/

[LisaL]

9. Glendale, CA.

NT

[NoRoadUntravelled]

11. Glendale may not be the only place in the coming days/weeks.

Rental trucks are inconspicuous enough compared to a truck with the USPS logo.
Trump will lose this election if left to only legal means but will do anything to stay in power at this point.

[LisaL]

13. This particular incident didn't have anything to do with voting.

My guess is somebody was contracted to deliver mail but didn't want to do the work.

[edhopper]

18. DeJoy's plan was to screw up the whole mail system

And both make mail in ballots more likely to not get there, and make people think it's not worth it to vote.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

23. That's what I'm thinking.

Events such as this with truckloads of mail goes a long way to undermine confidence in the system. Exactly what Trump, et al are pushing for to make the election results questionable.

[uponit7771]

14. K&R, we need a come to senses conversation when it comes to DeJoys crimes

[BlueWavePsych]

20. DeJoy making us worse than 3rd world countries!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

21. I am very grateful I live in a state

that has excellent early voting. I had originally thought I'd do vote by mail, but no. I'm going to do it in person early. If I get to a polling place and there's a line I'm not comfortable with, I'll just return later. I'll start on the first day of early voting so I have lots of time to make sure I can vote safely.

I'm in New Mexico.

[roamer65]

22. Get them in early.

Check and make sure they are received as well.

[tapper]

24. Voting early, in person

I live in walking distance of the county courthouse, so I’ve decided to vote early, in person. The mail stopped being sorted Locally several years ago, so that it takes about 3 days to deliver mail to a place a half-mile away.

Unfortunately, Polls show Trump in the lead, albeit smaller than 4 Years ago. Senate and House races have somewhat better chances of turning blue.