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In reply to the discussion: If Garland won't secure the ballot boxes Biden MUST! The burnings are escalating [View all]TwilightZone
(28,836 posts)In the context of what's being asked for in this thread, it makes little difference if ballot drop-off boxes are more secure than outdoor mailboxes when ballots are still going through the latter. Arson dude just changes his target. The only difference is that one method is more likely to have ballots in it.
The argument that the process should be made 100% secure, as many are demanding in this thread, is unsupportable. It's logistically impossible unless outdoor mailboxes are removed from the equation.
As I said in other responses, this is not to say that improvements in the process cannot be made. They clearly can. And I'm not saying we shouldn't make ballot drop-offs more secure, because that's obvious.
But if the expectation is that Garland (ignoring for the sake of argument that it's a state/local responsibility and not DOJ's) should be able to guarantee that this will never happen under any circumstances, that's simply ignoring reality.