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sl8

(16,137 posts)
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 01:36 PM Oct 2020

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still_one

(94,775 posts)
1. link?
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 01:39 PM
Oct 2020

Response to still_one (Reply #1)

still_one

(94,775 posts)
5. Thank-you. I suspect there are some deJoy people in the USPS doing this
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 01:43 PM
Oct 2020

underpants

(185,260 posts)
2. Those ballots could have flipped California to Trump
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 01:39 PM
Oct 2020

Not good news but not a huge deal. There are going to be stories like this for the next few weeks.

still_one

(94,775 posts)
4. I think this is someone in the USPS who is doing this instead of delivering the ballots to the
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 01:42 PM
Oct 2020

proper addresses

Actually it is a big deal, because there have been a few reports of the some USPS worker doing this at various places around the country


PSPS

(14,008 posts)
6. Coould have been mailbox bandits after hitting one of those "cluster" boxes.
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 01:49 PM
Oct 2020

Or it could have been staged for use as GOP courtroom fodder.

procon

(15,805 posts)
9. That happens a lot in my rural community where
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 02:04 PM
Oct 2020

banks of mailboxes sit on roadsides with little traffic. Mailbox thieves will clean out the boxes and maybe weeks later someone out riding their horse might find a pile of envelopes dumped in the brush off a road.

I don't know what they are looking for but it must payoff big enough so they keep robbing the mailboxes.

TeamPooka

(25,024 posts)
12. looking for money, checks, gift cards anything of value like that.
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 11:35 PM
Oct 2020

LizBeth

(10,565 posts)
7. We are hearing this more and more. Is it to do with changes in postal where they get no overtime
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 01:51 PM
Oct 2020

and have to deliver within a certain amount of time, so destruction of postal by Trump is going to have more instances of this? I was thinking about this hearing of a similar incident in the NE.

Jeebo

(2,175 posts)
8. Republicons are the ones who are messing with the mail.
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 01:52 PM
Oct 2020

They're the ones who are futzing with the election apparatus on multiple levels to keep us from voting for Democrats. Starting at the very top with DeJoy. If I am reading this correctly -- and somebody please correct me if I am not -- this is much more likely to be somebody who's trying to fix the election in that orange con man's favor, especially in California. Keep people from voting in California and you're much more likely to be messing up Democratic votes.

-- Ron

no_hypocrisy

(48,041 posts)
10. It's happening in several isolated places.
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 02:05 PM
Oct 2020

The "mischief" reminds me of Roger Stone and/or James O'Keefe of Project Veritas.

All you'd have to do is to reproduce the template of absentee ballots, put someone's name and wrong address and return envelope, make about 10,000 of them, and then put them in a dumpster where they'd be discovered. Getting names from local voters rolls could be accomplished if you said you needed them for phone banking.

I think this is a set-up, not voter fraud.

mitch96

(14,428 posts)
11. This is why I took my absentee ballot directly to the Sup of Elections office and deposited it there
Fri Oct 9, 2020, 02:15 PM
Oct 2020

No mail... I understand some people can't do this...
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ailsagirl

(23,350 posts)
13. Deeply disturbing n/t
Sun Oct 18, 2020, 09:20 AM
Oct 2020
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