And that’s the reason why we had our college daughter mail her absentee ballot inside a larger padded manilla envelope to our house. We delivered her ballot in person and dropped it into the absentee ballot box, so that her vote counted for Romney.
I trust mine but we all know where she lives.
I’ve often thought about this...my county has drop off stations that are large metal containers, locked of course...lately, I’ve been dropping our ballots there...
Timely thread. . .see my Post at the following link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2954766/posts?page=61#61
Which is why I always drop my ballot envelope in the box on the day before election. Here in WA state 100% of voting is done by mail. But I never mail my ballot. There are drop boxes at the secretary of state’s office, and other government offices. I feel more secure doing that than mailing it a week or more ahead of election day.
My mail carrier strongly pro Romney
I had to laugh out loud when I read this post.
If you think your local letter carried gives a shit about who you are voting for, or will risk his well paying job to delay an absentee ballot, then you have not spent much time around letter carriers.
This is hyperbole at its best.
And if you havent mailed in your ballot yet, it ain’t gonna get there in time.
Its truly amazing that we can ever garner more than 20% of the vote.
Think about it.
99% of all news, movie, film,tv, magazines,newspapers are staffed by DNC campaign workers.
Now we vote using 100% unionized Federal employees to make sure our vote makes it to the registrars.
See why the DNC wants the FED and UN to control the web?
She took the bundles of newsletters to the post office for mailing. She found that the local serving post office had a poor delivery rate. She experimented with several other post offices before finding one that consistently got her letters through.
We would absolutely never trust a mail-in ballot.
Respectfully, your worries are not warranted in this regard.
I work in a business mail entry unit, plain old political mail, political advertising IOW, gets royal treatment; extra documentation, chain of custody logs, special handling all the way.
The unit supervisor had to come in on her day off Saturday to unlock her office and produce her logs for OIG auditors because a written report filed Friday didn’t match a computer generated report, because a clerk forgot to check a box while inputting a mailing statement for a political mailing.
Actual absentee ballots are inducted into the mailstream immediately upon receipt, following a count verification, even if the postage is wrong the ballots still get sent, we settle up later.
USPS fires people for taking for personal use the undeliverable, thrown away, laundry soap samples and CDs/DVDs that mailers refuse to pay return postage on.
People that interfere with ballots get arrested by inspectors with real badges (gold ones), real pistols and real handcuffs.
There might, might be one lunatic letter carrier, window or bmeu clerk in 10,000 that would screw around with a ballot, but even the lazy ones would still push ballots through just to avoid the unwanted attention from management, OIG, postal inspectors.....
Today is the last chance you will have to see if your ballot completed the trip.
I hand deliver my absentee ballot to the clerk every single time.
Always eliminate the middleman if possible.
My postwoman seems to be OK. I always get my conservative direct/junk mail.
No. I always use the ballot box. Our city has a huge red ballot box in the middle of downtown that is always located on it’s own small traffic island. It’s like a 2Xsized mailbox. It is only used during elections, and is very convenient. This year, I used the smaller inside box, because I had to be in the election department anyway.