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‘Track your ballot like a package’: How technology will smooth the way for November’s mail-in ballot surge
Fast Company ^ | 05-07-20 | Talib Visram

Posted on 05/08/2020 7:29:13 PM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance

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Wendy Weiser, director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice

Brennan? As in commie muslim criminal Brennan?

61 posted on 05/09/2020 4:36:57 AM PDT by Pollard (shadowbanned)
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To: ronnie raygun

Right. And if you can’t figure out the mailed ballot, just hand the blank one to our volunteer who will be by Your house on Election Day to take it in for you.


62 posted on 05/09/2020 4:48:47 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

Ballot tracking is a piece of that—and it’s a valuable piece.”

Like the overseas ballots during Bush v Gore?


63 posted on 05/09/2020 4:53:21 AM PDT by Texas resident (Remember in November)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

It will not be too difficult for a leftist postal worker in a red area to “lose” ballots as they come through his (or her) post office.


64 posted on 05/09/2020 4:53:52 AM PDT by Russ (I)
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To: madprof98
Anyone who has tried to use USPS “tracking” knows it’s a joke.

Actually, the USPS tracking system is greatly improved. Not quite as good as that of UPS or FedEx, though.

The caveat is that the item has to be scanned at various places along its route, which doesn't always happen.

I ship several hundred packages a year with the USPS, and the problem rate is less than 1%. I had an incoming UPS package go missing recently, and another one arrived with a hole punched in a double-wall carton, so they aren't perfect either.

The real concern with mail voting is NOT whether the ballot arrives at its destination, it is what happens to the ballot once it arrives.

65 posted on 05/09/2020 4:55:05 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (This tagline is an advertisement-free zone. Is yours?)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

It may sound primitive, but the “dipping the finger in the indelible ink” practice used in Iraq’s only free election in 2004? Is the best way to prevent voter fraud.


66 posted on 05/09/2020 5:45:06 AM PDT by oldbill
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Eliminate the root....... the governor.


67 posted on 05/09/2020 5:51:45 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

Right.

I ordered $50 worth of stamps from the USPS website 12 days ago. They charged me $1.80 postage and told me the stamps would ship in 5-7 business days. I have not received them yet. When I check the order under my USPS account, there’s no tracking number assigned yet and it tells me the order is “processing”.

They wonder why the USPS is going belly up...

Voting by mail will be the biggest fustercluck this nation has ever seen. And that will be BEFORE the Democrats wrap in their illegal vote-rigging schemes.


68 posted on 05/09/2020 6:46:38 AM PDT by moovova
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“Voting by mail will be the biggest fustercluck this nation has ever seen.”

And isn’t it convenient that voter rolls contain voter’s political party and home address? (At least they did in the ‘80s when I worked elections.)

As mail-in ballots are received, check the return address against the voter roll. If the roll shows “D”, keep the ballot; if it shows “R”, it goes to the shredder.

SO easy.


69 posted on 05/09/2020 6:50:02 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Nothing happens to a Christian that God does not allow to happen.)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

Even just 30 years ago you showed up election day and voted. There were very few absentee ballots that went out to the very old and the sick. Matter of fact you would be proud to physically get to the polls and vote on election day.

The Dems have been undermining this for years. The first attack on it was motor voter laws of 1993...Under Bill Clinton of course.


70 posted on 05/09/2020 6:59:22 AM PDT by dennisw
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Voting by mail will be the biggest fustercluck this nation has ever seen.
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Send all the ballots REGISTERED, signature required.

If they all hit at the same time etc should be about 6 months before the task completed.

The trouble with ‘free delivery’ is that they can just drop it anywhere.

99.9% of my stuff is signature required (which I like because it proves that I dropped it) but, then again, I don’t handle something at the 20 from DC to NYC area and carry it with a truckload of ‘other’ stuff.

I do believe that before home delivery, FEDEX did get signatures etc.

I used to do FEDEX same day and FEDEX EXPEDITE(when THEY misroute a package) before they started doing it all.

So that $20 package that was sent to Paris Virginia instead of Paris New York ends up costing FEDEX another $300 or so bucks for ME to deliver it.

Another ‘great’ job for someone wanting part time or even somewhat full is misrouted baggage delivery at the airports.

That used to be very lucrative if working DIRECT for the airline...They used to ‘farm’ it out to a company who would hire ICs to do the delivery.

Volume works in these cases, Imagine FEDEX farms it out to the Company I ICd for, and on occasion I would pass it off with ALL ‘making money’ but FEDEX or United Air on that one particular piece.


71 posted on 05/09/2020 7:23:54 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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“Another ‘great’ job for someone wanting part time or even somewhat full is misrouted baggage delivery at the airports.”

Hah! I may’ve mentioned this to you before... When I was MUCH younger, I worked for Piedmont Airlines, in the baggage claims office. I’m very familiar with the folks delivering the misrouted bags. They were life-savers. Working outta that office...I could tell you some stories! That was fun work for a young kid that liked to travel.


72 posted on 05/09/2020 7:38:42 AM PDT by moovova
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Does 3 day delivery of additional “ballots” to the trunk of some obscure, electric powered clown-type car cost extra? Asking for inner city Democrat voters in highly contested battleground states.


73 posted on 05/09/2020 8:59:29 AM PDT by Moonlighter
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To: moovova

Good money IF you are willing to work long hours, can read a map and follow directions.

Problem was the ‘brokers’ (the guys YOU dealt with) usually tried to stiff the drivers or would screw with the money.
Had one bounce a check on me and when I got over the ‘mad’ I played the ‘get even’ game. (They usually would get to owing you money then hold that over your head - to keep you working)...I am not like the average bear, you don’t clear the check up immediately I tend to think of it as ‘lost’ so when I do get it, it is a ‘bonus’ (’creative’ bookkeeping but allow one to maintain some sort of sanity)
Anway, I tracked everything and where possible get a sig, so I went to the broker and told him I was going to start calling the people I delivered to and demand they pay me. He laughed and said good luck with that they will tell you to go to hell.
I said that I knew that but after MY 3rd or 4th call THEY would call the airlines (who would probably ignore) BUT after the airline received a bunch of calls they would be pounding on your door threatening to kick you out.
Then I would step in, take over your ‘business’ and NOT hire you.
Had my CERTIFIED check with some extras thrown in in two days.

I think of the ‘lost baggage world’ whenever I see ‘Howard’(Big Bang) trying to get his mothers LOST cremains from the airline with ‘Bernadette’ telling the female clerk that one way or the other they were going to leave the airport with SOME WOMANs ashes.


74 posted on 05/09/2020 10:29:30 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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