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Many American voters are caught between competing concerns regarding the fall presidential election, as they weigh fears about the public health risks of voting in person against growing alarm about the ability of the U.S. Postal Service to deliver a mail-in ballot on time.
Worries about the Postal Service have mounted in recent days after President Trump said he might oppose funding the agency to stop Americans from voting by mail. And on Friday it was revealed that the Postal Service recently warned 46 states and the District of Columbia that it may not be able to deliver all mail-in ballots on time.
That comes after a few weeks of reports about the recently installed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy — a wealthy Trump donor with potential financial conflicts of interest in the mail industry — making changes to the Postal Service that are already causing a slowdown in mail delivery.
But there are ways to vote by mail without having to rely on the Postal Service to return your ballot. You could call it a hybrid process of receiving a ballot early through the mail and then returning it in person, before Election Day.
The Postal Service is the only way to receive an absentee or mail-in ballot in most states.
I'll be dropping mine in the box at the polling place right outside my subdivision.
Also, both here and in NH when I lived there, you could just go into the town office and pick up your absentee ballot. You can return them there too but I'll use the polling place because where I have to go here to pick one up and return it to them is about a half hour drive away.
I wouldn't have a problem with people dropping off their ballot at the election office. But, if this happens--especially considering the number of people who say they want to vote by mail--wouldn't it make sense to just go to the polls? This is especially so as I'd expect that the small election offices are NOT equipped to handle a surge of people showing up dropping their ballots off
Note, this is leftists attempting to sound smart, but they fail to recognize that this argument truly defeats the purpose of being against in-person voting.
I wouldn't have a problem with people dropping off their ballot at the election office. But, if this happens--especially considering the number of people who say they want to vote by mail--wouldn't it make sense to just go to the polls? This is especially so as I'd expect that the small election offices are NOT equipped to handle a surge of people showing up dropping their ballots off
Note, this is leftists attempting to sound smart, but they fail to recognize that this argument truly defeats the purpose of being against in-person voting.
Co-Signed... If you can leave your home to go drop off your ballot, might as well just vote early IN PERSON.
I wouldn't have a problem with people dropping off their ballot at the election office. But, if this happens--especially considering the number of people who say they want to vote by mail--wouldn't it make sense to just go to the polls? This is especially so as I'd expect that the small election offices are NOT equipped to handle a surge of people showing up dropping their ballots off
Note, this is leftists attempting to sound smart, but they fail to recognize that this argument truly defeats the purpose of being against in-person voting.
Because not everyone needs to wait till Election Day nor do all of us have time to spend waiting in any lines.
Because not everyone needs to wait till Election Day nor do all of us have time to spend waiting in any lines.
Derka durr.
And you seriously believe that you won't have lines at the elections office? Again, these elections offices are not huge places such as a school polling station. You and every other person and their momma dropping off ballots would be waiting in a line at the elections office as there would have to be some reception process to verify that you turned in the ballot. Given that there are very few elections offices and given that the offices are not staffed to handle a crush of people wanting to drop their ballots off (it will not be as simple as dropping the ballot off and walking away), that's asking for a disaster in terms of long lines. Like I wrote, this is leftists trying to sound clever on this issue, not realizing that it destroys their arguments against in person voting.
As for waiting until Election Day, last time I checked, 43 states either offer no-excuse early voting or are all vote by mail states.
In North Carolina, you can drop off your ballot at early voting sites or the Board of Election office, but you need to wait in line with the voters and go through a process to "verify" your ballot.
Not sure what the process is in other states.
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