A good afternoon to all. This Wednesday AM, I wrote about mail-in voting. My position is to follow the old USPS slogan of, “through rain, sleet and snow..”voters must go vote in-person. All of this is caused by the Democrat hysteria ver potential changes within the USPS. In their inimitable fashion, the BabylonBee has resolved the issue. Please enjoy as much as I did.
Brilliant Trump Puts Himself On All Postage Stamps,
Forcing Democrats To Push For Abolishing USPS
August 17th, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Sources are reporting that Trump has dealt a killer blow in his ongoing war against his sworn enemy, the U.S. Post Office. In a move of sheer, mind-blowing brilliance, Trump directed the Post Office to put his face on every single stamp, forcing the Democrats to reverse course and abolish the institution once and for all.
The new stamp, dubbed “The Trump-Stamp,” to be used on all pieces of mail features a smiling Donald Trump, with the caption “GREATEST PRESIDENT EVER.”
Don Lemon broke the news in a tearful address to the nation last night. “Our democracy is over,” he said. “It doesn’t exist anymore. I will never send another piece of mail ever again, and neither should you or else you’re a racist.”
Antifa and BLM responded by marching on local post offices and burning them down. Enthusiastic Trump supporters quickly bought up all the stamps. They are now selling for $3,000 apiece online.
On August 18th, PJ Media had a headline reading; “The Manufactured Hysteria Over Mail Delivery
The new Trump conspiracy by the Democrats is his attempt to sabotage the November election. How is he committing this sabotage? He will not give the postal unions and incompetent managers in the postal service $25 billion to play with. The usual suspects, Pelosi and her cronies, have declared this a crisis. According to the usual suspects, procrastinators, those who lack planning skills to mail their vote in in a timely manner, will find their votes will not be counted. Whose fault is their lack of planning? Need you ask?
The article contains information from various postal worker organizations, issued this past Saturday, and reads as follows:
“The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) and the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) know the truth; the members of these unions are the people who actually process and deliver the mail. Postal Workers and Letter Carriers both say, unequivocally, that no matter how much the administration tries to undermine trust in the postal system, the system remains fully capable of delivering every single ballot cast by mail in a secure and timely manner.
“Indeed, the NALC assures that even if every single vote in the November 2020 election were cast by mail, the U.S. Postal Service would have no problem delivering the ballots, whether or not Congress provides the funding included in the HEROES Act.
“The U.S. Postal Service has an entire structure in place to coordinate with state and local election boards to facilitate secure and timely delivery of mail ballots.
One would think with such reassurances, the coterie of hysteria would feel reassured. One would be incorrect. The crone is about to call the members of the House of Representatives off the campaign trail and back to Washington to deal with the “crisis.”
Interestingly enough and according to various news sources, they are returning to discuss organizational issues and not funding. You may be asking why they need to deal with organizational issues, not the Post Master General. That is a topic all its own.
After writing the above diatribe, let me get to the important message.
DO NOT VOTE BY MAIL!
Having said that, if you live in a predominantly blue progressive geography, voting by mail is, probably, safe. The letter carriers and other postal employees will want to make sure all ballots are delivered! Make no mistake, they are fully supportive of the Biden ticket. If you live in a red geographic area or a swing geographic area, I would have little faith in all ballots being delivered in a timely manner. You need to take the old postal slogan as your mantra; through rain, sleet or snow..the voter will go in person to vote.
Finally, as you consider the time and effort to go vote in person, Samual Adams provides us with wise thoughts.
Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual — or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.” —Samuel Adams (1781)
There is an entity rarely named that we must trust to respect our privacy and fulfill our wishes when it comes to mail-in voting. An unavoidable contractor that, by forced proxy, would ultimately be the device casting many of our votes . . . the United States Postal Service. First-Class Mail service is an integral part of the mail-in vote process, two parts for some voters. USPS gets the ballot to the voter and, for citizens not offered/interested in a ballot drop off option, returns the ballot to the election office. When we cast our vote at a voting center, we know it’s been submitted. On time. When we cast our vote into a big blue box, we are left to wonder if it will end up better traveled than ourselves . . . and, uncounted.
About a week ago, “CBS This Morning” released the results of a study they’d completed on Vote By Mail. Mail-in ballot request and submission deadlines differ throughout the nation. This, and the 2016 uncounted mail-in vote numbers*, inspired CBS producers to craft an experiment in hopes they would be able to determine how long it takes an election ballot to travel from voter drop-off to election office. Mock ballots were produced, folded and placed in return envelopes to approximate the size and weight of a genuine ballot. There was but one difference between the mock ballots and the real thing – an official expedited service logo that appears on the real voting ballot return envelope was not on the test ballot envelopes. After establishing an “Election Office” address (P.O. Box,) study facilitators mailed 100 mock ballots from locations throughout the city of Philadelphia to their drop. A few days later, 100 more mock ballots were mailed to the P.O. box address from other locations in the city.
When checking the P.O. box one week after the first batch of ballots had been mailed, CBS producers found the box did not runneth over with returned ballots. Surprised and puzzled, they told the manager about the mail-in vote experiment. He then rummaged about and produced many more returned mock ballots.
“They had them somewhere else,” was the official reason offered by a postal worker. Mmmkay, that excuse would work for me where I’ve worked . . . about as well as lead floats. Moving on . . .
At least two pieces of mail in the P.O. box needed to be returned to the Postmaster so the missives could get to their actual addressees . . . missorted mail. If it works one way, it works the other. Can we hold fast to a belief that all people who receive a misdirected ballot would return it to the Post Office for proper delivery? Unopened? Even if they did, the ballot would take that much more time to arrive at an election office for recording, potentially missing the ballot submission deadline . . . rendered null, never counted.
For mail-in voting, the Postal Service’s official recommendation is that voters mail their ballots at least one week prior to the vote submission deadline. One week after the first batch of 100 mock ballots was mailed to the CBS election office address from points around Philadelphia, 97 had been received. That means, 3% (I did that without a calculator) of the mock votes submitted via USPS – following USPS recommended time guidelines – would not be counted as they would have been delivered too late. Of the second batch of 100 mock ballots sent out, 79 ballots were received four days after their posting.
That was 100 ballots. Imagine the United States Postal Service handling 138,000,000 – the number of Americans who cast a vote in 2016. (No imagining just before bed, please . . . nightmares.) Expecting U.S. of American citizens to embrace a government-designated middleman thrust into their voting process that will not, and certainly will not be able to, provide assurance that our ballots will definitely be delivered to us in time to vote; and, definitely be returned to the election office in time to be counted – without any tampering either direction – is a flagrant flip off to US of American rights and individual value systems.
There are many good reasons to keep our vote casting an in-person event . . . fraud, of course, and other things like, national responsibility . . . humbled by privilege . . . the gathering of community. Forced to assign my right and responsibility to personally cast a private vote over to a faceless, unaccountable courier? That, alone, is enough for me to say NO to mandatory Vote By Mail.
*Of the 33 million ballots cast by mail in 2016, more than 73,000 American votes were nullified because the ballots were not received in time to be counted
