I would suggest that this not indicative of more densely populated regions, and I think it suggests an unlikeliness for a sorting fraud to occur unless it also involved whole mail batches.
It doesn’t account for the surveillance at the larger processing center.
That doesn’t make the scenario impossible.
I am arguing implausible, not impossible.
Wholesale staff reductions, removal of sorters, mail reclassification and slowed collection are more plausible.
But those are postmaster and board of governors level decisions.
I gave you an answer based on your original questions.
It could be done in areas who process things like our area.
Okay, it looks like ballots usually go to the local courthouse for counting.
The scenario in the OP may not be realistic in that it is usually not a single post office for the whole state, but I suspect that there are any number of other possibilities for postal workers to delay delivery of ballots if they choose.
How, Bill? How?
It’s not really plausible, and these are precisely population concentrations where effect is diminished.
Nor does it answer for surveillance at the processung center.
How would they know which ballots to “lose”?
Is it safe to mail cash? How could cash possibly disappear with all the tight security?
How many billions is the presidential election worth?
All it takes simply simply “misplacing” some ballots for a few days: No theft, no obvious crime.
They wouldn’t. They could however, lose a large portion of them if they so chose.
It wouldn’t be impossible to lose ballots from a predominately left or right leaning area but that would be about as far down as you could take it. You couldn’t get ballot specific as far as content.
Yes, it is actually surprisingly safe to mail cash.
That is a question for philosophers.
How do you know which ballots to “misplace”?
Why are you continuing to forget that ballots in the scenario I gave you do NOT go to the processing center?
Bill,
I’m asking you to kindly show the mechanisms by which this would be done without resorting to the more obvious, and documented, upoer management sabotaging.
How would postal workers actually accomplish the task of misdirecting ballots without triggering an inspector’s review, or tipping off internal surveillance?
I’m not. You guys aren’t showing how.
You keep mentioning surveillance at the processing center etc.
Ours never go there. I’m sure we aren’t the only ones doing it that way.
Didn’t you argue that all your local mail went to a processing center?
Where is it going that’s 100 miles away?
Sweet Mother Mary.
Our PO did not run ballots through sorters. Our mail is sent each day to a processor 100 miles away and then sent back if it is a local letter etc. or on it’s merry way if not local.
Because of that, all ballots were collected separately in a mail container at the PO and sent directly to the courthouse due to time constraints.
In other words, not processed the same way regular mail is. In that scenario it would be very easy to “lose” a large number of ballots if workers so chose.
I’m done.
You aren’t paying attention.
You stated your mail went 100 miles away. To where? I’m trying to understand the general procedure.
And I stated how the ballots were handled which is differently than normal mail.
You keep leaving that part out.
