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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLets use the Post Office crisis to our advantage
Continue with the idea of heavy reliance on "mail in" ballots.
Let the MAGAts continue to fuck with the post office.
Do ballot drop-off boxes. Require one drop box for every . . . . I dunno . . . . . 5,000? . . . . citizens. That will put a drop box (figuratively) on every street corner in urban areas and close in suburbs and result in them being one for every (figuratively) 40 square miles.
Blue areas would get easy access to cast their ballots.
Red areas would have to use a tank of gas to do the same.
BamaRefugee
(3,488 posts)fierywoman
(7,705 posts)drop-off box in each town. Easy-peasy and very secure.
marlakay
(11,534 posts)I drop off at box at clerks office.
But I read on DU earlier they said some states don't have the boxes. I guess trying to make it harder to vote.
2naSalit
(86,920 posts)You can take it to the precinct poll or the county registrar up to election polls closing on election day or mail it in time to reach the official place.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Is to return via mail. Cannot drop off in person anywhere.
And, once you request mail in ballot, you are NOT allowed to vote in person.
Thekaspervote
(32,820 posts)And place it in the ballot box yourself
frazzled
(18,402 posts)(But I would do ballot drop-off at an official, indoor Board of Election sitenever on street corners.) We've had mail stolen from street-side mailboxes. Two checks for bills (ones we don't pay online) we mailed never arrived at their destinations, and we happened asked the mail carrier what might have happened to them. He said, "oh, never put them in the street mailbox, we've had break-ins; people just take a whole bunch and see if there's anything they can use. Take them to the post-office." Fortunately, we have a post office just three blocks from our house.
So no, don't put them on street corners if you want your ballots to be collected.
panader0
(25,816 posts)inside in a building that used to be the cop shop.