2/15/18 Allowing people to vote by mail boosts turnout, especially during lower-profile elections, the authors of a new study say.
The research is based on data from a 2014 midterm election in Colorado, one of three states that conduct all voting by mail. According to the study, allowing people in Colorado to vote at home increased overall turnout by 3.3 percent that year — and by even more among young and low-propensity voters.
Monty Trabue, a mail handler at the Louisville, KY, Processing and Distribution Center, checks a tub for Election Mail in 2016
“Anyone who cares about improving turnout should make vote at home a top priority,” Gilad Edelman and Paul Glastris, two journalists who commissioned the study, wrote in a recent Washington Post opinion piece.
In addition to convenience, voting by mail is also secure, Edelman and Glastris write.
“Because it relies on old-fashioned pen and paper, it can’t be hacked. While ballots are counted by machine, those machines don’t need to be connected to the internet, and a paper trail is there for a recount,” they write.
Like Colorado, Oregon and Washington also conduct all voting by mail.
The Postal Service works with election officials across the nation — including secretaries of state, state election directors and county leaders, as well as national organizations — to prepare for elections.
USPS also educates employees on procedures to accept, process and deliver Election Mail and Political Mail.
dems need to get all the hood rats registered to vote so we can vote out the republicans. go to the barber shops, crack houses, welfare offices, liquor stores…this is where they congregate.
Don’t forget college campuses, tech companies, or any other place free thinking happens
As a retired Mailhandler it was a part of my duties when I was a AFCS operator to shut down my machine at a certain time and take out any ballet that were in the trays or stackers. Those ballots were then taken to the box section where someone was waiting to receive the remainder of the trays of ballots, and the other ballots that we had retrieved. The State of Oregon requires that all ballots must be returned to the elections office by the time the elections office closes. Washington state allows one additional day for mailed ballots. I believe that Washington state’s policy is the best as it allows all ballots to be counted.
Fraud
the elephant plaza genius just lost 600 million last quarter………200 million a month, 50 million a week…..and they admitted they lost 2 Billion pieces of first-class mail during this period, which just happens to be their “busy season”(lost money their last 2 busy seasons-you should be worried)…………..so this story seems to me to be spitting into the wind. that’s all you can come up with? Jeff Bezos must be shaking in his boots. “turn out the lights….the parties over”. (Dandy Don Meredith) President Trump does not have to destroy the PO….all he has to do is leave IOD Brennen in place if that’s what he wants.
It also increases fraud