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This is a critical threat to democracy given the circumstances of the upcoming election.

So get the word out that mail in ballots can be dropped off in person ahead of time.

This is likely the sensible thing to do within a few weeks of the election anyway.

Even without the problems at the post office, dropping it off directly really reduces the chances of it getting lost.

Yes. And the harder problem (if this weren’t hard enough) is getting the ballots delivered to voters in the first place.

Or stolen or discarded. To vote by mail is to trust the letter carriers, a union that has typically heavily favored one party over the other. The solution is to open more voting locations - which is a state responsibility, not to trust it to some third party.

That makes no sense. The people at the usps are federal employees (aka not a third party) and know the ramifications for tampering with the mail. I trust them to handle people’s votes over a volunteer everyday of the week. Opening more voting locations is a state responsibility, but when one party has a history of shirking their responsibilities and disenfranchising minorities then states ran by that party are hard to trust.

That's a feature, not a bug. For those currently in charge at least.

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