Ballot drop boxes are latest battleground in U.S. election fight

[JacksinPA]

Ballot drop boxes are latest battleground in U.S. election fight - Reuters

(Reuters) - Welcome to the latest partisan flash point in the U.S. presidential election: the ballot drop box.

As U.S. election officials gird for a dramatic expansion of mail voting in the Nov. 3 election, Democrats across the country are promoting drop boxes as a convenient and reliable option for voters who don’t want to entrust their ballots to the U.S. Postal Service.

President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, meanwhile, has sued to prevent their use in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state, alleging that the receptacles could enable voting fraud.

Republican officials in other states have prevented their use. Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett told a U.S. Senate committee in July that drop boxes could enable people to violate a state law against collecting ballots.

In Missouri, Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft decided not to distribute 80 drop boxes he had purchased because state law requires those ballots to be returned by mail.

“We didn’t want to cause confusion with voters,” spokeswoman Maura Browning said.

Drop boxes have taken on new urgency after cost-cutting measures at the U.S. Postal Service slowed mail delivery nationwide and Trump has repeatedly attacked the legitimacy of mail ballots. Polls show the Republican president trailing Democratic challenger Joe Biden in a race that some experts say could see half of all votes cast absentee.

Some say the drop box battle is a lot of fuss over a piece of civic furniture — typically a heavily constructed metal box placed in a public location, often monitored by video.
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If we can't trust Trump's USPS, why not establish drop boxes as a safe alternative?

 

[Ikari]

It's so obvious what they're trying to do. "We didn't want to cause confusion"....please. Dumbasses. CO uses secure drop boxes for all our elections, they're great. Election officials collect the ballots and they're taken off to be counted. Trump and his Swamp tried to undercut the USPS so that they can launch their attacks on mail-in voting. Secure Drop Boxes help to circumvent the USPS by giving people secure places to drop off their ballots without mailing them in. So obviously, the GOP in their voter suppression tactics do not want that, so now they're launching a new war on Drop Boxes to supplement their War on Mail-In Voting.

 

[CaughtInThe]

Republicans: Making it harder to vote for decades.





We all know why.

 

[Guyzilla]

It's so obvious what they're trying to do. "We didn't want to cause confusion"....please. Dumbasses. CO uses secure drop boxes for all our elections, they're great. Election officials collect the ballots and they're taken off to be counted. Trump and his Swamp tried to undercut the USPS so that they can launch their attacks on mail-in voting. Secure Drop Boxes help to circumvent the USPS by giving people secure places to drop off their ballots without mailing them in. So obviously, the GOP in their voter suppression tactics do not want that, so now they're launching a new war on Drop Boxes to supplement their War on Mail-In Voting.

I KNEW that dropboxes were going to be a target. Trump always starts running flags up poles, and see which are saluted. He said, that dropboxes are where the ballot harvesting will occur.
Yes, so they are limiting the amount of in person polls, making finding a dropbox diffficult, have all absentees get notary. Throw out all ballots if not postmarked by date. Throwing out ballots if counting doesnt wrap up to the satisfaction of the emperor.

Trump is trying out all kinds of harrassment, misinformation and intimidation.