USPS Postmark Rules Changing for Mail-in-Ballots

@#34 ... Drop boxes are the least of the problems I'm concerned with. ...

Yet, here in Connecticut, there was a significant issue with drop-boxes.

Bridgeport election probe expands; four more operatives charged (July 2025)
ctmirror.org

... The state criminal investigation involving election crimes in Bridgeport grew Wednesday with the arrests of four more people, nearly two years after a judge tossed out the results of the city's 2023 Democratic mayoral primary because of widespread allegations of absentee ballot fraud.

Robert Anderson, Maria Hernandez, Elsie Mercado and Silvia Ramos turned themselves in Wednesday at the Connecticut State Police barracks in Bridgeport.

They were charged with illegally taking possession of voters' absentee ballots during the primary between Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim and his Democratic challenger John Gomes. ...

There is even video (widely shown on CT TV news) of ballots being stuffed.

4 charged with absentee ballot misconduct in 2019 Bridgeport election (June 2024)
www.ctpublic.org

... Four campaign workers are facing charges of misuse of absentee ballots in connection with Bridgeport's 2019 mayoral primary election, including a high-ranking member of the city's Democratic Town Committee.

Chief State's Attorney Patrick J. Griffin announced Tuesday that inspectors from his office arrested the four on charges of unlawful possession of absentee ballots and other election-related criminal offenses.

Those charged include Wanda Geter-Pataky, the vice chairwoman of the Bridgeport Democratic Town Committee, and Alfredo Castillo, a member of Bridgeport's city council, along with campaign workers Josephine Edmonds and Nilsa Heredia, according to Griffin's office.

"Integrity of our voting process is vital to our democracy," Griffin said in a written statement. "I appreciate the attention and time the Statewide Prosecution Bureau put into these investigations. I hope these prosecutions will send a message that deters tampering with election results in the future in Connecticut."

The four defendants are scheduled to appear in Bridgeport Superior Court on June 24. A lawyer representing Geter-Pataky did not immediately respond to requests for comment. It was not immediately clear whether the other defendants had hired legal representatives.

News of the arrests comes more than four years after Bridgeport's closely-contested 2019 mayoral race, in which incumbent Mayor Joe Ganim was reelected to another term.

However, allegations of absentee misconduct prompted an investigation by the State Elections Enforcement Commission, which referred the case to the state's top prosecutors after conducting a probe that lasted more than three years.

In the interim, allegations of election misconduct surfaced again in Bridgeport, this time garnering national attention. A judge ordered the city to redo its 2024 mayoral election after a video surfaced that appeared to show Geter-Pataky stuffing papers into a ballot drop box.

An investigation into the video is still underway. The charges announced Tuesday pertain only to the race four years earlier. ...

fwiw, Bridgeport politics are known here in CT to be, ummm, I'll be kind, different from the rest of the state.

Snoofy,

"let alone us"

Speak for yourself.

It's just you.

I taught college level for years part-time in evenings and some days.

I'm pretty good at explaining things simply.

I had all sorts of sorts of students.

If I had you as a student I'd think you're belligerent and dense.

Thank goodness you're not.

@#36 ... ... You're just against mail in voting because the more people voting the less likelihood Republicans win their campaigns. That's all there is to it. ...

Georgia's GOP House Speaker says vote-by-mail system would be 'devastating to Republicans' (April 2020)
thehill.com

..."... a multitude of reasons why vote by mail in my view is not acceptable," [Georgia state House Speaker David] Ralston went on, before adding "the president said it best, this will be extremely devastating to Republicans and conservatives in Georgia." ...

"The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you ever agreed to, you would never have a Republican elected in this country again," [fmr Pres] Trump said...

Lamp,

Since you want to discuss Utah, I'd trust their election results before any Democrat controlled state.

@#44 ... I'd trust their election results before any Democrat controlled state. ...

... stated with no evidence of why that opinion is held.

So, let me ask, why?

I'm pretty good at explaining things simply.
#42 | Posted by BillJohnson

Not this thing.

"If I had you as a student I'd think you're belligerent and dense."

Funny,that's how you come off not being able articulate something you're so confident of.

Especially a thing you don't even have examples of it ever happening!

If you werey professor, I'd call you a kook.

Don't procastinate and don't be a whining baby over every little thing. The USPS has to cut costs.

Lamp,

Think about this.

What happens if an aircraft carrying hundreds of thousands of uncounted mail-in ballots crashes two weeks before Election Day?

The election cannot be delayed under the Constitution. There's no clear legal way to prove which ballots were lost.

Audits and recounts don't help, because you can't recount ballots that never arrive.

That's the concern. It's not one state or another.

It's the systemic risk created when elections depend on mass pre-election ballot distribution that cannot be paused or repaired in time if something goes wrong.

But you're the eternal optimist and have decided this could never happen.

I see things differently and believe we need to be prepared for worst case scenarios.

Think about this.
What happens if an aircraft carrying hundreds of thousands of uncounted mail-in ballots crashes two weeks before Election Day?
The election cannot be delayed under the Constitution. There's no clear legal way to prove which ballots were lost.
Audits and recounts don't help, because you can't recount ballots that never arrive.
That's the concern. It's not one state or another.
It's the systemic risk created when elections depend on mass pre-election ballot distribution that cannot be paused or repaired in time if something goes wrong.
But you're the eternal optimist and have decided this could never happen.
I see things differently and believe we need to be prepared for worst case scenarios.

Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-01-02 08:18 PM | Reply

@#48 ... What happens if an aircraft carrying hundreds of thousands of uncounted mail-in ballots crashes two weeks before Election Day? ...

So, tell me, what does happen?

Also please give evidence of the likelihood of that happening and justification of why your alias' imagined outcome might happen.

That aside?

Why would mail-in ballots even be on a plane?

Ballots re usually town-level things, within a single state.

From what I've seen of USPS tracking of my mailings, they all seem to be land-based.

So, I have to ask again, why is mail-in voting so bad?

At this point, all your alias seems to be doing is making up stuff.

OK, so I will admit, your current alias has a good imagination.

But, getting back to reality, what is the issue with mail-in voting?

What happens if an aircraft carrying hundreds of thousands of uncounted mail-in ballots crashes two weeks before Election Day?

Can you describe where these ballots were being shipped, from where, and why?

Think about this:
Ballots aren't carried by aircraft.
Also, you don't think they think of things like that?

Come on, man.
This is just a hangup you have, because you consume too much right wing propaganda.
That's how crazy reels you in. They keep running crazy idea after crazy idea past you, until you take the bait.

You took the bait.
You think it was your idea to take the bait.
You don't understand that you are being groomed.

@#48 ... It's the systemic risk created when elections depend on mass pre-election ballot distribution that cannot be paused or repaired in time if something goes wrong. ...

Utah?

... I see things differently ...

I'll leave that one alone ...

"It's the systemic risk created when elections depend on mass pre-election ballot distribution"

Every election depends on that.

"Why would mail-in ballots even be on a plane?"

Ballots on a MOTHER FUCKIN plane.
And there ain't a god damn thing you can do about it.
--Samuel L BillJohnson

@#52 ... This is just a hangup you have, because you consume too much right wing propaganda. ...

Like the GOP comments quoted in #43?

- we need to be prepared for worst case scenarios.

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! OR the Traitor Trump Presidency!

The latter prolly being by far the worst case scenario for America.

First they came for the Immigrants and the Trans and the Muslims... and then the Voters!

Redial,

Where is immaterial.

They took off from there to arrive here to be counted.

They didn't arrive.

What does it matter where they were from?

I'm done. This thread is scrapping the bottom.

Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-01-02 08:37 PM | Reply

Don't go now we're just getting started.

Absurdity fills the space between billjohnson's ears.

What does it matter where they were from?

If they came from overseas you are never going to stop that process.

If they came from the same county, they were never on a plane.

I'm done.

CYA, Forrest.

Redial,

"If they came from overseas you are never going to stop that process."

Those would likely be absentee ballots. Not much can do about that.

Redial,

I think I explained my concern being more and more states going this route.

You're choosing to not see my point.

Redial,

Scrapping the bottom even worse.

No point in taking anyone's questions serious now.

Just wanting to find exceptions and nitpic instead of seeing my point that is a legitimate question.
.

instead of seeing my point that is a legitimate question.

It's not. They don't air freight ballots within counties. Especially not hundreds of thousands of them. Why would they?

@#58 ... They took off from there to arrive here to be counted.

They didn't arrive. ...

Again, another assertion by your alias with no evidence.

@#59 ... This thread is scrapping the bottom. ...

Why?

My view is that your alias has endeavored to drag this thread down with unsubstianted assertions.

So is your alias' comment I quoted above more of a victory lap?

@#63 ... Those would likely be absentee ballots. Not much can do about that. ...

Absentee ballots that were mailed in from overseas, usually from our Service Members.

So, does your alias also want to deny their right to vote?

@#64 ... I think I explained my concern being more and more states going this route. ...

No, your alias has expressed an unsubstantiated made-up concern.

Explaining such a concern requires a rational presentation.

I've not yet seen any manner of a rational presentation here your alias' comments.

@#64 ... You're choosing to not see my point. ...

There is a difference between "choosing not to see" and "disagreeing with something that looks irrational."

@#65 ... instead of seeing my point that is a legitimate question ...

Now posing it as a question instead of a scenario that has occurred, or is likely to occur?

Why the retreat from your alias' apparent earlier opinions?

Why the retreat from your alias' apparent earlier opinions?

Keep prodding... the trans deflection can't be far away...

@#73 ... Keep prodding... the trans deflection can't be far away... ...

To be honest, I'm working on a Bourne shell script that calculates the sunrise and sunset times for my location. (I need that to control the lights here.)

I found a python script on wikipedia that seems to work, and am integrating that into my needs.

In order to accomplish that, I need to run commands in the script like ...

...
SunRiseUTCSecs=$( bc -e "${SunRiseUTCTmp} / 1" -e quit )
SunRise=$( date -j -r ${SunRiseUTCSecs} +%H:%M )
...

Yeah, fun. :)

Some are afraid to admit to themselves they are just wrong. They might understand very well what I'm saying and they don't like it because it makes sense.

After all these years Bill states a truth.

There are professionals who study voter fraud and anomalies, down to the granular level. Those professionals can't find what Bill opines yet he soldiers on. Oblivious to the meekest of scholarship.

www.google.com

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