Politics The Postal Service, Voting, and Covid

Another requirement of the Post Office that seems to be little known is that the Post Office must give Veteran job applicants five points on their test scores and if the Veteran is 100% disabled they must give that applicant rather than the five points, but now 10 points additional to their test scores. Time earned working for the government in other areas also counts toward their time at the Post Office. For example, if I applied for a job at the Post Office I would get ten additional points on my test score and already have two years of seniority before starting work.
I thought the Post Office got some additional funding from the government so that people in remote places in Alaska could get their mail at the same price as people mailing letter across town.

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Just looked it up and you are 100% correct, but you already know that, you bastard.
https://facts.usps.com/top-facts/

 

I kinda think the issue with mail-in voting is less the idea of voter fraud but more the idea that on election night we wont have any idea who actually won. It's going to be a crazy election month or so. I think voter fraud might happen. I think it's fair to say since Biden and Trump have already said the other one will cheat, they'll both be cheating or at least groups trying to get them elected will be cheating.
I am not against mail-in voting, though like I said earlier if there was a secure way to do electronic/online voting I'd like that better.
Everything about this election is shaping up to be a nightmare.

 

While you may be well and good correct on these notions, there's really a (bottom-line) reason the dems want the monies in there. You know it, and I know it and it's purely political. Otherwise, they'd be hammering this down our throats 3 years ago....or more. Right?

BTW, not to nit-pick your grammar, but it's "its" not "it's" in your usage above. I only say this because I believe you were messing with someone else's (@EL PRESIDENTE?) grammar awhile back. All in fun, mind you. All in fun.

 

Uh, 3 years ago we didn't have a pandemic that has already taken almost 170,000 lives in the USA. This is NOT normal times and it's ridiculous to put people in harms way when we have a perfectly adequate system to do mail in voting with the proper support. The only politicizing is being done by trump by continually crying about corruption in elections where he is the one that is corrupting the election. Many states have been using mail in voting with great success but trump only cares about his reelection, not the health and safety of the people and you know that, but refuse to acknowledge because of your love for a guy that wants to be a dictator.

 

Why is it so necessary to have instant results? Are instant results more important than the lives of people? We saw the explosion of cases when states started reopening and not following the guidelines as the handling of the pandemic in the USA has been atrocious. We have history of trump cheating. We have no history or evidence of Biden ever cheating so putting them in the same category is unfair.

 

Building a wall around the vote and putting minority voters in cages will not help Trump's losing cause...if you can't see he's completely polarized the GOP then you just want a deeper political division in power....it's time for the incompetence to stop...a vote for Trump is a vote for chaos and corruption..period. At this point anyone trying to prop up a GOP led government is embarrassing themself.....I find comfort in knowing it's almost over....Trump will be crushed in Nov

 

The road trip was fun while it lasted but I’m back!

 

You're a decent guy, but don't fall of your left ledge.

 

I mean... History shows that prolonged election results isn't a good thing, both in the US and most other places. The country is on the edge of chaos anyways. If you're one of those who believe that it's imperative to get Trump out, you should not want it to be dragged out, which increases the likelihood of letting it go to the house of representatives, because every contested state is going to turn into a legal battle.

 

Prolonged for a week? No problem. Less problem than people being denied right to vote or having to choose between voting and living. We're not talking about a 6 month delay whatever the god emperor spews on Twitter.

 

Really how long was it prolonged by 'hanging chads' in 2000? How did that work out for everyone... Sure it'll be much better this time around...

 

It's trump who is mucking it up by tossing out this bullshit conspiracy about how easy it is to rig the election with mail in voting. We have plenty of proof that mail in voting has been successful and rather than trying to sabotage the election this idiot should be doing everything possible to make the election as safe as possible. I don't see it being dragged out that long as that's just trump trying to create a controversy and even then, here's an article you should read. trump is essentially gone in January if no election results are done by the allotted date.

Andrew Moran, Professor of Politics and International Relations at London Metropolitan University told Express.co.uk: “On election day there are a variety of elections taking place – at the presidential, congressional, and state level.

“The question most people are asking is can the president cancel the presidential election. The short answer is no.

“Federal law makes it quite clear that the election should be held on the first Tuesday after the 1st Monday in November.

“This can only be changed through legislation that would have to be passed by Congress, signed by the president, and would then, most likely, be challenged in the courts.”

Donald Trump cannot cancel or postpone the November 3 general election by executive order, under the parameters of a national emergency or disaster declaration, or even if he declared martial law.

In an extreme scenario where the electoral college does not vote, Mr Trump’s term would still expire at midday on January 20, 2021.

This means control of the presidency would then go down the line of succession.

Unless Mr Trump is re-elected, there will be a new head of state next year.

 

and that election was completed and we did get results. Are you for or against mail in ballots (at least for this year due to the covid virus)? and why?

 

You mean the supreme court had to get involved, and it was maybe the single most divisive event in US Politics over the last 40ish years (there are maybe a handful of others but it's up there). Yes, that.
I think where we're at now is in large part because of that.
I already said how I felt about mail-in votes. I'm ok with them in general, I'm not sure what to make of the voter-fraud through mail-in voting stuff because even researching it this morning for a while before work, it seems to be completely partisan as to if it's an issue or not. Just the news, fox, Breitbart, and a few other right-leaning sites tend to think it's an issue, and CNN, Vox, Axios, etc all seem to say it's not and it's just a big lie. Even many of the "fact-checking" sites are fairly partisan at this point...
I would prefer an electronic/online voting system.

 

With Russian hacking capabilities it seems that would be more susceptible to hacking and voter fraud. trump (and the republicans) have been much more active in trying to suppres voting as they know it would benefit trump better, espially when much of it is targeted in minority communities. Notice how you seldom hear trump or republicans promote all to get out and vote where as you often hear the democrats push for more voters.

 

Well, I wasn't advocating pushing out an open-source app under MIT's license and putting it on a public server and publishing the IP/MAC Address on the front page of every major website with a tutorial on how to vote 100 times...
You'll never get a system that is perfectly hack-free or secure, but to the best of their ability, I'd prefer an electronic system to the mail-in. Also not saying they have a viable way forward with that for this election.