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by googthrowaway42 2135 days ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/07/new-yor...

https://wtop.com/virginia/2020/08/unsolicited-absentee-appli...
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hairofadog 2135 days ago
Neither of those articles mentions fraud at all. In fact, they strive to point out the problem of under funded postal and electoral systems...
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googthrowaway42 2135 days ago
I don't see where the postal system is the problem in these scenarios. USPS does not print or count ballots

> “We are aware that some of the mailers may have directed the return envelopes to the wrong election offices.”

Nothing is fraud if you're naive/charitable enough in how you interpret things.

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hairofadog 2135 days ago
From the article that you posted:

> Ballot-printing firms couldn’t keep up with demand, and the already rickety U.S. Postal Service didn’t move the ballots to and from voters quickly enough.

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Redoubts 2134 days ago
> I don't see where the postal system is the problem in these scenarios.

>> Patel said his campaign is looking at thousands of other votes that seem to be missing postmarks entirely—a post-office error

Read your own link.

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Buttons840 2135 days ago
Even if the claim is true, does allowing the post office to half-fail at such a critical time help matters in any way?
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Buttons840 2134 days ago
A judge has asked Trump's legal team to submit evidence of mail in voter fraud.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-13/trump-app...

It will be interesting to see what they submit.

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