1200 absentee ballots missing in rural Missouri

[xmas74]

I don't know if anyone mentioned this here but it happened about an half hour from me. People are now afraid to use absentee.
https://abc17news.com/politics/your-voice-your-vote/2020/09/30/1200-pettis-county-absentee-ballots-lost-in-the-mail/

[Thekaspervote]

1. This is your friendly daily reminder...DO NOT trust your ballot to the mail...PLEASE

[TheBlackAdder]

6. Yep. Get it in the mail. Take it to a county office or drop box.

[exboyfil]

9. By traveling 100 miles

along with the 2 million others voting in your county in Texas.

[TheBlackAdder]

13. Oh, man. You're in one of those Non-Democracy states.

[beachbumbob]

2. rural Missouri is trump heartland. NICE

good job trump!!

[jorgevlorgan]

12. Actually that's kind of changed nowadays.

I would wager that more of those ballots than not were probably for Biden.

[pwb]

3. It will show up if it was mailed.

Private contractors move the mail on the road I would look there.

[TheBlackAdder]

4. USPS Informed Delivery -- You get to see images of every piece of mail you should be receiving.

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Report missing mail right away.

I used their web portal, when I saw a piece missing, and the mailman came back the next day and said the postmaster came down on him. It was dropped off a couple of houses over. I felt bad and will intercept him in the future before officially reporting it missing.

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[moondust]

5. False flag?

Trumpanzees in safe districts providing propaganda ammunition for Dear Leader's vote suppression bazooka?

[MyOwnPeace]

7. 'Ya know - gotta' say I wouldn't even be surprised!!!!

At this point there is NOTHING they would do that would surprise me!

[xmas74]

14. Idk

The state GOP is having tantrums about mail in. They suddenly are very against it while our Dem candidate for SoS if elected wants to enact automatic voter registration and wants to move to a mail in ballot statewide with no restrictions.

[stopdiggin]

8. Hmmm. Would there be an explanation from USPS

forthcoming? It's pretty obvious there has to be more to this story. Are there no news organizations or reporters in that part of the country?

edit: ballots found (St. Louis) last week
https://ksisradio.com/missing-pettis-county-ballots-found-in-st-louis/

[LaMouffette]

10. I read the article, and I think these were ballots on their way TO voters, and not

completed ballots that were on their way back FROM voters and en route to the election board.

Some people knew they were supposed to be receiving a ballot in the mail. When it didn't show up, they called and complained. They are supposed to be getting another ballot mailed out to them.

This makes me wonder if this is part of a two-pronged attack on voting by mail: not only make ballots disappear after voters have filled them out and mailed them in, but ALSO prevent voters from receiving a ballot in time to fill it out.

[bluestarone]

11. SO?

When do they get postmarked? 2days AFTER they reach the distribution center? I wonder. (i'm talking about when they are mailed back.)