From: Tom Heller
Columbus
Count me as a skeptic on our nation’s ability to conduct mail-in voting this fall.
Reliance on an army of nameless, faceless postal workers to swiftly and securely convey the votes of over 120 million U.S. citizens to local election officers strikes me as entirely foolhardy. Instead, the U.S. Postal Service seems to perform much better at losing multiple billions of dollars annually.
My experience this past year may be instructive.
I’ve had a legal notice not delivered. A First Class Mail package took eight days to reach me from an office less than three blocks away. I never received final notification of a court decision.
A wedding announcement from a niece has never arrived, but I’m told it’s been sent twice. A three-day Priority Mail package took seven days to be delivered. I’m still waiting on another.
(So far, there’s been no disruption in my water bill, though.)
Maybe these are just one-in-a-million irregularities. But their number keeps mounting. It’s getting worse, not better.
Oh, I should add that two of those instances involve the county clerk’s office – the office we citizens look to for the security of our elections.
I have no confidence in vote-by-mail. There’s just too many extra "hands" involved behind the scenes.
