“lost mail” +usps +statistics

Occasionally my statistics page for the No Vote By Mail Project’s Website gives me an interesting bit of info. But in this case the search thread ultimately won’t take you very far.

Dear Yahoo!:

What percentage of mail is lost by the USPS?

Mike
Chicago, Illinois

Dear Mike:

You’d have better luck finding Dick Cheney’s social security number. Even though the [...]

Montana, Ready or Not, Voting-By Mail

This editorial claims Montana is ready to vote entirely by mail, well only if they want more of this, I guess:
http://novbm.wordpress.com/2006/11/16/many-races-around-the-country-still-too-close-to-call/
In the State of Montana, a local race with just under 4000 votes ended in a tie today. 10 days after the election was held.
Vote by mail and it can take 2 weeks to count [...]

100% Forced Vote-By Mail Voting Systems

Another comon term, proposed and used mostly by election integrity activists, is Forced Mail Voting. This term denotes the intention of forcing 100% of the voters to vote-by mail in a VBM election system. Poll voters are not allowed to continue voting at the polls, rather they are forced to switch to mail ballots, for some [...]

100% Vote-By Mail more problematic than absentee systems

Absentee systems are limited in nature. Those that need ballots for a reason remotely, get the ballot absentee. This system is easier to deal with, in short, because it is a smaller system. Turn absentee voting into liberalized, no-excuse, Vote-by Mail voting and the problems are amplified.
Therefore Vote-by Mail inherently has more problems than limited [...]

Vote By Mail or Absentee Ballots?

There’s an ongoing problem with election integrity conversations. Vote By Mail is a term used to describe a system in which EVERYONE votes by mail, however, absentee ballots is the term used to denote when someone specifically needs to apply for an absentee ballot while opting not to vote at the polls.
The two terms do not mean [...]

921 Ballots Not Counted In Ohio

From Toledo, Ohio, election officials are “heartsick”:
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080511/NEWS33/805110314
Lucas County elections officials urged voters before the March 4 primary election to vote by absentee ballot to lessen waits at the polls on election day, but The Blade has learned that hundreds of those ballots were not counted because of mistakes made by voters and because the elections [...]

An Interesting Voting Integrity Editorial

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0805/S00179.htm

Flint, Michigan, Approves No Excuse Absentees

Michael Moore, “Call your film crew!” Flint, Michigan, has approved “no-reason absentee voting,” and some members of the Michigan legislature are pushing  No Excuse Absentee voting as well: 
http://www.mlive.com/news/flintjournal/index.ssf?/base/news-50/121069740631100.xml&coll=5
No-reason absentee voting also has been introduced to Michigan legislators as Senate Bill 12, along with Senate Bills 13 and 10, that would allow for same-day registration and require that [...]

Vote by Mail systems use proprietary voting machines

Vote-by mail proponents continually site the idea that vote-by mail systems cure the “Touchscreen problem.” Well that’s just a blatant falsehood. Vote-by mail systems typically use optical scan machines that utilize the very same software base from companies like Diebold, Sequioa, ES & S. The Diebold Optical Scanners that were famously hacked for the HBO [...]

Oregon Voters Switch Parties, Might Get Two Ballots

Some speculate this will hurt Obama… a recent proponent of Vote-By Mail.