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Originally Posted by BarryD
Please get your facts straight before making claims.
Some people still receive their benefits the old fashioned way, thanks to mail delivery.
Nearly 550,000 people are receiving paper Social Security checks in August, according to Social Security Administration data. That number goes up to about 848,000 if you include Supplemental Security Income.
But the vast majority — over 63 million — access their benefits via direct deposit.
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This makes an interesting point about voting by mail. Over the years we have had a small minority of people casting absentee votes. Those that were out of the country at the time or incapacitated and couldn't get to the polls. USPS could easily handle this small number of ballots.
But when it is being suggested that ballots are mailed to every voter in the country and they are all being encouraged to vote by mail, the sheer volume of those ballots is going to create a problem.
Think about this. What if next month, the post office was required to handle all 63 million Social Security checks. How many problems do you think there would be? Twice that number of people are expected to vote in the presidential election.
I realize that we have the electoral college but the popular vote is often won by 2% or less. Would you think that less than 2% of the votes might get lost or destroyed.
I'm not even talking about voter fraud, which may also be increased by a system of mail in votes, but just a simple error rate by and organization that is already stressed.
The more ballots that are mailed the more chances of there being errors. Heck, we have problems counting the votes that are cast in person. Mail in voting will only make that much worse.