Find A Secure Box For Absentee Ballots
R2D2 Mailbox by djwudi
Silenced Majority reports that someone took their sealed ballet out of their mailbox, ripped it up, and left it on the sidewalk earlier today.
I received a knock at my door a few hours ago from a Good Samaritan, who had found my completed, sealed, and signed absentee ballot ripped up and trampled upon on the street late this afternoon. Evidently, some zealot thought my Obama/Biden yard sign gave him/her righteous permission to rummage my mailbox, and remove and tear up my vote in an apparent fit of rage. I would have never known, save for the good person who returned it.
Regardless of who you vote for (McCain, Obama, Nader, etc), I recommend finding a USPS blue box or finding an official absentee ballot drop off location (the list is included in the information with the ballot).
this seems highly improbable. i mean, a random stranger on the street sees the obama yard sign and then automatically thinks, "this joker must have his ballot in his mailbox right now"? then takes the ballot out and tears it up?
i have to call bullshit on this. especially that the original citation comes from someone posting a comment to horsesass.org with nothing to back it up. if there were some photographic evidence i might have an easier time believing it but this is way too farfetched.
besides, if this did happen, the guy should be calling the police. tampering with the mail is a federal offense and is investigated.
There’s not much the police will do. My folks had problems for years with kids stealing their mail from a row of mailboxes at the end of the street. They even caught the kids once. The police just told them to bug the post office into installing a set of locked boxes, which they eventually did. I wouldn’t call it bullshit, but perhaps they were a bit biased in their assumption that it was politically motivated. Regardless, my advice still stands: find a secure place for your ballot.