I am worried what's going to happen with big vote-by-mail election. How much chaos will ensue with an overwhelmed USPS?
We've already seen elections with ballot invalidation rates of 25% in NYC with some of the primaries. A lot had to do with postmark dates and signatures.
In my county (in California) there are dedicated ballot boxes that are not serviced by the post office. The ballots are collected from the boxes by county election officials. Is this not a thing in other states?
Washington State is entirely vote-by-mail, and we have the option of returning to drop boxes located at libraries or city halls and well as mailing them in.
My anecdotal observation is that the majority of people use the drop boxes, but that was also pre-pandemic.
I'm more thinking of states that have never voted by mail. We don't understand the protocol, and there's unlikely to be any feedback whether our vote counted. Likely to be many administrative snafus
We've already seen elections with ballot invalidation rates of 25% in NYC with some of the primaries. A lot had to do with postmark dates and signatures.