The USPS tries to stamp out allegations by City Councilors Michael Flaherty and Ed Flynn.
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By Ari O
Mon, 11/01/2021 - 9:15am
Let me put on my surprised face.
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By Bigbaddogg
Mon, 11/01/2021 - 9:42am
So the guy did dump the ballots but thankfully they were recovered?
No, but ...
By adamg
Mon, 11/01/2021 - 9:48am
If you read the somewhat confused USPS statement, it sound like somebody might have dumped out some campaign mailers, but NOT ballots. Still not good, but not quite the same.
People throw out campaign mailers when they receive them
By roadman
Mon, 11/01/2021 - 10:44am
So the postal worker just saved them the bother.
For clarity
By brianjdamico
Mon, 11/01/2021 - 9:36am
From the linked story:
Attributed to USPS spokesperson Steve Doherty
I figured it was worth highlighting that there was election-related mail that was mishandled, but not actual "election mail" which would include ballots. So the allegations of ballots being mishandled is hopefully more of a mistaken detail rather than an outright fabrication.
Missing ballots
By Allstonian
Mon, 11/01/2021 - 10:42am
Okay, when I first saw this story yesterday I wondered whether this was the real complaint, and I suspect it is a City of Boston problem rather than a USPS problem. We got forms back in August or so to request mail-in ballots, completed and returned them in plenty of time for the primary, and never got ballots for either the primary or the final election.
Did you try looking your info up
By ST
Mon, 11/01/2021 - 1:25pm
On the Massachusetts “Track My Ballot” site? https://www.sec.state.ma.us/wheredoivotema/track/t... That should indicate whether they received your original ballot request, and whether there might have been a processing issue with it. My mother-in-law was not getting her ballots last year because her town (not Boston) hadn’t correctly processed her voter registration address change within town, and the Track My Ballot site listed her request with some useful failure info so at least we knew it was a town issue and not a USPS issue.
Track My Ballot
By Allstonian
Mon, 11/01/2021 - 5:07pm
I did. My primary vote was accepted but there's nothing about my request to vote by mail. I haven't changed address or had any other changes in my registration, either.
Oh, horror. BTPIE PAC mailer
By Notfromboston
Mon, 11/01/2021 - 11:04am
Oh, horror. BTPIE PAC mailer was not delivered as indented. Call the feds!
I hear
By Wiffleball
Mon, 11/01/2021 - 11:14am
that's a hanging indent offense.
lots of details still missing
By anony-mouse
Mon, 11/01/2021 - 1:13pm
Which candidate's (or candidates') mailers were involved?
What was the mail carriers motivation?
Who, exactly, started the seemingly inaccurate (and semi libelous ?) story that it was ballots? And will they apologize?
I hope no one is going to
By anon
Mon, 11/01/2021 - 5:04pm
I hope no one is going to suggest that Michael Flaherty and Ed Flynn would speak anything other than the truth and nothing but the truth.
RW spin
By anon
Mon, 11/01/2021 - 9:54pm
to scare the old timers in Southie to vote for Anissa - just enough truth to defend saying it, close enough to the election that the voters might not see the explanation of what really happened. they campaign on fear (caravans of ISIS heading for the border, Ebola going to kill us all).
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