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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Is the USPS actually withholding them or are they just lost in the ether? Or is it a situation where USPS has possession of them but hasn't delivered them to the vote counters?
If it's the latter case, I'm surprised they can so precisely provide numbers of how many they have. Just... deliver them.
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My understanding: Because of the way that the USPS handles ballots, they get scanned when they enter the USPS system. So these are 300,000 or so ballots that have been scanned as received by USPS, but have not been delivered, and unusually clustered around Democratic strongholds in swing states. The normal process is for the USPS to do sweeps to locate such ballots in their system, but they've pushed back on doing those sweeps the past week.
For states that require votes to be received by election day, there's no recourse at this point. But in some states, votes can be received for several more days (including North Carolina, where they can be received up until the 12th), as long as they're postmarked by election day. So we could have a scenario where the fate of the presidency (or the senate) hangs on whether USPS can avoid finding these ballots.