Will foreign meddlers use snail mail?

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  1. Robert Urbanek

    Robert Urbanek Active Member

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    Given the efforts to curb Russian and other nation’s use of election misinformation on social media, will the foreign meddlers turn to the U.S. postal service to deliver campaign-related material? Admittedly, given the problems with the postal service, this may seem a counterintuitive idea.

    One could see, for example, Russians flooding the mail service with official-looking documents advising people to show up to the wrong addresses to vote. Or foreign agencies may create and mail out “newspapers,” presumably exempt from election funding laws, whose pages are dominated by political hit pieces.
     
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    This already being done online by foreign influencers. I couldn’t see them looking to mail as a better option.
     
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    One could theoretically mail a few million completely official looking ballots out with incorrect return addresses on them and screw the whole election.
     
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    Spim Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I'm still trying to figure out what is actually wrong with mail delivery, it is literally working the same way for me today that it did 6 month, 6 years. Or 16 years ago.

    I drop it in the box . Stuff shows up as planned a day or two later.... and I send out & receive quite a bit of stuff.

    This whole thing seems like they are manufacturing a crisis.
     
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