What a mess this would be... //

One local news station was curious, so they decided to try an experiment to see what would happen if they did “mail in voting,” as CBS’s Tony Dukopil explains. They set up a P.0. Box to be their receiver and then went around to various locations all around Philadelphia and mailed 100 letters the size of a ballot and the same class mail to the P.O. Box. They then did it again a couple of days later with a second batch. All told, they sent themselves 200 ‘ballots.’

Needless to say, there were issues, as they found out.

First, the Post Office had trouble even finding them. Then when he finally got what they had, he found that 21% of the votes hadn’t materialized after 4 days and from the batch that they mailed the week before, 3 were still missing. So that’s 3% of that batch who were just disenfranchised. As they note, in a close election, 3% can turn the tide of an election.