• PlasticExistence@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Assuming someone or some group of people are actually putting these in mailboxes to try to trick people, this is multiple federal felonies. It’s election fraud, and it’s a felony to tamper with a mailbox, mail fraud, I would guess conspiracy to commit fraud, and perhaps more.

    If true, I sincerely hope someone’s doorbell camera catches them in the act.

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      3 hours ago

      They could just be posting about it on social media? I feel like even that would be enough to dissuade some people to put their ballot in the mail.

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      8 hours ago

      Depends. I feel like the fact that the packaging doesn’t explicitly state anything about using it for election mail is their loophole to say they never intended to trick anyone.

      It’s so thinly-veiled it’s disgusting…but the courts are still stacked by Trump appointees who will let his supporters get away with nearly anything.