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One of those crap jobs I had when I was young was a temp worker in a lock box that processed political contributions (early 90's). There would be trays of mail

One of those crap jobs I had when I was young was a temp worker in a lock box that processed political contributions (early 90's). There would be trays of mail coming in from various campaigns, for various orgs (3 or 4, both Democratic and Repubican). Surveys were big -- and people would write all over them. But the first thing that happened was the money was pulled out and deposited. The bundles of surveys might have been looked at. It was depressing as hell. You could tell people were looking for someone to listen. And as far as I know, they only reached someone doing a buck over minimum wage, who had to process x hundred envelopes per hour. Now, of course, it's been streamlined -- there aren't checks anymore so it's all that much faster for the more efficient clearing of the marks money.

thunky 2y ago
This reminds me of how absentee voting works. For example, in 2020 New York state threw 3.62% of absentee ballots in the trash. https://elections-blog.mit.edu/articles/deep-dive-absentee-ballot-rejection-2020-general-election https://elections-blog.mit.edu/articles/deep-dive-absentee-b... Some legitimately discarded I'm sure, but some were thrown out because a human thought the signature was off. And who knows if they got it right: strictly scrutinized the ballots that were returned, and often did not even notify absentee voters that their ballot was rejected because of an administrative deficiency Plus this type of thing happens all the time (happened to me this year in a different state): https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/03/21/incorrect-absentee-ballots-sent-to-165-voters-in-milwaukee/73053901007/ https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/...