PolitiFact - No, Postal Service workers cannot ‘do anything they want’ to mail-in ballots

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PolitiFact - No, Postal Service workers cannot ‘do anything they want’ to mail-in ballots
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An Instagram video makes the unfounded claim that U.S. Postal Service employees can destroy mail-in ballots and “won't get in any trouble.” That’s inaccurate. Vote-by-mail is a secure way to cast a ballot.

Oct. 27 video

"If you use the United States Postal Service certified mail or registered mail, they can do anything they want with those ballots," he said."They can take a box of those ballots, a crate of those ballots … leave them there, they could set them on fire, they can throw them in the dumpster."

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