Quote Originally Posted by Druff
I didn't know this, but it's hard to believe every precinct in the country is doing this ordering. It would actually be fairly cumbersome to do it this way. I'm not saying you're lying (I believe your description of how it's done in Boston), but that this isn't necessarily the standard everywhere.
It's not that hard, it's done every day by the US mail already. Every piece of mail is already mechanically read and encoded by the USPS, it's not like we have to do it on the day of the election, save a few states that love drama and attention and lawsuits I guess. Holding and delivering mail at your day of choice is already a free USPS service, and pre-printed election envelopes make sorting as easy as the sorter can make it.

It was a fun day working my local polling location. 6AM-almost 9PM, from the cop delivering the box of ballots until it was locked and back in his truck on the way to city hall, an hour lunch in the middle there. I'll tell a few dumb stories tomorrow, but I know for me, local elections are a far more palatable thing for me to be involved in than local politics.