The Postal Service processes international election and political mail for eligible U.S. citizens throughout the world, including military and diplomatic members and their families. International election and political mail are typically processed at one of the five ISCs located in New York, Miami, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Most outbound and inbound international military and diplomatic election mail (about 80 percent) for the 2020 general election was processed through the Chicago ISC.

My wife’s Canadian. We were staying near Toronto during the time of the elections. I voted absentee and paid to track my ballot. I saw it go through Chicago. My mother and I had shipped each other packages back and fourth while we were there and they always went through New York.

I have no doubt my vote didn’t go to the candidate I indented it to go to. No way to find out though.

■ Cancelling and routing: Postal Service national leadership made an operational mandate on October 29, 2020, to utilize its Express Mail network to expeditiously process domestic and international ballots. This decision pushed additional volumes to the ISCs to take advantage of their Express Mail functionality — volumes that normally would have gone to another facility — and placed additional cost burdens on the ISCs. ISC management quickly implemented cancellation and routing procedures to handle these new volumes

Oh, this seems like a good idea! Reroute all the international ballots so they go through one facility. It saves money on hiring TRAITORS to toss Trump votes out if you only have to focus on one city's facilities.

Nothing bad can happen, righ?! We all know how un-corrupt Chicago is, right?! /s

Am I surprised that the US postal service was part of the election fraud? Ask me that question again when I stop laughing and crying.

Subsequent to our fieldwork in late March 2021, Postal Service staff at the Kalamazoo (MI) Processing and Distribution Center unexpectedly found a sack of international inbound ballots for the November 2020 general election on a pallet with empty sacks. The sack had an “election mail” tag and was unopened (the original banding seal was intact). Upon review, the sack contained 25 ballots destined for various election offices throughout the U.S. across 12 states. Though not material to the total number of international ballots processed, the Postal Service was unable to determine what caused the improper processing of these ballots. The last scan for these ballots showed arrival at the Dulles (VA) International Airport on October 15, 2020. The operational risks and vulnerabilities that led to this mishandling should be addressed as part of the after-action evaluation.

25 ballots don't get counted and they don't know why!?

WHY DON'T YOU KNOW!?

■ Identifying and culling: Staff were placed at various entry points to identify and cull ballots for expedited processing and enhanced tracking. This process often involved bypassing normal inbound mail processing automation and instead having employees visually identify and cull these ballots.

■ Documenting and tracking: Due to limitations regarding the Postal Service’s tracking of international election ballots (as noted in our September 2020 report), Chicago ISC employees developed an ad hoc system to document ballot acceptance and processing by taking a picture and/or photocopying each inbound ballot. While these actions required additional resources and time, staff performed these enhanced documenting and tracking steps in a manner that did not negatively impact the processing of these ballots.

You don't have to take a picture of the ballot if you TOSS IT OUT BEFORE IT GOES THROUGH THE NORMAL SYSTEM!

Good work pede. ?