This crap about not mailing

Look at the address on the mail-in ballot for town board.  It's a local box number at the local post office. 

Are you telling me our town clerk or town administrator doesn't have something worked out with the local postmaster where, as long as proper postage is affixed, they will be able to hand-cancel and directly place this envelope in post office Box 1200 today prior to 7:00 p.m. if ballots are received during working hours? 

So all this stuff about "Don't mail your ballot" which started circulating last Friday, is our town suddenly so populated in the winter, or our post office so rigid around election time, that any ballots submitted yesterday and today are going to be loaded in the truck down to Denver to then be rerouted back to Estes Park?  Many of you are nodding your heads without knowing the answer, but my answer is:  If our town is that incapable of working out an arrangement with the post master, or the post master is that incapable of working out an arrangement with the town, we need to stop paying so much for the "privilege" of mail-in ballots.  Our UOCAVA folks living west of us get the privilege of being able to submit their ballots after the initial results are made public, provided they have a 7:00 p.m. (or earlier) postmark mailed from their country/territory of residence.  Are you telling me those of us who actually live here don't enjoy the same rights?

'Nuff said.

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