Voters unable to make it to the polls on Election Day are allowed in most states to mail in their ballots. But an Oct. 27 Instagram video shows a man in his car claiming that the U.S. Postal Service is a “de facto federal corporation” that may destroy mail-in ballots at will.
“If you use the United States Postal Service certified mail or just regular mail… they can do anything they want with those ballots," says the man in the video. "They can take a box of those ballots, they can take a crate of those ballots… and leave them there, they could set them on fire, they can throw them in the Dumpster."
The man claims the safest way to mail in a ballot is through registered mail at the post office, which he says is a “de jure postal service" separate from the Postal Service.
"Registered mail is a bond, okay? It becomes a court of record," he says. "No one can scam that. If they do, they’re looking at serious jail time."
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