Via BoingBoing, why is the Indiana Election Commission putting cubes of styrofoam in their mailers?
The Styrofoam cube enclosed in this envelope is being included by the sender to meet a United States Postal Service regulation. This regulation requires a first class letter or flat using the Delivery or Signature Confirmation service to become a parcel and that it “is in a box or, if not in a box, is more than 3/4 of an inch thick at its thickest point.” The cube has no other purpose and may be disposed of upon opening this correspondence.
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October 24, 2011 at 11:37 am
Donald A. Coffin
But what the Indiana Election Commission is *doing* is removing from the voter rolls anyone to whom such a “package” is sent who refuses to sign for it. So they put the cube in to make it a package for which a signature is required, but their *purpose* is to purge the voter rolls.
I might add that they know that refusals to sign do not necessarily mean that the addressee is no longer at that address…and that African-Americans and other minority groups are more likely to refuse to sign for such “packages.” And, of course, that the IEC is appointed by a Rupublican governor…
This is what one learns when one lives in indiana…