First of all, I assure you this is not a LARP. I’m a very very low level GOP guy in PA. Second, I want to thank whoever first posted this here. Earlier today, someone posted a link to the PA Data site. If you use a desktop, I can walk you through what the site appears to show.
This is a link to a PA state data site that tracks mail ballots requested and whether they were returned.
https://data.pa.gov/d/mcba-yywm/visualization
When you click that link, then click “No thanks” and don’t sign in. From there, there’s a tab marked “Date of Birth”, click the ellipses and select “sort ascending”. It starts with a whole bunch of people born on 1/1/1800 which is a coding tool for domestic violence victims. But if you then go to the bottom “next” button and start scrolling across the pages, there’s literally hundreds upon hundreds of people born between 1850-1920 that not only requested mail in ballots, but also returned them. And the dates are all notated. Many people are 120+ years old.
I assure each of you that this is in the hands of Trump’s lawyers in Philly at this moment.
I have little faith in the people. The tracking system is a scanner and a database though, and that I can understand, believe, and audit for fuckery.
The fact that it is even possible to backdate postmarks tells me that the "tracking system" is some government dinosaur, easily manipulated. There's also a lot of variation in USPS equipment across different locations. Much of the country seems to have photo tracking, where customers can sign up to see scans of their incoming mail as it passes through their local post offices, so they can tell if anything that was out for delivery to them either didn't get delivered or got stolen after delivery. But not all locations have that. I'm in a fairly small rural midwestern town, and when I moved here I tried to sign up for that service and got an automated response that it wasn't available in my area. Which areas do and don't have it would certainly be publicly available information, so obviously professional election fraudsters would have it and exploit it.