You just wait for it to be delivered to you and then grab them out of all the unlocked mailboxes in your area. They all go out at the same time and would all be delivered to the same neighborhood the same day. If the harvester is lucky he can get multiple ballots in a single mailbox.
Not impossible, but this seems at least borderline far fetched.
First, have you weighed in the fact that the man was found with a number of credit cards not belonging to him? This is at least suggestive of the traditional goal of mail theft. The cards themselves, or info in the stolen mail that allows for the application for cards. What he had in his possession, in other words, suggests more traditional mail theft- generated identity theft as a goal, not ballots.
Second, 300 ballots found. For sake of argument, call it 100 mail boxes, allowing three voting age residents per box. Obviously could be a bit more than 100 boxes. The theft would not be from boxes attached to houses. 100 houses way too risky. Too easy to be seen by residents or passing motorists. 100 landings, sets of steps, right next to a door. Very doubtful. Very risky for being seen in the time to go door to door to 100 houses.
Would have to be in rural-style delivery areas. Out boxes or curbside delivery boxes. Maybe from large banks of boxes, in situations where all the boxes are in one place, separated from the community of houses served. We’ve all seen such banks of outboxes. Park, get out on foot, strip the boxes, then beat it. Still, I’ve never seen banks of a hundred boxes, so maybe several banks. All risky, though, can be seen at any moment. (Most such banks are being replaced with central delivery cluster boxes. In that case, thief would need keys, doubtful).
Rural style curbside boxes each on separate posts and strung along the road. This is risky, as the thief will be driving into opposing traffic. The rural carrier’s vehicle has steering wheel on right side of truck, thief does not, so he has to drive to each box while facing oncoming traffic as he reaches into box from left side of car. Pretty risky, I think we can all agree. Dangerous.
What I speculated, which was mail theft from a collection can(s), and the ballots were incidental, not the goal, made more sense given the facts stated at the time. I noticed the ballots were bundled, three bundles. That suggested to me that it was outgoing mail, and dumped in the can, rather than going directly to a post office, or distribution center. Maybe a lazy worker did that, don’t know.
What I speculated in the comment you replied to I found out was an initial operating assumption. But my experience had already told me that was likely. Does not mean that’s where it led. You may find the answer through news sources. I am not going to be privy to the specifics of the Inspection Service investigation. I just knew what was being speculated by tapping my grapevine.
We’ll see, but I find your take possibly far fetched. Election fraud is very limited in the United States. I have found that folks who believe otherwise, who believe it is a real problem, a big problem, will work hard to find it, or claim they found it. They want to confirm that belief, so, at least in their own minds, they will.
I think you wanted it to be harvesting theft, and you found a way to believe it was. It sounds a bit far fetched to me, and hopefully we’ll know some day. If it was harvesting, conservative news sources will certainly spotlight it. If not, we may not hear from news sources….