(iii) Proposed provisions specifying that the USPS shall not transmit mail-in or absentee ballots from any individual unless those individuals have been enrolled on a State-specific list described in subsection (b)(iv) of this section with the USPS pursuant to this subsection.
Is it legal to say “we need a revolution to overthrow Trump, and fast”?
Ask the French. They may have some pointers.
It depends on who’s hearing/reading it and if you consider their edicts legal.
Here it is Americans. Its time to put that love of liberty and freedom to the test. Or are you all going to sleep meme your way through a fascist power grab.
Second Amendment nutjobs sleeping on this be like:
Kinda seems like we already did.
This is nothing. There are nightmarish depths yet to plumb.
The sense of “what can I even do” is so fucking overwhelming right now. I know that’s part of the goal, completely flood the zone to make us apathetic, but it’s working really well. This is exhausting, just getting through the day is exhausting, and still I feel a deep need to at least do SOMETHING, but don’t see anywhere my effort would even scratch the surface. I donate half my eggs to the community fridge, I offer free lawn care to locals that aren’t able to afford it or do it themselves, I am vocal about progress in spaces that are traditionally conservative, but at the end of the day it doesn’t feel like it matters or makes any difference.
Artemis II…space! We’re all going to space!
Voting Rights—>joink!!
Pulling an Orbán.
No, this is not that.
Orbán never fucked around with mail in voting in this way.
Hungary never got this bad.
LMAO. If the dems did this, the maga cunts would be like “OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!” but daddy dumpy does it, and they’re probably rejoicing.
And the good Americans just passively accept. Who is the bigger problem?
Way to victim blame. Only psychopaths and sycophants pull this shit
Oh fuck off “victim blame” so you’re good just sitting there crying and lamenting that the bad people aren’t seeing the error of their ways and self correcting? Wake the fuck up
You’re the biggest problem here fighting your own side. If you’ve decided there’s no way back : You’re the one doing fuck all to fix it.
The victim? Keep telling yourself that unless you are actively trying to stop it.
Yea because fighting your own side is all about fixing it. Go talk to yourself in the mirror when it comes to addressing how not to fix shit.
Obviously the ones actually doing the horrible things are the bigger problem.
… Definitely the trump cult? Like yeah, you could argue that Democrats are also a problem, but the ‘bigger’ problem is pretty fucking obvious
Hard disagree. The. In MAGa Americans are passive AF right now. Sure, there is online complaining and the odd ineffective protest, but actual action to slow / break down MAGA? Nope. The Canadians are doing more than Americans and it was self organized not government. Imagine if Americans joined the MAGA boycott as it would cause chaos and bankruptcies which would get their attention. Money talks especially to the MAGA crowd. So while not all Americans are behaving as bad and as evil as MAGA, they are also not preventing the damage it is doing to themselves and the world either. Only Americans can save themselves and it is not looking good.
Hur dur where’s that 2nd amendment now hur dur <-- You rn, typing on the internet from thousands of miles away about how we’re not abandoning our lives to get shot by the secret service
But you are ok with others being shot thousands of miles away?
April… ah what the fuck
But seriously, how is that supposed to work? Is the USPS supposed to open all the envelopes and determine if the voters are registered?
They just seize everything by default. They’ll get back to you later about which ones are illegal.
Good thing I vote online.
The United States Packet Service will see to that TCP/IP packet of yours.
Well thats election interference
remember, every accusation is a confession.
All this does for mail voters is require them to get their ballots earlier than usual. There are many reasons to hate Trump but this is not it.
Okay, you know you need your ballot mailed to you right? So what happens when they mail it late??
If so, why bother doing it? He didn’t issue a pointless executive order, did he? … Maybe your interpretation is incorrect.
Nah, it’s pure vote tampering, well-worth hating the Republican administration for. People will forget, people have busy lives, much more than people will decide to send in the ballot early and they know that. As a bonus it would no longer give people a deadline to convene around – will the ballot be delivered in two days? Three? What about a mail delay? Idk how you could see this as anything but despicable thuggery.
It applies to all voters including those for him.
So you think voter suppression is ok, as long as it applies equally to everyone?
No I don’t, however I am pointing out that it disadvantages Trump voters just as much.
And I’m saying that that’s a pretty meaningless observation to make, unless you’re trying to defend voter suppression.
I don’t know what I wrote that indicates I care about who it favors, but that’s not the point. Mail-in voting increases voter turnout, so making mail-in voting harder or less accessible is vote suppression. Vote suppression is bad for democracy. That’s it.
Even if it affected his supporters more than others, it would still be a bad thing. If change is to happen democratically, it needs to be actually democratic (or as democratic as FPTP gets, anyway).
Yeah that’s the point.
Just change the name from USA to Fucking Russia II.
How are you guys not realising you were always the same, one just lost a spending war
Fascism, plain and simple.
Uh, isn’t that how it’s always worked? Like, everywhere?
You can’t vote if you’re not a citizen. That’s like, duh. Floating this onto the USPS is stupid. It already happens exactly where it’s supposed to…
USPS is underfunded and understaffed. This is exactly why he wants to dump this on them. It’s so votes don’t make it in time.
Yet another tactic to prevent “the wrong people” from voting. But a lot has already been happening even before this. States have been passing laws over the last several years that mail-in ballots can only be counted if they physically arrive at he Election office before Election Day.
It used to be with most states that a ballot would be counted if it arrived by X number of days after Election Day as long as it was postmarked by that day. And it used to be that your mail was postmarked the same day you mailed it, proving for example that you sent in your tax return on time. But not any more. The USPS is now saying that your item might not be postmarked for some time after you actually mail it, depending on when they get around to processing it.
Depending on where you live, relying on a postmark to prove you mailed your tax return, mail-in ballot, bill payment or any other time-sensitive document by a specific date may no longer work as you expect. As the U.S. Postal Service continues implementing operational changes in an effort to shore up its finances and modernize its infrastructure, the agency expects an increase in delays between when you mail something and when it is postmarked, according to a public notice in the Federal Register that took effect Dec. 24. A postmark shows the date your mail was processed, and historically has been applied the same day you mail an item. However, due to limiting pickups at many postal locations and mail now often traveling farther to regional processing centers where the postmark is applied, “the postmark date does not inherently or necessarily align with the date on which the Postal Service first accepted possession of the mailpiece,” the notice reads.
Mail-in ballots are clearly recognizable in their special envelopes (so they would get priority treatment). So it’s very easy for the Post Office to sort out those ballots from the other mail. And depending on the state, besides your signature it will have your name and return address they could scan and compare to a list, or at the very least they know where it was mailed from. So they could easily screen out ballots from people areas more likely to vote Democratic and simply delay postmarking them until past the deadline, or just hold up delivery to make sure they’re late.
I would say we should avoid voting by mail, or if you do, mail it well before the deadline AND consider driving to a post office in an affluent, white, or in general Republican-leaning area and mailing it from there. But really, at least for the next couple of federal election cycles or for as long as magats are in power, I recommend voting early and in person at the Election office if at all possible.
That change on its own, really isn’t as nefarious as it seems. It was always postmarked where it first was processed into the mail stream, now that’s just taking place at regional centers.
You could always get it postmarked at the desk, and were encouraged to do so as there was no guarantee it would be processed the same day. You can still do that.
And mine still hasn’t been processed yet so the USPS may have it (for our primary). Fuck.
