According to the text posted online Friday, the USPS is ready to implement the new restrictions on mail-in voting if the court injunctions are lifted.
“If the government obtains timely relief from the injunctions, implementation immediately thereafter will provide election officials as much time as possible before the next election to comply with the rule’s preparation standards for Federal Ballot Mail envelopes, and to prepare to submit data to the Federal Ballot Mail Portal (‘Portal’), before the mail-in and absentee ballots subject to this rule are mailed (which generally occurs in September or thereafter, as determined by state law),” the rule reads. “The Portal will become active (along with the verification process that relies on Portal data) at the time of the publication of the system of records (‘SOR’) governing the Portal.”
Nearly one in three Americans voted by mail in 2024, but Trump, who wants to restrict the number of voters by limiting ballots cast by mail, signed an executive order in March that prohibits the USPS from delivering ballots to any voters not on a federal list of citizens deemed eligible to vote in each state by the Department of Homeland Security.
When Trump is in office, the Postal Service dances to his tune, but when Biden was in office, it was IMPOSSIBLE for him to anything to stop the abuse.
“For far too long, our party has seen its job as managing decline instead of delivering material change for working people,” Mamdani said at a rally headlined by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. “It has seen its job as explaining why we cannot instead of showing how we can."
To be clear, they published the rule to the federal register. If the I junctions are lifted, the rule will immediately go into effect. This has no immediate effect and hopefully never will.
I have no intention of trusting the mail, I'm going to deliver my ballot to the county clerk by hand. I recommend everyone else cut the mail out where they can.
Don't add to lines and delays at polling stations on election day.
Don't trust your ballot will be postmarked properly if dropped off last day.
Also late returns and shifting results are used as "evidence" of voter fraud.
You warm fuzzy feeling going to the polling place on day of election be dammed, vote as early as possible. If you emotionally need to be at polling place on the day of the election, volunteer as a poll worker or watcher, give rides to polling place for those who need.
If you live in Texas, you can vote early from October 19th to October 30th, 7 a.m. to 7pm. There is absolutely no reason you can't find the 20 minutes it will take to vote sometime between 7am and 7pm from October 19th to October 30th. If you live in one of these counties, you can vote at any polling station in the county you reside in.
"I'm writing an official letter and posting it on the refrigerator. It says that if they make it legal to shit in the fountain at the bellagio, then I will IMMEDIATELY be doing that. And now I just wait..."
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