• Jay@lemmy.ca
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    Maybe it’s just my distrust of the whole thing, but I wouldn’t put it past them to do this just for plausible deniability, while the post office still rejects everything they can in accordance to trump’s wishes… That way people will trust mail in voting, and end up with their votes rejected anyway. They get exactly what they want while still giving some illusion of fairness.

    Then, after the elections they’ll just say whoops! USPS shouldn’t have done that, and nothing will happen.

    Edit: on another article about this…

    Alito wrote in his dissent that the Postal Service “has broad authority to regulate the mail” and likely does have the power to enforce Trump’s restrictions.

    So ya. It’s a trap.

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        I wish that I’m wrong, but the USPS have already been messing with mail in votes on trump’s orders…

        Trump signed an executive order in March that gave the USPS an unprecedented role in screening states’ mail ballot programs. Election officials have already expressed deep concerns about having to use a system that has not gone through extensive testing and training procedures

        The agency will not deliver ballots for states if there are any discrepancies between the voter information in the USPS system and what’s picked up by agency scanners on the envelopes of the ballots.

        https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/01/politics/usps-whistleblower-mail-ballot-rules-trump

        Also, the turnip appointed postmaster D. Steiner has stated that if a state refuses to give the Trump administration their voter lists under Trump’s Executive Order 14399, the Postal Service will not mail their ballots https://abcnews.com/Politics/postal-service-deliver-ballots-states-refuse-turn-voter/story?id=134185698

        They are absolutely rigging everything they can to gain an edge.

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          first it was dejoy trying to destroy the mail sorters, and then limiting OT for USPS, but he then just stopped doing anything during BIDEN’s presidency, kinda wierd he dint act at all. until he was replaced.