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Supreme court rejects Trump’s mail ballot restrictions for midterm elections Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Lawmakers have given their support to the supreme court’s rejection of Donald Trump’s bid to restrict mail ballots for the midterm elections. Mitch McConnell, the 84-year-old former Senate majority leader from Kentucky, was seen in Washington for the first t…

  • Jaysyn@lemmy.world
    18·
    6 days ago

    According to the recent whistleblower, USPS is ignoring the courts.

    https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-usps-liedto-us-the-court-and

    The whistleblower complaint also contains a worrisome warning: The system, as designed, could reject entire batches of mail ballots over a single scanning error. That gives USPS a mechanism for disenfranchisement at scale. Attorney Marc Elias of Democracy Docket noted that a batching rule that groups ballots by ZIP code would disproportionately affect Democratic-leaning, higher-density areas. And as Sen. Blumenthal pointed out, voters who recently changed their names after marriage or moved are among those most likely to trigger a mismatch—the same populations targeted by the SAVE Act.

    “It may be sloppy. It may be chaotic,” Elias observed. “But it is designed to achieve what Trump wants.”

    The individuals carrying out these orders should be indicted & incarcerated.

    • ramble81@lemmy.zip
      13·
      6 days ago

      This is where the conspiracy theorist in me goes. SCOTUS upholds mail in, in an attempt to put people’s minds at ease. USPS is going to fuck with it anyway so it’ll suppress more votes.

      Had they flat out denied it, there would have been a ground swell of “get out the vote in person”, which would have raised the number of counted votes.

      Granted for the latter, they’re going to send ICE in to intimidate people. But that would be much harder to do with a large number of people already mobilized.

      • Jaysyn@lemmy.world
        10·
        6 days ago

        Yup. Make plans to vote in person if you don’t get a ballot in the mail. If you do get a ballot in the mail, drop them off directly in a ballot drop box. Don’t bother to mail them back.