With the midterm elections two months away, a federal whistleblower has warned that the U.S. Postal Service’s new mail voting system is untested, fatally flawed and likely to lead to a “catastrophic failure” if it’s implemented ahead of November’s midterm elections. Critics warn the system could disenfranchise millions of voters.
In March, President Trump signed an executive order directing his administration to create federal lists of citizens and directing the Postal Service to refuse delivery of mail-in ballots to people not on those lists. Voting rights groups and state officials have sued to block the new rules.
And vote EARLY. Not doing so as they’re removing polling places will ultimately end up with long lines and long wait times, meaning there’s likely going to be a bunch of folks that find themselves unable to vote or their votes not being counted.
I think that is very important. Don’t just show up on election day and wait in long lines and find out that Republicans fucked up your registration or something. Vote early when it’s less crowded and when you have time to fix any problems that magically happened to your voter registration.
My location doesn’t do this. If we want to vote in person, we go on Election Day. That said, the polling is typically well run, and our locations tend to move people through without overloading. (That’s thanks to the efforts of our poll workers!)