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.
Why not just go vote physically? Mail voting hasn’t been available (with rare exceptions) for the first 200 years, why is it so critical now all of a sudden?
How do you think we had elections during The Civil War? Mail in ballots. It has been important enough that absentee ballots and mail in ballots were definitely a thing in 1860 and 1864, and I’m fairly certain that they had been in use since 1812, if not since the USPS was founded in the Constitution.
…are we in a civil war now?
They used them during times of peace as well as times of war, and we are currently in a war. Also the federal government has no say in how the elections are conducted. The Constitution says so, and the SCOTUS has reaffirmed that multiple times.
They used them for rare exceptions in times of peace. As in, you need a written excuse that’s not “I wanna”.
We’ve been in a civil war the entire damn time, it’s just been cold for a while.
Mail voting makes voting easier for people with disabilities and avoids any waiting time at polling places. Their suppression is part of a larger pattern of voter suppression generally conducted by Republican-led states.