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- hackyhacky> Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problemsYes. That's the point. The administration doesn't care about fixing whatever hypothetical mail ballot fraud may or may not exist; they are doing this to inject chaos into the election results, giving them cover to claim any result they want or even to just throw out the results entirely. Catastrophic problems are the means to that end.
- cogman10Regardless what anyone thinks about the security of voting in the US. I'd hope that they could see how massively upending multiple states' voting systems 2 months before the midterms is a really bad idea. Even with the best intentions, implementing such a sweeping untested change so rapidly is a horrible idea.(No, I don't support it regardless, but surely even if you do you could recognize that the timeframe is way too short).
- MithrilTuxedoWhat business is it of the USPS except to transmit all mail regardless of purpose?The fact that the USPS would notice elections were being conducted is perverse.
- skybrianI'm wondering how easy the USPS is to route around.In California's last election, there were 2,758 drop-box locations and 3,546 polling locations. In cities, these are often within walking distance. In rural areas, they might not be so convenient.So it seems like, at least for returning ballots, any USPS snafus would affect rural voters (which skew Republican) more than urban?Delivering is another question. I wonder if local governments could drop off ballots if they needed to?
- someothherguyyvoting by mail is pretty popular these dayshttps://electionlab.mit.edu/research/voting-mail-and-absente...more controversy:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/us/mail-in-voting-states....https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/us/politics/postal-servic...https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/us/politics/postal-servic...
- ck2good thing it's completely illegal for the federal government to interfere with state voting proceedure> For instance, the Postal Service has what the whistleblower claims is a "zero percent failure rate."> Mail workers would scan a sample of a batch of mail ballots — about 400 out of a batch of 10,000 or more — to verify it matches what is in the federal mail ballot portal.> Under the policy, if even one barcode on a single ballot in the batch doesn't scan properly or the information does not match, the entire batch would be rejected and returned to state election officials so the problem ballot could be addressed, and then the verification process would have to be started again.
- UltraSaneTrump wrecks everything he touches.
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