From struggling against rising oil prices to reportedly being out of touch with the news cycle, President Donald Trump has his midterm election work cut out for him. To improve his chances of winning regardless of voters’ wishes, Trump has tried to restrict mail-in voting. Now a new report reveals that Democrats in at least one state have plans to counter Trump’s attempted meddling.
“New Mexico officials are talking to FedEx and UPS about using their companies to deliver mail ballots instead of the Postal Service, said Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver (D),” reported The Washington Post’s Patrick Marley and Justin Jouvenal on Sunday. “The cost would be manageable because the state sends out a relatively small number of mail-in ballots, she said. ‘We are still planning for plan B in a worst-case scenario,’ she said. ‘There are other ways to deliver ballots.’”
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We should all vote by calling in sick that day and shutting down the country to show our discontent
The fact that you guys hold elections on a work day is insane to the rest of the world.
Every day is a work day for someone, having a designated day for voting is an outdated way to do it
Oh, I see, so because you can’t have perfect, we shouldn’t even try to make voting as accessible as possible ? Got it.
People can also vote by mail, or even vote early in many countries (for 12 days before the actual election day, here in NZ), but I expect you’ll find a problem with that too?
Honestly, the fact that you even tried that argument is astonishing.
this is such a good idea, actually if it was a tradition maybe they’d eventually just give the day off as a national holiday as they should.
Unfortunately, this also gives an assist to the conservative plot to get rid of the post office. The fact that tiny-d donnie’s plot to also steal an election in the process is a two-fer - reduce trust in an institution like the USPS while installing conservatives into offices that they don’t deserve.
But in the short term, I understand why they’d reach for this.
I would hope that every state, including mine, would find a way to allow voters to print their ballot out, fill it out at their own damn leisure, and drop it off at a drop box, also at their leisure.
This will give the cons less of a chokepoint in the future too. The net was supposedly designed to treat censorship as damage and route around it.
I thought the issue was in processing them when they’re sent BACK IN, rather than when they were being delivered. If memory serves, the issue was that when processing a group of ballots sent in, if a single envelope had an unreadable signature or something similar they could remove the entire bundle.
How would FedEx or UPS delivering the fresh untouched ballots address this?
The article I read said the USPS rules they’re trying to implement would be to have the postal service pick up and then verify the ballots against the list of voters. If any don’t match they’d be obligated to throw out the entire bunch.
Blatant election tampering through a federal government controlled service.
So Trump is suddenly a brunette now?
Who? No! That’s not the guy! The guy you’re talking about is the the other guy with shit for brains.
