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PETERS: If a state refuses to turn their absentee voter list to the federal govt, will Postal Service still mail their ballots under this proposed rule? STEINER: No PETERS: So it basically coerces states to hand over their absentee voter rolls or face consequences of not being able to vote by mail

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They will do this regardless. We already know this. If a court says unlawful it won't matter. They'll disregard it. They're going to do absolutely everything possible, lawful or unlawful, to keep power in their control. Minimize votes, disregard votes, stop votes. They know they're done otherwise.

I vote by mail voucher here in NJ, but hand deliver my ballot to the local county vote drop box, which in my town is by the town hall. My advice to everyone is to try to NOT drop your ballot in a USPS mailbox if you want your vote counted. The USPS has been compromised.

Yes, SCOTUS ruled that mail that isn’t delivered for any reason is not the liability of USPS, so they could literally dump mail into the river and not commit a crime. I don’t think that totally clears the way for dumping ballots, and I think lost mail is still subject to civil remedies

But none of that matters. Whatever might be done on Election Day that is illegal will still prevent votes from being cast or counted properly. The prosecution for any such crimes will come too late.

The United States Post Office is paid to move mail - not decide what mail we can or can't get. If it's not drugs, chemicals or a bomb just do your fricking job and move the mail.

Not the postmaster’s job to decide who gets a ballot and who doesn’t Our country recorder’s office does that job. Elected by the people and trusted with our voter information I do not trust this administration. They continuously lie about election fraud. No proof and lost all but one court case

There’s a simple solution…. Place your mail in ballot envelope in a larger plain Manila envelope addressed to wherever the ballot goes. Only use your address for the return address. If they won’t deliver it they’ve opened it in transit and made an even bigger legal mess for themselves.

Fun fact though…. By forcing people to do this I’m almost positive the price of postage becomes a poll tax which would ALSO be illegal. These goofballs REALLY want to experience federal prison.

The postmaster general is not subject to Senate confirmation. He is also not appointed directly by the president. He is named by the USPS Board of Governors (the president does select those board members). They are the only ones who get to vote on him, and they already did that in May of 2025.

All we do is sit around and wait for shitty things to be done to our country and then react after it’s too late. Yeah, probably a judge will rule against this but it will likely be too late and our elections will be in turmoil.

Curious how the United States Postal Service is funded? Taxpayers? Or does Trump pay them out of his pocket? Oh wait. DJT doesn’t pay for anything. Taxation without Representation? Federal Government running roughshod over States, which control elections under the law? Rhetorical questions.

Other than the Postal Service Reconciliation Act 2022, it’s funded by customers. Irrespective, Trump wants to prevent customers (States) from utilizing the service to prevent Voting by Mail. Executive overreach implemented by a sycophant postmaster. Trump: “I’m the only customer that matters”.

Just more MAGA trump bullshit: Steiner:"All that does Senator is that we make sure that we match the ballots that a state believes they're sending out to what actually gets sent out." He meant to say that anyone with a "D" next to their name won't get a ballot.

2/24/26- USPS v. Konan. 5-4 decision:SCOTUS ruled Americans cannot sue USPS for the loss,delay,or intentional nondelivery of mail. David Steiner Postmaster General and CEO of USPS, hand-selected and backed by President Trump. Midterm-Ck online your Mail-in received. Not received, vote in person.

I live in a mail only voting state and we get our ballots at least a month in advance; it's easy to check if it's been mailed and that's enough time to get a provisional ballot. They may try to gum up the works, but they can't stop it.

It's all about the elections. Republicans want permanent power any way they can get it. Nobody gets to sit this one out. #VOTE #VoteOutTheGOP #VoteOutEveryRepublican

Sorry Ben Franklin, the USPS had a good run. If the post office can decided what to deliver and not, that is going to undo a lot of legal processes in this country.

This won't fly in court. The federal government has no election involvement and I suspect the feds dictating what the post office cannot deliver is also to be tossed out .

Bush v. Gore, my man. Bush v. Gore. Right wing judges (especially 5th Circuit and SC) will do whatever they think they can get away with, no matter how unconstitutional.

This is one of the reasons the felon was targeting law firms at the beginning of his term. Traditionally, many of them would help fight some of his shit at little or no cost, as a sort of public service. (&tax write off) Now no one wants to touch it, for fear of retribution. Except Elias. 💙🌊

Hmmm, isn't blackmail illegal? I guess it doesn't matter as nearly everything he is doing is illegal and nobody does anything about it. 🤬

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Do you know that the US Postal Service has proposed a new rule that would allow it to refuse to deliver mail ballots in states that don't turn over voter rolls to the federal government? This is part of Trump's effort to interfere with the 2026 midterm election. Submit a public comment by July 2

As a one-time mail carrier I completely agree. How could they actually carry this out? I hope they can’t, but they are sure as f*ck going to give it their best shot. Maybe they post pictures of “forbidden mail” on each sorting station and require mail carriers to carry it out. Horrible!

When I received my ballot in California, it was easily recognizable as a ballot sent from a government office (don't recall if it was a county or state office). I would imagine the fascists at the USPS will refuse to process that mail next time so that you don't have the option to deliver it.

I'm picturing men with guns standing behind sorting machine operators, threatening to take them to jail for [insert charges here] if they let any ballot envelopes through the machine.

The Trump administration doesn’t care both the law but the USPS can’t start opening people’s mail, those employees would go to jail. The one special boy thing only works for Trump

They will shut down the national mail service over the election period. You will be furloughed for several months. They will give some inexplicable reason for it & declare it legal under a weird 150yr old law.

Blatantly unconstitutional! You can’t pick and choose who gets the fucking postal service All these fuckers do is cheat! Cheat and protect pedophiles

these bozos are going to engineer a failed election. of course they want that. ask yourself, if everyone agrees an election was massively unfair, what happens? what would happen if that were the case after november? or after 28?

…frustrating the way they dance around the elephant in the room…the USPS has but one mission, which has nothing to do with state voting procedures; The United States Postal Service (USPS) was created on July 1, 1971, as an independent agency of the U.S. federal government…

…replacing the United States Post Office Department. Its mission is to provide reliable, affordable, universal mail service to bind the nation together through communication.

Trump is not a mob boss. Putin and Netanyahu are the mob bosses. They tell Trump what to do, and he’s compromised and greedy enough to do it.

Total BS! Elections will Always have Good and BAD Consequences that will effect Everyone. The pending midterm elections could have good consequences if you Vote like your lives depend on it?

Yes, they do realize it. Please commit to memory this VERY important political fact: Rcons do NOT care if policies hurt their people so long as it hurts Democrats too (and, if possible, hurts Dems worse). "Drained Pool Politics" explains a lot of legislation that would otherwise make no sense.

That's what you call FEDERAL election fraud. STATES control elections not Trump & his foul administration. Trump has voted by mail most elections. Election workers found his & his family's every mistake & had to throw plenty of his ballots due to mistakes.

Touché. It's less how to vote as it is who is allowed to vote. And this isn't limited to the generic Democrat vote, either. They are still litigating voting rights, women's suffrage and the Civil War.

My wife became a US Citizen last December. She hears this news, and is horrified her first vote will be nullified. I point out in WA we will have our blank ballots delivered just fine OR we can print them out from online if needed and use the drop box she has seen me use our 20+ years of...

nwsidebar.wsba.org/2020/09/28/a... Individual State Law. Individuals within states need to demand it within *their* state or it isn't going to happen. A Federal Law, in my opinion, isn't necessary or appropriate as what the Feds give, the Feds are more than happy to take away as they find fit.

nwsidebar.wsba.orgA Brief Legal History of Washington’s Vote-By-Mail SystemFor weeks, the national discourse has been embroiled in battles over the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and the upcoming general election. Amidst an ongoing health calamity, people in the U.S. and arou…

Under existing federal law, and in accordance with a binding 2021 court settlement, the Post Office cannot legally refuse your mail-in ballot. The courts are highly likely to block or strike down the proposed rule before it can ever be enforced.

Of course not. Giving Donald (via minion) control over mail-in voting. As for in-person voting ... getting the Solve A Fictional Problem Act through Congress would be his biggest prize. He's on that today. But even if that fails, he can still deploy ICE in huge numbers to intimidate voters.

I predict voting-by-internet or fax, either for outgoing/downloaded ballot forms, and/or for incoming completed, signed ballots. Maybe we're done with USPS? If I can enter secure bond orders online with the US Treasury, why not my vote with a county elections agency?

Another MAGA appointment chosen for his total lack of character and apparent stupidity. Less than a year ago he took an oath part of which is to faithfully discharge the duties of their office. I could be wrong but I believe delivering the mail is one of those duties.

Excellent idea. So many of these smirking, insolent, deflecting fuckers who jerk these Congressional committees around should be frog-marched out of the room in shackles to rot in a cell until they decide to cooperate. Congress wouldn't be the feckless, ineffectual joke it's made of itself.

Agree totally. But on the other hand, people they've had testify under oath who then lied and everybody knew they were lying, never faced any consequences. Next to Trump, Congress is the biggest facilitator of our laws all becoming meaningless.

This order is BLATANT interference in a state’s responsibility to maintain accurate voter registration files. As a FEDERAL agency, the USPS has NO legal right to get a state’s voter list. Steiner is an absolute LIAR about what this order does.

So the USPS routinely gets my city wrong. I live in a small town and they lump me into a large one quite a ways away. My ballot by mail wouldn't match. My registration and DL says my town. I don't get a ballot.