Postmaster General Confirms Plan to Hold Back Mail Ballots Under Proposed Rule
The postmaster general, David Steiner, said on Wednesday that under a proposed rule, his agency would not deliver mail ballots in states that decline to hand over voter data.
173
Comments23
This is interfering with state elections and that is a crime.
State legislatures should elevate this crime to a felony w/ a 10 year minimum sentence.
Oh look more crime.
Call the cops
Wouldn’t that put the Postmaster General in contempt of Congress?
It’s a congressional mandate; the Federal executive can’t modify the mandate at their whim.
Being in contempt of congress is fashionable these days. Street cred or something.
Who wants to bet trump says he's going to cut funding unless they comply? His whole play book is extortion.
Cutting funding is yet another thing he cannot do legally.
Fuck. These. Fascists. With. A. Cactus.
Isn’t this an overreach on state elections? How can this be legal?
If you're interested, this is the recent letter the Senate sent to this guy, outlining exactly how unconstitutional it is. It's a very good read, you don't have to be a lawyer to understand it, and it's and not too long:
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/260623_USPS_Absentee_EO_Letter.pdf
And before the "strongly worded letter" crowd jumps on, pre-litigation letters are part of how the Senate conducts business. They're NOT writing this because they think a strongly worded letter will help this hopped-up Trump toadie to find his lost love for democracy, they're writing it in the form of a brief to create the paper trail and set the stage for the individual states to sue the USPS, because constitutionally in the United States the states control elections, not the federal government. The orange chancre is literally trying to override the Constitution with an executive order (again).
The USPS is part of the executive, the Senate is part of the legislative, and the battle between will be in the judicial: because the underlying issue is an election, powers already clearly assigned by the Constitution, much of this particular battle against extreme federal overreach will likely fall to the states to fight in court, or not.
Very helpful! Great position.
People from the Trump administation will be getting prosecuted for the rest of our lives. It will be like Nazis still getting caught and tried 40 years later.
Sadly, I don't think them being prosecuted is an inevitability
It isn't legal. They're doing it anyway.
It's kind of a pattern.
Republicans don't care much about legal unless it's Democrats doing it.
We need a judicial injunction post-haste against any interference in ballot deliveries, and to compel the USPS to deliver ballots despite any bullshit investigation by the executive.
Thanks for the guest link. Man, I used to love the USPS. How is this plan supposed to work in states that have all-mail elections?
It's supposed to prevent them from holding elections so they have no representation in Congress
I know that in King county, Washington, you can print your own ballot, fill it out, and deliver it to a ballot drop box. This is still bullshit because there will be a huge number of people who can’t do that or won’t know they need to.
I wouldn't expect the rule to be followed everywhere. Postal workers in an all mail state might just ignore it as nonsensical. Some workers in other states might as well, but this gives MAGA workers the green light to meddle. And if a bunch of votes get blocked/destroyed that introduces uncertainty in the result that can be capitalized on by incumbent fascists.
DONT worry! Our Congressional Leaders and Judicial Leaders will NOT let them Throw away our Ballots! BOTH Branches are EXTREMELY Competent and Good at Protecting
Americans!The Constitution!Rich People!Maybe we should all stop shipping shit.
To what end? The republicans have been trying to kill the USPS for a very long time.