Under proposed rule, USPS won't deliver mail ballots to states that don't provide voter rolls, postmaster general says
Postmaster General David Steiner told a Senate committee Wednesday that, if a proposed rule is adopted, the U.S. Postal Service would withhold mail ballots from states that do not hand over to the federal government lists of people who have requested absentee or mail ballots.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-under-proposed-rule-usps-wont-deliver-mail-ballots-to-states-that-dont-provide-voter-rolls-postmaster-general-saysOpen linkView original on lemmy.zip
Personally, I'm curious how they intend to apply this to states like mine, where all ballots are mailed.
I presume the GOP will just appoint people to represent you. Don't worry, it'll be totally in your best interests, as decided by the rich people running the party.
Do you like being owned as farm equipment? Because that's what you get when right wingers take over.
Damn, your state doesn't even have drop boxes?
Drop box does no good if the ballot is never delivered to you in the first place.
Oh, we do. I meant that all of the ballots get mailed to voters before the election. We can either mail them back (postage paid) or drop them off at drop boxes in every district. It's a pretty awesome system, but if the USPS refuses to deliver the ballots it could be a problem. The state would have to figure out some other way to distribute them. It would be a huge PITA (not to mention expense) and probably reduce voter turnout significantly.
Oh yeah, that makes sense.
In Oregon where we've been vote by mail since like the 90s you can still vote in person. But we don't really have the infrastructure to allow every voter to vote in person. If those ballots don't get mailed out I imagine most Oregonians just won't vote, and those that do are going to be stuck in never ending lines.
So...extortion? Got it.
I would imagine that, in vote by mail states like mine, we would instantly have tens of thousands of volunteers going "Cool, cool... we'll hand deliver them. Fuck you USPS."
Video of Postmaster General saying USPS won't send mail ballots to states that don't provide voter lists
https://lemmy.world/post/48632196
Cut the fucking USPS off the loop and put a voting system in place over the internet. We're a quarter century into the 21st ferchrissake...
No. Honestly we should be going far as possible from computers so that tech bros can't rig the vote as easily. Paper ballots. With humans counting them. Sucks, but safer for democracy
I agree. But when the low-tech paper system is compromised, you need to move to something else everybody has. And in this day and age, that's a cellphone with an internet connection.
There is literally no known method of securing something as important as an election over the internet. So many attack vectors and has the ability to manipulate massive amounts of votes. Paper is the proper way to run an election and will be for the forseeable future.
Not when the dude in charge of delivering the paper works for a fascist regime it isn't, is my point.
I never said voting over the internet was a good option, I said it was the next least bad option when the snail mail service is compromised.
This is an exceedingly bad idea.
That would drastically increase the attack surface for voter fraud. I can just see the Russian Malware now that shows you on your cell phone screen that your votes were cast for your candidates while the malware voted for its candidates instead. You'd never even know your vote was stolen.
Hacked by 4-Chan in 3-2-1...
Alternately, ddosed by 4-Chan even faster.