According to the text posted online Friday, the USPS is ready to implement the new restrictions on mail-in voting if the court injunctions are lifted.
“If the government obtains timely relief from the injunctions, implementation immediately thereafter will provide election officials as much time as possible before the next election to comply with the rule’s preparation standards for Federal Ballot Mail envelopes, and to prepare to submit data to the Federal Ballot Mail Portal (‘Portal’), before the mail-in and absentee ballots subject to this rule are mailed (which generally occurs in September or thereafter, as determined by state law),” the rule reads. “The Portal will become active (along with the verification process that relies on Portal data) at the time of the publication of the system of records (‘SOR’) governing the Portal.”
Nearly one in three Americans voted by mail in 2024, but Trump, who wants to restrict the number of voters by limiting ballots cast by mail, signed an executive order in March that prohibits the USPS from delivering ballots to any voters not on a federal list of citizens deemed eligible to vote in each state by the Department of Homeland Security.
Wut? When I registered to vote in California, they told me to check the box to vote by mail.
Why wouldn’t you want the time to get the ballot early, do your research over weeks or months to slowly fill it out, and then send it out in your PJs?
I’m surprised it’s not 9 out of 10 that vote by mail
Honestly, I don’t trust it. I know my ballot is in the box when I put it in there.
Yup. Colorado here. I don’t know why anyone would bother to vote in-person, on the day of the election unless they had highly unusual circumstances.
I typically drop my filled-out ballot going through one of the drive-through locations on my way to/from work.
It’s a beautiful thing. I’ve had to stand in line, in person before and I really don’t want to go back.