Are you as worried as I am about the trump administration's take over of the Post Office

[senseandsensibility]

and control of mail in ballots right before the midterms? This blatant power grab is completely bogus as mail in ballots are fair and accurate. Yes, even in California. The whole process is literally transparent there (visible to anyone behind clear glass walls). If you would like to know more about how accurate and transparent CA's elections are, Jacob Soboroff did a great segment about them on his debut show this morning.

The good news is that lawsuits will proceed to stop this. Nevada's AG was on MSNOW this morning saying he will meet the administration in court, and I hope the CA and other states join in.

We need to fight this!

[CrispyQ]

1. I don't think we're doing enough & that includes me.

The one thing I think people should do that most aren't doing, is call your reps. Especially if they're republican, but call your dem reps, too! I call in my car after one of my weekly appts, but I should call every day. We all should. Our reps absolutely do pay attention to the number of calls & postcards they get.

I'm terribly worried about what will happen between now & the election, & I worry too many of us, me included, have our hopes pinned on the grim reaper.

[senseandsensibility]

2. Thank you for the "kick in the pants" CrispyQ

I needed it. Will call my reps (all Ds) on Monday.

[LisaL]

4. Trump doesn't want to give up power.

Which was clear before the election, yet 77 millions voted for him.

[LisaL]

3. Yes, of course.

Some states will be up the creek without a paddle if they only vote by mail and post office refuses to deliver ballots.
And those are the blue states.

[sakabatou]

5. Yep. It'll become even shittier, and force people to use shitty private companies

[LisaL]

6. As of now, I don't think private companies are allowed to deliver ballots.

At least in my state you can't send your ballot by anything other than USPS.

[lostnfound]

7. 100%. Also GOP arguing "90 day silent period doesn't apply to federal government, only to states"

Which could enable arbitrary changes to their ‘approved voter lists’ much closer to the elections.

Post office will be a gauntlet for voters to run through.
Is your name on the federal ‘approved voter list’? No? Sorry, they won’t mail your ballot.
Do you think your postmark before the election is good enough? Sorry, they don’t postmark locally anymore; only when it gets to the hubs.
Did you allocate plenty of time for the snail mail, and it arrived the day after the election? Too bad, they are likely to forbid states from counting votes in the ‘grace period’.
Did you check to see if you are on the voter rolls? Sorry, your state has to use the voter purge lists from the federal government, and we already know those will be (intentionally) “inaccurate”.

That personally identifiable bar code on the OUTSIDE of your envelope? Hmm, maybe we can run a little subroutine through palantir databases to find out if you are the ‘right kind of voter’. If not, those sorting machines might put you on the extra long trip to the extra slow sorting hub.

They don’t have belt-and-suspenders in the GOP voter suppression strategy. They have belt, suspenders, velcro, safety pin, superglue, buttons and rivets to ensure that elections can be rigged.
All while claiming that liberals are rigging them.
Most unamerican crop of republicans ever.