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US Postal Service rule tightens mail-in voting despite court orders blocking changes
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No, not only mail-in ballots. Voters may choose to mail-in their ballots or submit them the old-fashioned ways. For some, mailing their ballots is easier than old ways and increases voter participation. Republicans want to discourage voter participation, hence the war on voting by mail.
If the post office won’t deliver ballots then how does anyone there receive their ballots?
Looks like it’s Utah, Colorado, Vermont, and Hawaii as well. Though there’s a good likelihood Utah handed over voter rolls.
The ballots here arrive in the mail. That includes envelopes to enclose them in when you return them, either by mail or by drop-off somewhere. I've not yet heard of the distribution of ballets by mail being a target of Republicans, but it could happen. Then we'd be back to the real oldy-time voting methods of having to physically go into a polling center where you only got your ballot on arrival. Republicans would love that, because it both discourages voting and would feel like something from the 40s and 50s, the era when America Was Great. Polling centers would also allow greater control over who got to vote - darker-skinned people or people of non-European heritage or women or the disabled or anyone who looked "weird" could be easily turned away without even having seen a ballot.
Mostly people have to work or don’t have transportation so they don’t get to vote. Lines, not everyone is physically capable of standing in line. There are also cases of, whelp, the polling place line is around the block and down the street but it’s 8pm so, too bad, so sad, go home voteless.