On Friday, a three‑judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously paused a lower‑court injunction that had temporarily blocked the USPS from finalising and enforcing the new ballot‑delivery rule.
The rule would permit the Postal Service to withhold delivery of mail‑in and absentee ballots where state officials decline to send certain voter data to federal authorities. In practice, that sets up a confrontation between states determined to guard sensitive voter information and a federal agency now claiming it cannot guarantee accurate ballot delivery without it.
Its not the job of USPS to determine whether a ballot is valid or not. That’s the job of the election officials. Any ballot sent and not delivered should lead to criminal punishment. The job of the USPS is to deliver the ballot. They dont verify the validity of any other letter or package sent, the ballots should be no different.
A panel of 3 judges disagree, just like 3 S.C. justices believe the Constitution is unconstitutional.
Many town halls have drop boxes for mail/absentee ballots. Skip USPS if you think they may screw with ballots.
So suddenly it’s going to cause harm? What about the last 30 elections. They were able to deliver the ballots just fine for decades then this year is just too much. The courts, the senate, the president is destroying this nation.
It’s all thanks to the heritage foundation. How their headquarters in DC hasn’t been surrounded by protest and cameras doxxing the people behind the science idk.
You may not see it but that does happen, pretty much every day, is it on the news? Nope. They had to come up with a exit strategy because people were attacking cars leaving the building.
We can all get together as a nation and drone strike that mother fucker into oblivion. We each get one drone, with like 5 lbs of explosives. Easy peasy. We all hit it the same day. They literally cannot stop us all.
the court accepted the USPS’s warning that delaying the policy would inflict lasting damage.
allow it to refuse delivery of ballot materials in states that do not share detailed, eligible voter lists with the federal government.
What in the actual fuck, what “lasting damage” would be done by delivering the fucking ballots to people who should be getting them. Tell me.
the judges wrote, ‘there can be no do over’, adopting the agency’s argument that it would be locked into an election cycle under rules it believes are inadequate.
“If we don’t let the government purge voter roles by crying “fraud!” to everyone who voted democrat, then we could potentially have a free and fair election!”
District Judge Indira Talwani concluded the directive trampled on states’ constitutional authority to run their own elections
Where are all those boot-licking states rights advocates? oh wait, they’re too busy prostrating themselves within the cult of a literal fascist child rapist.
Trump’s corruption of U.S. courts is complete.
Their goal is to send this to SCOTUS, who its kind of a coin flip as to whether they’ll side with the fascists.
This country is falling apart.
this one would end up at sc®otus regardless of lower courts’ actions.
How many negatives can a title contain? I honestly cannot tell if the ruling is a good or bad thing.
I honestly don’t know why the GOP are attacking mail-in ballots. I would guess the majority of mail-in ballot users are established older adults, a demographic that usually leans more red. If the GOP is successful in stopping mail-in ballots, won’t a higher percentage of their own voters be blocked from voting for the GOP?
Mail-in ballots are their own paper trail. Not only can they not be fucked with, they can be used to demonstrate electronic fuckery in the rest of the same election.
Every mail-in ballot (and early vote) is much harder to account for and manipulate when it comes to fucking an election as a whole. And they’ve been doing this since electronic voting was a thing. If you haven’t yet, you should definitely read Vanity Fair’s The Path to Florida which is a dissection of the Bush v. Gore fight in Florida. Be sure to note the negative 16,000 votes in Volusia County.
In their opinion, the appellate judges said the USPS had made a ‘strong showing that they will likely succeed’ on key legal arguments, including that the challenge to the rule was ‘neither constitutionally nor prudentially ripe for review.’ Put more plainly, the panel signalled that opponents of the policy might be suing too early, before the rule has actually gone into effect and produced concrete harms that courts traditionally require.
