Paper ballots are one of the most important security measures states can adopt.

Why Mail Ballots Are Secure: Layered Safeguards - Institute for Responsive Government #mailballots
https://responsivegov.org/research/why-mail-ballots-are-secure-layered-safeguards/

Supreme Court Will Decide If Mail-In Ballots Must Arrive by Election Day

https://murica.website/2025/11/supreme-court-will-decide-if-mail-in-ballots-must-arrive-by-election-day/

Via the #MeidasTouchNetwork @ 1:30amET on Aug 21, 2025

#DonaldTrump is preparing to sign a new #ExecutiveOrder that he hopes will do away with #MailInVoting, as he falsely claims #MailBallots can be manipulated and #VotingMachines are “highly inaccurate” in a bid to suppress the #vote and hold on to power. #AnthonyDavis reacts.

#StopTrump #VoterSupression

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6CdzwWm5F78&si=3CU0JR4PHR3wwT8s

A federal appeals court has upheld Texas’ requirement that potential voters must list their identification information in their application for a mail-in ballot.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/voting/2025/08/06/528026/federal-appeals-court-sides-with-texas-on-id-requirements-for-voting-by-mail/

#Court #News #Texas #Voting #AttorneyGeneralKenPaxton #MailBallots #TexasVoterId #TexasVoterIDCase #USFifthCircuitCourtOfAppeals #VotingInTexas

Privatizing the Post Office Would Be a Disaster
https://jacobin.com/2024/12/us-post-office-privatization-trump

* Trump confirmed he’s considering privatizing US Postal Service
* would be a big step in direction of a libertarian dystopia
* USPS Offers an Irreplaceable Public Service
* We Need a Bigger Public Postal Service

#JRE #JoeRogan #sycophants
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #MailBallots
#USPS #USmail #PostMaster #LouisDeJoy
#capitalization #privatization #libertarianism #billionaires #CharlesKoch #SPN #TFAS

Trump Confirms Extreme Plan to Demolish Postal Service
https://newrepublic.com/post/189454/trump-plan-demolish-postal-service

* USPS likely be on chopping block during Trump2 administration

Trump eyes privatizing U.S. Postal Service, citing financial losses
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/14/trump-usps-privatize-plan/

* Trump1 feuded w. USPS
* privatizing it could shake up consumer shipping & business supply chains

#USPS #USmail #LouisDeJoy
#MailBallots #ElectoralFraud
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism
#privatization #libertarianism #billionaires #CharlesKoch #SPN

After Reports Suggest Trump Seeks to Privatize USPS, Progressives Speak Out
https://truthout.org/articles/after-reports-suggest-trump-seeks-to-privatize-usps-progressives-speak-out
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/14/trump-usps-privatize-plan

* Trump “keen” for scheme that hands USPS to for-profit, private interests

#USPS #USmail #LouisDeJoy
#MailBallots #ElectoralFraud
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism
#privatization #libertarianism #billionaires #CharlesKoch #SPN

Trump considering United States Postal Service privatization: report
https://www.salon.com/2024/12/14/considering-united-states-postal-privatization-report
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/14/trump-usps-privatize-plan

* Trump1 went after UPS, threatening funding over mail-in ballots
* Trump2 discuss w. Cabinet nom. Howard Lutnick
* Lutnick: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113472645685562560
* Trump1 picked camp. donor DeJoy
* soured 2020 election re: mail ballots

#USPS #USmail #LouisDeJoy
#MailBallots #ElectoralFraud
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism
#privatization #libertarianism #billionaires #CharlesKoch #SPN

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[2020] One Billionaire vs. the Mail
https://persagen.org/docs/charles_koch-one-billionaire-versus-the-mail.html

* Charles Koch's 50-y war on US Postal Service

Louis DeJoy
https://persagen.org/docs/Louis_DeJoy.html

* DeJoy: Board Trustees, Koch-funded "Fund for American Studies"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fund_for_American_Studies
* State Policy Network

[2020] USPS at Grave Risk
https://persagen.org/docs/a-combination-of-forces-puts-our-postal-service-at-grave-risk.html

* Lisa Graves on attack on USPS

#USPS #USmail #PostMaster #LouisDeJoy
#MailDelivery #MailBallots
#capitalization #privatization #libertarianism #billionaires #CharlesKoch #SPN #TFAS

[thread] privatization: U.S. Postal Service
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service

* indep. agency, executive branch, U.S. federal gov't
* provides postal service in U.S., its insular areas & associated states
* one of few gov't agencies explicitly authorized by U.S. Constitution
* USPS competes against private package delivery services United Parcel Service, FedEx, DHL

#USPS #USmail #PostMaster #LouisDeJoy
#MailDelivery #MailBallots
#capitalization #privatization #libertarianism #CharlesKoch #SPN

“#US #PostalService touts timely delivery of #mailballots despite concerns from #electionofficials”

https://electionlawblog.org/?p=147576

Here’s the AP report on a 99.88% rate for delivery within one week of 99.22 million ballots. Along with the #USPS press release and more detailed report.

#Colorado #Cultists Arrested In #BallotFraud Scheme

A #postalworker and her friend were arrested Wednesday in connection with the forging of #stolen #mailballots in an alleged attempt to test the security of Colorado’s voting system. #Mailcarrier Vicki Lyn Stuart and Sally Jane Maxedon were arrested on suspicion of #identitytheft, attempt to influence a public servant and #forgery, according to their arrest affidavits.

https://www.joemygod.com/2024/11/colorado-cultists-arrested-in-ballot-fraud-scheme/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/colorado-postal-carrier-friend-accused-forging-stolen-mail-115586896

@thisisgww

#Nevada #MailBallots #SaveYourVote

@georgetakei A downside to mail voting: a controlling or abusive husband can insist on supervising his wife's vote, or even commit a felony by filling out her ballot himself.

There's a lot to be said for the comfort and convenience of voting by mail, as one graphic meme had it, "at your kitchen table, with a cat in your lap, and a big book of information about the candidates and ballot questions provided by the state."

There's also a lot to be said for the privacy of the voting booth.

#voting #VoteByMail #MailBallots #AbsenteeBallot #AbusiveRelationships #SecretBallot

The Oct. 25 deadline means mail-in ballots must be received by that date, not just postmarked.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/voting/2024/10/24/503992/the-deadline-to-apply-for-a-mail-in-ballot-for-nov-5-election-in-texas-is-friday/

#Election2024 #Elections #News #Voting #EarlyVoting #MailBallots #MailInBallots

Article is from 2020, but I think #USPS cancellation marks will be an issue this year too. Half the letters I get, including ones with actual stamps, arrive w/o a postmark. I know b/c I used to watch my mom soak stamps off envelopes and she'd save the pristine ones to use again. And now I do it, and I just reclaimed a dozen 1st class stamps.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/what-if-mail-ballots-arrive-after-election-day-without-postmark
#Elections2024 #mailballots

Another lawsuit seeks to throw out #MailBallots when their outer envelopes are undated or misdated, even if they arrive by #Election Day. If voters aren’t able to fix their mistakes, tens of thousands of ballots could be thrown out in #Pennsylvania.

“It is really a brazen voter suppression effort,” said Vic Walczak, #legal director of the ACLU of PA.

#law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #VoterSuppression #VotingRights #VoteBlue

Such a #SCOTUS ruling would have significant implications for the presidential race, as well as some closely fought congressional contests.

#Republicans are fighting over #MailBallots on many fronts even as the days dwindle until the Nov vote.

In #Pennsylvania, a battleground state that could decide the presidential #election, the #RNC last week filed a lawsuit arguing that voters should not get a chance to fix errors on their mail ballots to make sure their votes get counted.

#law #VoteBlue

At issue is a #Mississippi #law that allows #MailBallots to be counted if they arrive up to 5 days after Election Day & are postmarked by Election Day or earlier. 17 other states & DC, have laws allowing postmarked mail ballots to be counted if they arrive after #Election Day.

The case is one example of a nationwide effort by #Republicans to invalidate mail ballots over issues unrelated to whether they were cast by a legitimate voter.

#ElectionLaw #VoterSuppression #VotingRights #VoteBlue

The case in #Mississippi is one example of a nationwide effort by #Republicans to invalidate #MailBallots over issues unrelated to whether they were cast by a legitimate voter.

A panel of federal judges heard arguments Tues in a case that could upend the rules for counting a sliver of mail ballots in Mississippi just weeks before #Election Day, w/possible ramifications for all states.

#law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #VoterSuppression #VotingRights #VoteBlue
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/24/mississippi-mail-ballots-trump/