Postal Service leaders proposed a rule letting them refuse to deliver your ballot if your state won’t give Trump its voter rolls.
States would enroll their mail voters in a new federal portal, and ballot envelopes that don’t match the government’s list get returned to sender. The ballot your county mails to you never arrives. Letter carriers’ union leaders are concerned, and their president says the draft means the Postal Service would simply refuse a noncompliant state’s election mail.
Trump spent Thursday in the Oval Office threatening to take back Washington and run it federally if voters in Tuesday’s primary nominate a mayoral candidate he doesn’t like. The postal rule and his threat make the same demand: your elections run on his approval. The Constitution requires states to run elections. It gives the president no role at all.
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Source: The New York Times [gift link]
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