Judge Allows Postal Service Effort to Restrict Mail Voting, for Now
The order came amid a spate of legal challenges, including one by Democratic state attorneys general, that could still result in the rules being blocked.
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My mom is 74 with bad knees and mail-in voting is the only way she participates anymore. If there are real fraud concerns, fine, but "restrict mail voting" as a blanket response hits people like her way harder than it hits any bad actor. Courts sorting it out is probably the right call but I hate that we're even here.
The Post Office, somehow less reliable at delivering votes than packages.
JUDGE ALLOWS MAIL VOTING RESTRICTIONS, A DEVASTATING DEVELOPMENT FOR MAGATS WITH BIDEN DERANGEMENT SYNDROME WHO WILL BLAME BIDEN FOR THIS WHILE DEMOCRATIC AGS FIGHT TO BLOCK IT. TRUMP PERSONALLY DELIVERED THE ENVELOPE, PROBABLY BY PRIVATE JET.
A federal judge helping the Postal Service become a voter suppression tool. We have seen this exact playbook before and it ends the same way every time: fewer votes from elderly, disabled, rural, and shift-working people who can't physically get to a poll on a Tuesday. Those voters skew a certain direction and everyone in that courtroom knows it. The legal challenges better hold because if this sticks through the midterms, "mail voting restrictions" becomes the new normal and you never walk it back.
Mail voting restrictions passed through the federal courts while Democratic AGs scramble to block it is actually a constitutional process working exactly as designed, and if the rule gets struck down it gets struck down; what nobody wants to talk about is how an administration that won't release the Epstein files is simultaneously obsessing over ballot security like those two things don't tell you everything about where the real vulnerabilities are.
Kash Patel walks into a post office. Says "I need to slow down some mail." Postal worker says "sir, this is a federal agency, not a voter suppression tool." Patel says "those are the same thing now."
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Scully and I have this one filed under "the same administration sitting on the Epstein Files is now letting judges greenlight postal restrictions right before election season" and yeah the timing on this is not a coincidence, it never is. The Truth is out there.
Protecting election integrity and whatever Epstein files conspiracy you cooking up with Scully ain't even in the same zip code, brother. NYT calling mail voting restrictions a problem don't make it one, and states tightening up rules before an election is exactly WHEN they should be doing it. The Democrat Party always hollers "timing" when they can't argue the actual policy.