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This seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (USPS postmark rule change) (lemmy.zip)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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If you want to vote by mail please do so as soon as you can and consider dropping it off at the counter where they will postmark it right away.

Also if you live in a state where you're allowed to photograph your ballot consider doing so to have proof you voted a certain way.

Note that as a counterpoint the federal register website claims they are just clarifying language to improve public understanding: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/12/2025-15266/postmarks-and-postal-possession

I didn't check that document very closely yet.

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[–] 69 points 10 months ago (7 children)

If you don't know when it is going to be stamped, then you cannot possibly plan accordingly. Trying to be early to get around the unreliable time frame isn't planning accordingly, it is just guessing.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Especially when they're sure to find ways to demolish post office processing times around election seasons specifically to kill mailed in ballots.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    This isn't relevant, even when we've been slammed local offices separate the ballots and bring them to a hub or county seat if it's within a week of an election. Postal workers actually care about doing their jobs.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    It isn't relevant, yet, but we're seeing changes in how these things are made to work that are decidedly deleterious to the reliability of mail in voting, and you're deluded if you think they're going to stop now. Even questions of legality are at best peripheral to this administration, more interference WILL be coming, and it won't be something that Postal workers simply caring about their jobs will be able to resolve.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Postal workers actually care about doing their jobs.

    Next step will be to get rid of those people by any means possible...

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    There's a sort of inertia within the organization, you both can't get rid of those people nor make them care more than they currently do. I think management has been trying to kill them off for decades. :)

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