From the article:

The U.S. Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a huge win Monday by allowing an executive order designed to sharply curtail mail voting to go into effect — a move California and other Democratic-led states have warned could thrust the midterm elections into chaos.

Rushing through unprecedented changes to the mail voting system will be especially challenging for California, where more than 80% of voters use mail ballots and every registered voter receives a ballot by mail.

In an unsigned ruling, apparently by a 6-3 vote, the court said the states would not show they would be harmed by the restrictions on mail voting and therefore lacked legal standing to challenge it in court.

Nothing good ever comes about from making things harder for people to vote.

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[–] 72 points 2 months ago (8 children)

The blue states just need to enact malicious compliance. They could declare a floating public holiday called voting day, pay electoral staff penalty rates and make it a law that all workers required to work that day are given paid time off to attend a nearby voting station. They could setup a time slot booking system that lets people nominate a voting station and a timeslot with information about how many people are attending at that time so they can make informed decisions about when to attend. Could they impose a tarrif (apparently it's not a tax) on political parties so that a percentage of their donations need to go to supporting the local elections. Republican billionaires want to buy elections? Whoops all democracy.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    hakeem jeffries doesn’t believe in voting day. or medicare for all.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Luckily he's federal so hopefully the state governments are a little less gutless

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    The political class will be living high off the hog with superior federal benefits, while singing off and enabling anything the Heritage Foundation and the Christofacists want. Sure the establishment dems will make some performative grumblings, but it’s all an act to placate their old voting base and give an illusion of democracy, right?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Me being from germany I think it is just wild how voting day in the US can be just a random day of the week where you then also have to take a day off in order to vote, most likely. In germany election days are ALWAYS on a Sunday, so the vast majority of people don't need to waste a vacation day.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Pretty sure Australia is always a Saturday, we also have compulsory voting. We do have the American conservatives and one of the local billionaires trying to sway our elections with some bile filled troll of dubious moral value, but that's a whole different problem which is somewhat mitigated by ensuring the whole voting age population votes. We could definitely improve our politicians accountability and general voter education on civics.

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  • [–] 94 points 2 months ago

    Stupid fucks overthrowing democracy off of a technicality.

    If we do not prosecute and hang 4-10 people in particular for treason then we have failed.

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  • [–] 48 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Another obscenely fascist sycophantic ruling from the morally destitute GOP majority on the US Supreme Court

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  • [–] 23 points 2 months ago

    Fuck the Supreme clownshow, the damn dictatorship enablers

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Can we kill them now? Like if they keep taking away our rights are they really rights anymore?

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    If it's this easy to "overthrow a democracy", you never had a democracy.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Right?! It only took a superpower and a significant fraction of the world's wealth (tied up in billionaires) and complete control over the media and a blackmail network built-out over several generations, all orchestrated over half a century, to do it!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Your point saying it was easy to overthrow, was that it was hard to overthrow?

    As to your second point, yes capitalism hurt person. Nothing is strong enough to withstand those kind of attacks though. If there was any form of government yet invented that could, it would have been tried at some point and we'd still have it.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Unsigned ruling what the fuck. Put your names on your votes, pussies

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    If you know anyone that still supports this admin fart in there general direction

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    They're taking away my speech with their intimidation tactics with ICE/FBI.

    They've now taken away my ballot box with this blatant unconstitutional ruling from a bunch of corrupt Republicans.

    What do conservatives say about that other box again?

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    People have the rhetoric of turning to the ammo box since the other 3 don't seem to work anymore, but there doesn't seem to be much coming about from it. If the rhetoric isn't actually materializing, then people must be consenting to having their rights taken away. In that case, the ballot box is delivering exactly what the people want.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Sharing information is a whole hell of a lot more useful than whatever it is you think you're doing.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    And really the people here reading that comment are aware people. Keyboard warriors are not the problem. It’s the droves of unaware or uncaring folk out there that are the problem. Media (the wealthy) do not want them to know, so they remain unaware or ambivalent whilst democracy gets ripped and torn to shreds for profit and power. Blech.

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