Postmaster General Confirms Plan to Hold Back Mail Ballots in States that won’t Share Voter Data

Does the constitution say that states must turn over absentee voter data in order to vote?

It’s illegal. Postmaster should be removed.

Earlier this year the Supreme Court just happened to rule that USPS can't be sued for not delivering mail.

A divided Supreme Court sided with the federal government on Tuesday in U.S. Postal Service v. Konan, a dispute over mishandled mail. Writing for a 5-4 majority, Justice Clarence Thomas explained that a law protecting the U.S. Postal Service from lawsuits over lost or miscarried mail bars lawsuits over mail that was intentionally misdelivered.

On Tuesday, the court sided with the government, holding that an intentional failure to deliver the mail falls within the FTCA’s postal exception. The ordinary meanings of both “miscarriage” and “loss” point the court to this conclusion, wrote Thomas in the majority opinion. “Because a ‘miscarriage’ includes any failure of mail to arrive properly, a person experiences a miscarriage of mail when his mail is delivered to his neighbor, held at the post office, or returned to the sender—regardless of why it happened,” he wrote. Similarly, “[w]hen Congress enacted the FTCA, the ‘loss’ of mail ordinarily meant a deprivation of mail, regardless of how the deprivation was brought about.”

One more reason to drop the ballot in a drop box if one is available to you.

I’ve been voting absentee for years and have never returned it through the post.

Fucking scum.

Use ballot drop boxes instead.

Kill 'em all.

The Hill is a little behind on this one. The court just struck down the EO and said postal service must continue to deliver ballots. In the article, Steiner claims he's going to follow whatever the court decides, so let's hope that's the case.

IDK what we're going to do in Oregon :( that's the only way we can vote.

States need to create a system where the ballots are mailed in a plain manila envelope, then.

Oh, guys there's a correction coming in... No, they didn't *back. What they meant was *black. Big big difference. Theyre holding black people's vote, they're holding, Latino and Hispanic and Asian votes. Don't worry, they're not holding back the vote. That's crazy talk!

So mail it in unmarked envelopes. Are you going to try to hold all mail for everyone? Or hold it to specific addresses?

The Fuckery Advances

Florida is like the shining example that blows up their narrative. It has a successful mail in ballot program. And it’s also been under Republican control some 3 decades.