Colorado will still mail out all ballots, despite Supreme Court ruling in favor of President Trump’s order
https://www.denverpost.com/2026/08/26/colorado-impact-supreme-court-mail-ballot-ruling/
https://www.denverpost.com/2026/08/26/colorado-impact-supreme-court-mail-ballot-ruling/
21 Comments
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 1d
We've had vote by mail for a very long time here in Colorado.
The stupid right wing chuds, even in this state, decided to politicize vote by mail, especially around Covid. They were super-salty - and still are - about other states even temporarily having vote by mail during a freaking pandemic. They think something was taken from them by this.
What every person should have learned from the pandemic was that every state should have vote by mail, because it works.
Nope, instead, all the Karens cheered the fact that states that had it temporarily yanked it away ASAP, and are still trying to retcon the 2020 election AND steal away the right from states already have it.
Conservatives are a poison. They ruin everything.
JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 23h
"They think something was taken from them by this."
Oh, but something was. Voter suppression. That's why Biden got so many votes.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 22h
Fair point. They view their conservative privileges as a right and when they get de-privileged, they tend to misinterpret that as being disenfranchised.
JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 22h
It doesn't help that they ain't smart enough to know how dumb they are.
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 23h
Conservatism is fascism. Always has been. The only good conservative is a dead one.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
Don't besmirch the names of the good people named Karen.
macaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 23h
I only know of people named Karen who are nice.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 23h
Same, that's exactly my point.
velma@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1d
Karen is the new "bitch".
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
Nothing new about it. Also insulting to literally every Karen I've met.
velma@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1d
Fair, I'm showing my age by feeling like it's new. It's the newest iteration that I've heard adopted in the mainstream as a slur against women.
santa@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 22h
They even ruin poison.
RunningInRVA@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 1d
For awareness this article is from late August and does not mean the SCOTUS has responded to Trump’s most recent request to gargle his balls.
CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 1d
Yeah, I thought this meant that SCOTUS responded, but they have not yet.
EonNShadow@pawb.social · 20 pts · 1d
As a Colorado resident, voting "by mail" as in, receiving a ballot in the mail and then dropping it at a ballot drop box, has been the only way I've ever voted.
It's a great, low-friction system. I've never dealt with crowds nor had any trouble with ballot box access.
The only issue I can imagine coming up is people without a mailing address, but we do have traditional polling places (that are much less crowded) for that reason.
We need these fascists out and we need this system adopted nation-wide to give more people their voices.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 22h
Agreed. I've mailed it a few times, most of the time dropped it off. It's a beautiful system. I hate it so much that the bloated toad in the WH has any fucking possibility of threatening it.
Anyway, yeah, all cons need to be flushed and a bare minimum should be established, as the cons would rather have situations where they can orchestrate long wait times under miserable conditions in the "wrong" districts.
Every state should have voters given a no-excuse option to get a ballot mailed to them or they could print one out (Colorado needs this part), that they then can drop off or mail back. It needs to be enshrined into law that the USPS can not be directed to interfere with these in any way, shape or form.
Every state needs to have a bare minimum of drop boxes and polling places, adjusted by population density in a given region. Possibly measure average wait times every election and if they hit some threshold (say, over twenty minutes), they have to add another polling place next election.
Every state must offer early voting, with the minimum number of days in that window set at 30 days.
The idea that some states still require in-person voting the day of the election is absolutely ludicrous.
EonNShadow@pawb.social · 4 pts · 18h
Colorado also has a system called BallotTrax iirc that lets us know if our ballot has been counted. Other places should do that too. It's great.
My only other criticism of our system is that we don't have ranked choice voting, but we'll get there.
The ballot measure for it a couple years ago failed because honestly it wasn't worded in a way that people understood what they were voting for
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 16h
If they update the language level requirements, that may help.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 17h
All states will, that's not the problem. The problem is that after the ballots are filled out and mailed back, the USPS will run the bar codes from each one against their own "APPROVED" list, and if a bar code isn't on the list, they will reject the ENTIRE BATCH, which could be as many as 10,000 ballots.
Nobody has seen this Approved List, nobody knows who made the list, what data the lists were compiled from, who is in charge of the list, who is in charge of this program, what's going to happen to the rejected ballots - anything.
So states can send out their ballots, people can fill them out and send them back, but you will never be sure if your vote ever got counted. Unless MAGA does well this election, then you'll know.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 16h
I thought they may not mail them out, either. If they mail them out, and the state has drop boxes, well, we still have (relatively) easy voting.
If they don't even mail them to the voter, that's even worse.
misterztrite@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 16h
Why wouldn't you know? In Kansas I am able to logon to a website and it tracks the ballot. It would tell me if it was received and if it was accepted or rejected.
Do the rest of the states not have that?