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according to this video, ballots in the mail are being "slowed down" Right Now by USPS, which just happens to be affect mostly liberals in a red state.
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@rayckeith I've heard that this is actually a possible foot-shooting. That is, that GOP voters are less likely, given the rules, to go to a polling place, and more likely, given the rules, to do a mail vote anyway.
that's my take
all if this is going to hurt republican and rural republicans more than anyone
@samiamsam @rayckeith I think we don't know for sure. But I think it's not obvious, either way.
this particular video notes the slow mail is intended for students at a liberal university
also, USPS used to stamp the date the mail was received at a post office on the envelope -- now it stamps the date that the mail was PROCESSED on the envelope... which can be days later.
combined with recent Supreme Court decision that valid vote-by-mail has to have the election-day date-stamp on it
this could mean that post office workers who are not allowed to work overtime on election day, may not be able to process all the received vote-by-mail envelopes by the end of their workday... meaning possibly large numbers of mail-in-ballots received on election day would not be date-stamped on election day.
and if the ballots were late to get to the voters they could be late to vote.
Places like Oregon could end up with much lower voting numbers than usual. though... voters who know about this USPS thing can drop the ballots at the drop-boxes to avoid the second trip through the mail.
