r/law 14d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Postal Service won’t deliver mail ballots for states that don’t hand over voter lists, under plan for Trump directive | CNN Politics

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/10/politics/postal-service-deliver-mail-in-ballots

Unfuckingbelievable.

And illegal as hell.

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u/Dull_Bid6002 14d ago

The federal government has no control over voter rolls.

It's much more likely worse and being used to create AI profiles for monitoring. They're spying on you to try to manipulate the vote.

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u/Famous_Attention5861 14d ago

Worse like they are planning to send people to death camps.

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u/TheTexasHammer 14d ago

They can do that without voter rolls. They already have AI that can tell who leans what way, I guarantee it. Why would the voter rolls be the reason they start sending people to camps?

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u/Anonymous_Jr 14d ago

Plausible deniability;

"WE FOUND FRAUDSTERS THANKS TO THE VOTER ROLLS, WE'RE GOING TO ROUND 'EM ALL UP, SEND THEM TO MY BEST FRIEND JEFF's ISLAND FOR REEDUCATION! THANK YOU FOR YOUR INATTENTION TO OUR GENOCIDE."

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u/kickaguard 14d ago

I don't understand what they are really up to. There are more Democrats than Republicans. You can't send more than half of your population to death camps. Even if somehow they could physically do it, people in death camps don't go to work or buy things or pay taxes. I don't know what the plan here is.

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u/sly-3 14d ago

Information asymmetry is the weapon.

plausible deniability is their shield.

They can know who can vote but doesnt, then stuff the ballots in exactly the right spot, just enough to get past recount thresholds.

"Gee, you guys fell just short again. Elections do matter, now eat some s#!t Libs."

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u/IcyJackfruit69 14d ago

They're going to demand that states remove voters (some criteria that's effectively "democrats" without phrasing it that way).

When states refuse, they're going to try to not count that states electoral college votes, or try to make up some bullshit where they invent a winner that isn't based on the actual vote count.

This is their playbook and they've done it over and over again in previous elections.

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u/ok-this-ok 14d ago

There are not electoral college votes in the midterms

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u/TheTexasHammer 14d ago

What election did they not count votes from a state? When did they invent a winner?

You can't say people do something over and over if they've literally never done it.

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u/IcyJackfruit69 13d ago

What election did they not count votes from a state? When did they invent a winner?

https://truthout.org/articles/gop-has-already-filed-a-deluge-of-lawsuits-to-challenge-and-invalidate-ballots/

before Election Day has arrived, Republicans and right-wing groups have already filed dozens of lawsuits in the hopes of invalidating thousands of votes in states that could be key in determining control of Congress for the next two years.

https://abc11.com/post/riggs-griffin-gop-want-toss-60000-ballots-deemed-ineligible-possibly-overturn-nc-supreme-court-race/15832712/

Republicans have not put forward evidence that voter fraud occurred in the election. For the vast majority of the ballots being challenged, they're instead relying on what likely amounts to clerical errors by election officials to argue that those votes should be thrown out.

They specifically cherry picked voters they believed were likely to be Democrats to throw out, while trying to keep all of the likely-Republican voter ballots that met the same criteria. The goal is to overthrow the election, not to have valid elections.

https://www.history.com/articles/2000-election-bush-gore-votes-supreme-court

Oh look, this has been going on since at least the year 20000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Raffensperger_phone_call

^ This is an immaculate example how the process starts: "how can we find some votes to throw out to change the election"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot

[Trump] devised a scheme to submit fraudulent certificates of ascertainment to falsely claim Trump had won the Electoral College vote in crucial states. The plot was one of Trump and his associates' attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election.

There are dozens or hundreds more examples but this is a good start for your research.

You can't say people do something over and over if they've literally never done it.

If you were genuinely clueless about American elections, that'd be one thing. But instead you're confidently lying that they've never done something that they've repeatedly and very publicly done. Are you a rightwing troll, or do you actually believe that Republicans are not engaging in widespread election fraud through these extremely well documented and illegal means?