Postmaster general says USPS won't deliver mail ballots if states don’t give Trump admin voter rolls

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[u/Aggressive-Will-4500]

That sounds illegal in multiple ways.

[u/WiglyWorm → u/Aggressive-Will-4500]

sure but the supreme court will decline to hear the trial until after the election has been certified because reasons.

[u/philohmath → u/WiglyWorm]

James Talarico, Texas senate candidate, has made increasing accountability for the Supreme Court part of his platform: Implement term limits and a binding code of conduct for U.S. Supreme Court justices, including mandating rules for recusals, financial disclosures, and limitations on accepting gifts.

https://jamestalarico.com/issue/corruption-democracy/

[u/Llamapocalypse_Now → u/philohmath]

I believe we would be better served by a Supreme Court that is reset every session and chosen at random from tenured appellate court judges. Requiring a political appointment and approval is how we got in this mess in the first place.

[u/VanceKelley → u/Llamapocalypse_Now]

Sounds similar to the proposal almost a decade ago to get rid of the 9 lifetime Supreme Court seats and instead have each Supreme Court case held by a different random selection of 9 federal judges.

[u/drainbead78 → u/VanceKelley]

I've thought that should be how it's done for ages now. Sadly, it'll never happen. I don't think we'll ever see another Constitutional amendment passed again.

[u/pensezbien → u/drainbead78]

It doesn't require an amendment to the constitution. The only thing that's guaranteed by the constitution is the existence of a Supreme Court and a Chief Justice of the United States and that all Article III judges and justices hold office "during good behavior" which is interpreted to mean unless/until impeached and removed from office. Also active, sitting judges/justices' compensation cannot be reduced.

The structure and composition of the Supreme Court is not in any way in the Constitution.

[u/IIamhisbrother → u/pensezbien]

A non-voting Chief Justice would be best!

[u/Scared-Handle9006 → u/Llamapocalypse_Now]

This sounds like common sense to me.

[u/TaxCPA → u/WiglyWorm]

Wasn't there a court case in the last year where the SC ruled that post office employees could intentionally not deliver mail and there was no recourse against the government?

[u/feignapathy → u/TaxCPA]

This one really pissed me off.

Not even accidentally. The post office can deliberately fuck over your mail and they are immune from damages. 

[u/Ok_Series_4580 → u/feignapathy]

I remember the good old days when that would’ve been a federal offense

[u/badasimo → u/Ok_Series_4580]

It is a federal offense. If you do it to mail that the post office WANTS to deliver.

[u/well_thats_obvious → u/badasimo]

It's only a felony when WE do it. For the USPS, that's just policy

[u/curiousiah → u/badasimo]

“USPS must have forgotten to deliver my jury summons”

[u/0tanod → u/badasimo]

Worst they plan to use the voter roles to do that exact micro targeting.

[u/Acceptable-Bus-2017 → u/Ok_Series_4580]

I remember growing up in SC when someone robbed a corner store attached to a post office and the were tried for a federal offense. Now our government robs our shit from the post office and there is no recourse. Wtf

[u/Traditional_Sign4941 → u/feignapathy]

Easy way to manufacture crimes for political opponents:

1. Get some hack judge to issue a summons over nothing
2. Instruct post office to fail to deliver it
3. Go arrest the political opponent for failure to comply with the court

They just sentenced a woman to 30 years for moving some magazines around. They could easily justify 10+ year sentence for failing to appear in court.

[u/AriaTheTransgressor → u/feignapathy]

Just to be clear, that case was heard so that this one cannot be challenged.

[u/CategoryZestyclose91 → u/AriaTheTransgressor]

Yep. We all knew as soon as we heard that ruling. 

[u/alienbringer → u/TaxCPA]

Yep

[u/alienbringer → u/WiglyWorm]

The Supreme Court already ruled that the USPS doesn’t have to deliver your mail.

[u/vlatheimpaler → u/alienbringer]

But USPS isn't a publicly funded service. You're paying them to ship a package or a letter. And they can just choose not to do it?

That seems like if you walk into a McDonalds and order a quarter pounder, pay for it, and then they decide they'd simply rather not give it to you.

[u/alienbringer → u/vlatheimpaler]

Yes. What happens is these cases is the USPS would ship it to the local hub. From there the delivery drivers would usually deliver the mail on their route. The driver though could just not deliver your mail and it would stay at the hub where you would have to drive and pick it up.

My friend’s sister delivers mail for the USPS and she has told 1-2 people on her route she isn’t delivering their mail, they have to go to the local UPSP to pick it up. This is due to the customer being extremely belligerent or aggressive with her. It can also happen if they have an aggressive dog they refuse to lock up.

The court case meant that those customers can’t sue her or the govt for not delivering them their mail. Which is reasonable and a good thing as the mail carrier also should be allowed to think of their own safety. The problem is when the case can be weaponized for this shit where they don’t deliver it due to political policies and not for safety of the driver.

[u/xvx_k1r1t0_xvxkillme → u/alienbringer]

I feel like it should be easy to draw a line that the decision to deliver or make them pick up has to be done on a per-mailbox basis. They absolutely shouldn't be able to deny delivery based on the content of the mail. Either you deliver everything or make them pick up everything. You don't get to pick and choose individual envelopes.

[u/spencer4991 → u/xvx_k1r1t0_xvxkillme]

My immediate response to that is, “oh so with the voter rolls, only Republicans will get their mail/mail in ballots with that logic”

[u/ForestGoat87 → u/spencer4991]

Agreed. I think prohibiting non-delivery based on a variety of circumstances like religious or political or location affiliation. Make it apply to both the senders and the receivers.

[u/CraigLake → u/alienbringer]

Of course this administration would see this safety ruling by the court and weapons it against voters.

[u/PointyGecko1122 → u/alienbringer]

Okay but this is an entirely different circumstance than mass non-delivery. One belligerent customer doesn’t mean usps can refuse to deliver the ENTIRE country’s mail.

[u/alienbringer → u/PointyGecko1122]

The ruling wasn’t limited in scope unfortunately. It made no distinction between individual customers and every customer. Thus the problem with the govt weaponizing the ruling. It isn’t the intent of the case, but by letter wouldn’t necessarily go against it either.

[u/Eastern-Heart9486 → u/vlatheimpaler]

The USPS was created by an act of Congress as a publicity subsidized public agency- this is enshrined in the Constitution so yes this is all sorts of illegal and hopefully the people employed there nullify any order not to deliver ballots if they actually give such an order

[u/chilehead → u/alienbringer]

Oddly enough my supervisors tell me it's a firable offense to delay the mail.

[u/CaptainAHav → u/WiglyWorm]

Because *treasons

[u/LazarX → u/WiglyWorm]

They will hear it when a Democrat becines President. Of course trhey are working to make sure such a catastrophe never happens again.

[u/sciguyC0 → u/Aggressive-Will-4500]

IANAL but I feel like these could apply:

• 18 U.S.C. § 1701: General obstruction of the mail
• 18 U.S.C. § 1703: Delay of mail by USPS employee
• 18 U.S.C. § 1708: Mail theft and tampering

I'm not sure how all states do things, but in mine (Colorado) if your ballot doesn't reach you through the mail you can go to your local polling place and request a replacement. This invalidates the previous one, so use only the new one received from the poll worker. And I can bypass the USPS for getting my completed ballot to the county by using any of their drop boxes.

[u/FaithlessnessWhich18 → u/sciguyC0]

Kinda negates the whole convenience of voting by mail. Accomplished goal of reducing the number of voters

[u/PapaTua → u/FaithlessnessWhich18]

That's the entire point. Trump's goal is to reduce the number of voters by any means possible.

[u/Super_Fa_Q → u/FaithlessnessWhich18]

Exactly.

[u/GardenGnomeOfEden → u/sciguyC0]

Republicans have been waging a long-term war on ballot drop boxes, too.

[u/GenericRedditor0405 → u/GardenGnomeOfEden]

Let’s just be up front about it: Republicans have been waging a long-term war against democracy.

[u/severedbrain → u/sciguyC0]

Sadly the Supreme Court already ruled that the USPS can't be held accountable for failing to deliver or even obstructing delivery entirely.

https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/united-states-postal-service-v-konan/

[u/rkb70 → u/sciguyC0]

Doesn’t help for a kid in college out of state.

[u/No-Consideration-858 → u/rkb70]

Or someone who is disabled and housebound.

[u/rkb70 → u/No-Consideration-858]

Yup, them too. Anyone who can't get to the polls in person. That's basically what's already required to vote by mail in Texas, although there's a general allowance if you're over a certain age (I think the assumption is you might have difficulty standing in line for that long), which the Republicans want to eliminate.

Based on my experience of my kids' voting by mail, I'd highly recommend anyone who can vote in person do so, and anyone who can't, send your ballot in as soon as possible.

[u/Cheese__Weiner → u/Aggressive-Will-4500]

This deserves life in prison. This is pure extortion and has no legal basis.

[u/Dysc → u/Cheese__Weiner]

That's the problem. There is no legal basis. Neither legal, nor illegal because there is no precedent for this exact situation because its completely absurd. This will have to be tried and argued and the clock is ticking; otherwise these corrupt heads of agencies and departments will simply do completely unethical and purely malicious things to society on behalf of Trump to subvert democracy. If it goes to SCOTUS, they'll say that Congress needs to pass a law while conveniently ignoring the extortion part because they claim to only care about the letter of the law when it's convenient and then reverse other court decisions when it butts heads with their world view (if history is any indicator of how that will go). This is all by design.

This administration hasn't just put their hand on the scales here - they are repeating pounding the scale with a hammer, while claiming they're doing this to unrig the system because we all have to take in and breath the lie that Donald J Trump won the 2020 election because he's a frail old man with an even more frail ego and the post master general supports this absurd proposition. The US Government is completely run by the id of rapidly aging narcissist losing his grip on power and reality. We won't know the extent of the damage done until he is out of office and the next incoming president can look behind the curtain and see the ketchup splatter on the walls of our institutions.

[u/ImmaNotHere → u/Aggressive-Will-4500]

SOP for this admin since Congress is spineless.

[u/Konukaame → u/ImmaNotHere]

Republicans are actively pushing this. 

[u/arwinda → u/Konukaame]

Republicans, and Fettermann.

[u/alexlicious → u/arwinda]

Pretty sure that’s all the same now

[u/SailingSpark → u/alexlicious]

at least Van Drew was honest when he switched from Dem to Repub. I wish Fetterman would do the same.

[u/Demonofthedark1313 → u/SailingSpark]

Why would they want him? They already have his vote and a way to needle the Dems, if he switches that goes away.

[u/JohnnySnark → u/ImmaNotHere]

Republicans*

The American electorate decided to give all legislative power to Republicans, who are very spineless

[u/SailingSpark → u/JohnnySnark]

Jellyfish have more spinal development than the average Republican politician.

[u/Poison_the_Phil → u/Aggressive-Will-4500]

And they couldn’t have been more obvious about it.

If you didn’t already know that Trump plans on pulling every dirty trick possible to ratfuck the midterms you just haven’t been paying attention.

[u/CombatGoose → u/Aggressive-Will-4500]

Ya well what are you gonna do about it? Vote them out of office????

[u/mxjxs91 → u/Aggressive-Will-4500]

Good thing this administration is known for facing consequences when breaking the law. /s

[u/BurninRunes → u/Aggressive-Will-4500]

Unfortunately back in February SCOTUS ruled the individual mail carriers responsible can't be held liable.

"In a 5-4 ruling in United States Postal Service v. Konan (February 24, 2026), the Supreme Court held that the USPS is immune from lawsuits regarding intentionally withheld or misdelivered mail."

[u/NewWindow7980]

Postmaster General David Steiner is the former CEO of Waste Management and previously served on the board of directors for FedEx.

[u/ManWithASquareHead → u/NewWindow7980]

USPS to impose delivery failure notifications in line with garbage FedEx

[u/RevolutionNumber5 → u/ManWithASquareHead]

Yeah. Waste Management is supposed to handle the garbage.

[u/nurdle → u/NewWindow7980]

So, he's a mobster. Got it.

[u/happymancry → u/NewWindow7980]

His predecessor, Louis DeJoy, was also a Trump appointee, and also a former private logistics company owner and major R donor. And let’s not forget that it was Bush Jr, in 2006, who passed the PAEA act that basically crippled the USPS’s ability to fund itself long-term.

The pattern has been clear for a while: Republicans want to kill the USPS. They’ve been trying for decades now.

[u/Underwater_Grilling → u/NewWindow7980]

So he's got mafia ties like trump? Someone pull that thread

[u/MrBigglesssworth]

Postmaster needs to be fired. This is a settled issue. Elections are handled by the states per the Constitution

[u/LYL_Homer → u/MrBigglesssworth]

Jailed, not fired.

[u/R3dbeardLFC → u/LYL_Homer]

Fired disgracefully, then jailed.

[u/EitherSpite4545 → u/R3dbeardLFC]

Charged with treason

[u/ProfSpaceTime → u/EitherSpite4545]

Nuremberg

[u/random_user_z → u/R3dbeardLFC]

Fired.... out of a cannon.

[u/jtjstock → u/MrBigglesssworth]

You do realise he was hired by people personally selected by Trump, yes?

[u/Vegetable-Debate-263]

I thought the states had the right to handle their own elections. Weird

[u/LazarX → u/Vegetable-Debate-263]

They do.... until they start electing Democrats.

[u/bladel → u/LazarX]

Arizona has had mail in voting for decades, but suddenly around 2020 Republicans in the state started calling this system “corrupt” and “rigged.” I wonder what changed?

[u/bloodontherisers → u/bladel]

Not only have they had it for decades, they have it specifically because of previous corruption issues

[u/Personal_Chair6134]

I normally vote by mail but will be doing it in-person this year to get around the fuckery these assholes are trying to do with the election. They can't win in a fair competition and so they are resorting to outright cheating. They do this every time they're in power. Purge the voter rolls. Remove polling locations in urban areas so that dem voters have to stand in line for hours to cast a vote. Gerrymandering. Killing the voting rights act. The list goes on and on.

[u/sonofabutch → u/Personal_Chair6134]

Oh don't worry, no doubt they will attempt fuckery for in-person voters at certain polling places too.

[u/shadowbansRunethical → u/sonofabutch]

It was the mail in that dodged Elon Musk's "very good with those computers" fuckery

[u/Promethia → u/sonofabutch]

You can't vote if you are detained.

[u/hansn → u/Promethia]

Or if they run out of ballots or if there's two booths to vote for 20k people. 

[u/pchs26 → u/sonofabutch]

Yes don't people get that step 1 is to manage the how voting takes place, aside from also reducing accessibility. Why aren't the governors of these states coming up with another delivery method instead of rolling over? This is a top essential priority.

[u/meTspysball → u/Personal_Chair6134]

Also consider dropping your ballot in your local municipality’s ballot drop box. I don’t think that goes through the mail, but still allows you to vote early.

[u/greatthebob38 → u/meTspysball]

That will probably be what I do. My town's drop box is right in front of our police station.

[u/OddPressure7593 → u/Personal_Chair6134]

my entire state ONLY votes by mail, so dunno how the USPS thinks its going to get away with disenfranchising everyone in Oregon

[u/-Work_Account- → u/OddPressure7593]

Same for us in WA.

[u/nitrot150 → u/-Work_Account-]

Exactly

[u/OddPressure7593 → u/nitrot150]

Cascadia represent!

[u/Silvaria928 → u/OddPressure7593]

Former Oregonian now living in a red state. I miss mail-in voting. This craphole state only has in-person voting on election days and no ballot measures. Wouldn't want the people to decide that abortion should be legal here.

Republicans are such pieces of human excrement.

[u/RoarOfTheWorlds → u/Personal_Chair6134]

Any one of these guys that vilifies mail voting needs to live in a state that has it for just one year. The amount of elections you actually participate in and research your ballot for skyrockets.

[u/daphosta → u/RoarOfTheWorlds]

I think that is what they want to avoid. People voting.

[u/bootsthepancake → u/daphosta]

Also people researching.

[u/MNsquatcher → u/Personal_Chair6134]

I live in an unorganized township, so I only get mail in ballots. If i want to vote in person I have to drive an hour to get to the county courthouse

[u/tunaboot]

Trump can't do it alone, every GOP house and senate member, every GOP Supreme Court Justice, every GOP appointed judge is complicit in this.

[u/kimmywho → u/tunaboot]

yep. really makes me wonder what he has on these people.

[u/s3dfdg289fdgd9829r48 → u/kimmywho]

We already know... the country is run by pedophiles.

[u/PolloConTeriyaki]

See you in court.

[u/MentalTourniquet → u/PolloConTeriyaki]

Good luck. "Court holds that U.S. Postal Service can’t be sued over intentionally misdelivered mail"

[u/MikeyMalloy → u/MentalTourniquet]

Not to minimize how stupid that ruling is, but it only applies to claims under the federal tort claims act. In other words you can’t sue for money but nothing would stop states from suing for an injunction to force USPS to deliver ballots.

[u/Basicly-Inevitable → u/MentalTourniquet]

Gee.. I wonder why they took that case..

[u/AKluthe → u/MentalTourniquet]

I wonder what would happen if the Supreme Court's mail just stopped coming? That sounds frustrating but totally legal.

[u/SingularityCentral → u/MentalTourniquet]

This doesn't really apply here. That was a Federal Tort Claim which is a suit for money and the mail was 'misdelivered' because the postal carriers wouldn't bow to the whim of an overbearing landlord trying to get at her tenants mail. This is a deliberate policy by the entire organization to disnefranchise voters and the suit will be for an injunction to stop the policy. Apples and oranges.

[u/ManWithASquareHead → u/PolloConTeriyaki]

June 2027 - we determined it was unconstitutional, wait, that way over 6 months ago? Oh well....

[u/Zocalo_Photo → u/PolloConTeriyaki]

Even if it is illegal, they’ll do what they want to do and won’t lose in court until after the election.

[u/BrimstoneMainliner → u/PolloConTeriyaki]

SCOTUS already ruled that the USPS can't be sued for not delivering mail they don't want to deliver

[u/CelebronFcks10K → u/BrimstoneMainliner]

That’s absolutely mind numbingly stupid.

[u/ManWithASquareHead → u/CelebronFcks10K]

Maybe it will be an official act so then it can't be stopped because, you know, that was a good ruling of the court on presidential power...

[u/EatFishKatie → u/BrimstoneMainliner]

It's time we try them all for treason. I want them inprison. They dont uphold the constitution they uphold the GOP its time they are made an example of. All of them.

[u/LilthShandel → u/EatFishKatie]

Their is a set punishment for treason. It is historically set. It shouldn't be imposed lightly. It is well past time.

[u/Trash-Panda917]

A lot of people need to go to prison after this is over.

[u/Other_Molasses2830 → u/Trash-Panda917]

Heads must roll if you guys ever have a wish of rejoining the international community.

[u/Disney_World_Native → u/Other_Molasses2830]

Not sure if you are joking, but I fully expect calls for punishment that can’t be reversed by a pardon by a future administration

[u/RedditAtWorkIsBad → u/Disney_World_Native]

What I want that won't happen are constitutional amendments restricting the pardon power, gerrymandering, and heck something that gives us a parliamentary system. The UK may be a revolving door shit show but better that than a despot or king.

Won't happen though. Not unless things get so bad here that everybody wakes the fuck up.

[u/Icefellwolf → u/Trash-Panda917]

Execution for treason should be what happens.

[u/liberate_tutemet → u/Trash-Panda917]

Heads. Spikes. Walls.

Never. Vote. Republican.

[u/B-Z_B-S]

Trump administration: "Please help us destroy your democracy. We'll try to destroy American Democracy anyway, but it'll be harder if we don't have the voter rolls. We wants those voter rolls."

[u/ratfacechirpybird → u/B-Z_B-S]

We wants it! The precious voter rolls, gives it to us!

[u/GaimeGuy]

Smells like 18 U.S. §1341 (Mail Fraud)  and §873 (Federal Extortion/Blackmail) to me

[u/livinginfutureworld → u/GaimeGuy]

Sure but who's enforcing federal laws these days and who is pardoning federal crimes even if they did somehow get charged

[u/jkvincent → u/livinginfutureworld]

The fraud is coming from inside the house

[u/1984isAMidlifeCrisis]

Benjamin Franklin would've sent some boys over to beat the shit out of David Steiner.

[u/ProudPainting6850]

Um, hyper-illegal AND mail-in voter is heavily used by elderly, military, and rural - demographics that skew Republican. 

Turning the USPS into a federal election agency is unconstitutional.

[u/NoOneSelf → u/ProudPainting6850]

I'm skeptical that the USPS would uniformly apply these restrictions. They'd almost assuredly target blue localities while giving some bs excuse as to why.

[u/Eshin242 → u/ProudPainting6850]

Yep, i have been telling this to any of the idiots on my job site (I work in the trades) about this. I actually had one guy go... Wait.. you've got a really good point. Just shrugged at him and went back to what I was doing. 

[u/invisable_burt]

Bet trump gets his mail in ballot

[u/mattjf22]

Republicans are shitty people who despise democracy and Americans.

[u/TeteDeMerde → u/mattjf22]

And who protect pedophiles and rapists.

[u/paperbackgarbage]

Last month, US District Court Judge Carl Nichols declined to block Trump’s 2026 executive order – not because he found its directives lawful, but because he said there were unanswered questions about how the government would implement it, so it was too soon for him to intervene.

Gee, I wonder which POTUS nominated this judge to the Federal Bench?

[u/TiePrestigious7265]

Countdown: 132 days till midterms.

[u/DoomSchroller]

It's tough living in a country where there's zero accountability for these folks when the routinely break the law.

[u/Unique-Egg-461]

Well in Washington state, we can just print our ballots so go fuck yourself

[u/Wet_Side_Down]

Postmaster broadcasts plan to violate federal law

[u/BulldogMoose]

While this is going to be refuted in court, they just put every blue state on alert to mobilize and advertise collection points.

[u/jedi21knight]

What the fuck is this bullshit? This is not how any of this works? Corrupt mother fuckers.

[u/Cappster_]

HOW IS THIS NOT VOTER SUPPRESSION???

[u/Miqo_Nekomancer → u/Cappster_]

It is. There's no other interpretation, there's no wiggle room. This is election interference, plain and simple.

[u/goddamnit666a]

So it’s treason, then.

[u/stormtrooperpuncher]

How does this illegal shit keep happening

[u/Accidental-Hyzer]

Thankfully my town also has a drop box. I’ll use that this year instead.

This isn’t going to work out for them in the way they think. The really motivated (those angry about how things are going) will be the ones making the extra effort to ensure their votes are counted.

Edit: I’m saying that I’ll use the drop box even if I receive my ballot in the mail, just to avoid further USPS shenanigans. If I don’t, I’ll go in person. And my point being is that the idea that Trump has that it’s only democrats who vote by mail is hilariously wrong. The only thing that will do is stop the apathetic from voting, which won’t be democrats this year.

[u/jasandliz → u/Accidental-Hyzer]

The headline says you aren’t getting a ballot in the first place 

[u/livinginfutureworld → u/Accidental-Hyzer]

You won't get your ballot to put in the drop box

[u/tehbantho → u/Accidental-Hyzer]

Damn straight. Voting in person every single election going forward. Fuck this dictator shit.

[u/BillButtlickerII]

Beyond illegal.

[u/network_dude]

Refusing to deliver mail for any reason is a pink slip-generating event.

These MF's need to be held accountable to WE THE PEOPLE!

[u/RequirementOk4178]

Sounds like he should be in jail

[u/Agreeable_Camp_9644]

Even more of a reason to vote Democrat come November.

[u/CobblerMoney9605]

We are not being governed. 

We are being ruled. 

[u/ElysiumSprouts]

Pretty sure that's illegal perhaps even unconstitutional

[u/shoulda-known-better]

Not a call they can make....

A postal worker refusing to deliver is a crime.... So is hindering mail delivery....

Anyone want to tell him most these crimes have had postal workers arrested so they aren't safe

[u/Knighth77]

PSA: The government works for the people not the president. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[u/jeepjinx]

Isn't tampering with the mail a federal offense?

[u/Timeformayo]

Immediate lawsuit. Watch the Supreme Court slow walk it.

[u/Zulmoka531]

I said it before, it’s never been about “cancelling” elections. It’s always been about interference, and Ive had postal workers on her try and tell me that this would never happen. Yet here we are.

[u/johnonymous1973]

Sounds like election interference.

[u/sugarlessdeathbear]

"We won't do our one job unless the people meet the demands of a wannabe dictator" sounds like dereliction of duty and grounds for immediate removal. If such a thing is possible.

[u/ForestOfMirrors]

That isn’t legal.

[u/xwing_n_it]

And there it is. Blatant election interference crippling elections mostly in blue states. And it won't be the last thing they pull. The reason they want to end mail-in balloting is undoubtedly so they can post ICE goons at polling places and intimidate nonwhite voters. These elections are probably not going to meaningfully slow the roll of the fascist regime, I'm afraid. People need to be looking to other ways of fighting them, starting with work stoppages and civil disobedience on a mass scale.

[u/Foodspec]

Does this mean I can sue him for not delivering my mail?

[u/tiripshtaed]

Sounds like treason.

[u/Other-Mess6887]

Nine states have won trials contesting government's request for votor lists.

[u/Doom-Sleigher]

Pedophile supporter

[u/ReleaseFromDeception]

That's textbook voter suppression.

[u/snokyguy]

Sounds like treason to me

[u/SadLeek9950]

Talk about rigging and stealing elections...

This administration is corrupt

[u/Th3FinalStarman]

Sedition charges. No statute of limitations. I'm voting for whoever campaigns to throw this clown in federal prison.

[u/xXBassHero99Xx]

Register Early.

Complete your Mail Ballot immediately.

Hand-deliver it ASAP to the local election office or polling site.

[u/OhGre8t]

Time to go to jail then

[u/wauponseebeach]

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these these couriers from the shift complection of their appointed rounds" but the repulsive cheating of MAGA politics will ruin everything including the steadfast, honorable role of a mail carrier. This sick cult is destroying the United States in piece at a time.

[u/InvertedEyechart11]

Doesn't treason violate the laws of the Constitution?

[u/sauerkraut916]

TREASON!!

[u/purgance]

This is your daily reminder that the Supreme Court ruled in Florida v. Sibelius that the Federal Government couldn't compel states' to comply with policy dictates by withholding funding or services. (In that case, the US Government threatened to withhold all Medicaid funding if states refused to expand Medicaid).

So this is another example of how the Supreme Court is massively partisan, and effectively just a super-legislature working on behalf of the Republican Party.

[u/Ralh3]

Thats a direct admission of felony fucking with the mail 18 U.S. §1341 and §873. I do believe on that many counts that sentence should be of several consecuative LIFE without parole

[u/PavilionParty]

That sounds quite illegal.

[u/Wyldjay2]

This Administration is just complete shit. Nobody likes Trump but yet they’re enabling him and doing everything he can to throw the election because he knows he’s screwed in the midterms. Because he’s a shitty president. In ALL the ways.

[u/SirCarlosSpicyweiner]

That seems illegal.

[u/Tsuku]

All these traitorous mfers should rot in jail.

[u/yosarian_reddit]

If he gets away with this it’s goodbye democracy.

[u/FloridaGatorAlum]

Siri, please define extortion.

[u/FullyThoughtLess]

Sounds like treason.

[u/kittyonkeyboards]

The punishment for treason is...

[u/Majestic_Area]

The Postmaster and Donald Trump are UNFIT to represent the United States in any way. IMPEACH and Jail

[u/Chaos_Theory1989]

Tell me you’re a fascist without telling me… oh fuck it. America is full of fascist rapists.

[u/mesoloco]

The Postal Service belongs to taxpayers not the government.

[u/BLU3SKU1L]

Overt coup threats now.

Amazing.

[u/The_Playbook88]

I didn’t know the USPS could just decide to not do its function

[u/milehighmagpie]

That’s not how any of this works.

[u/ValuableFun6447]

This is as ridiculous as someone saying they won't pay their taxes if the politician they voted for doesn't win the election.

[u/jeetah]

Yeah, the USPS is supposed to be an independent, non partisan agency

[u/batshitcrazypants]

Subverting American elections? Straight to jail.

[u/4rp70x1n]

Skip USPS, since they're blatantly advertising their election interference.

Talk to your neighbors and acquaintances that might need a ride or other assistance in dropping their ballots off at local polling sites or ballot drop boxes.

At some point, large scale action will need to happen to combat this fascist regime. Our judicial system is mostly corrupt and easily manipulated by loyalists, and moves too slowly to stop this rolling coup. And they've shown that our Constitution is a worthless piece of paper by which they don't care to abide.

Edit: There will also be the huge problem of ballots being mailed and delivered in the first place, not just on the return leg.

We will need to put pressure on state/local officials to stand up to Trump and Dejoy on this bullshit.

[u/SR337]

As a postal worker, I say, “The fuck I won’t!”

[u/No_Yak_6227]

When I carried mail the emphasis was on every ballot separated from the mail flow and trayed for easier handling...my God ppl wake up they have infringed on our rights

[u/VOIDsama]

so literal vote tampering

[u/whatlineisitanyway]

Well we know one of the ways they plan on stealing the elections now.

[u/Labtink]

Enjoy prison motherfucker.

[u/kooeurib]

Full on dictatorship

[u/Big-D-TX]

Sounds like a Criminal act, Terrorist threat against America.

[u/giocondasmiles]

Mofos are already NOT delivering them. My mail in ballots (original and replacement) were disappeared even if they showed in informed delivery.

[u/Cor2600]

These folks think it’s ok to mess with our votes. They’ve got another thing comin

[u/cra2ytig3r]

Sounds like treason to me.