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Re:Amazon gets priority while mail gets delayed, say US lett... by munk-a on Monday July 27, 2020 @12:40PM (#23966745)
Critically, mail in ballots are generally not accepted late. USPS will get everything where it's going eventually - but if the Trump appointee announces an impromtu postal holiday the week before the election then

1. Probably nothing technically illegal has happened

2. Nobody's mail-in-vote will arrive in time to be counted

This coupled with the fact that those rabid Trump fans will be showing up at the polls in person might[1] be enough to tip it in his favor.

1. It still might not be enough though, he is doing hilariously abysmally in polls.

Re:Amazon gets priority while mail gets delayed, say US lett... by dhosek on Monday July 27, 2020 @03:07PM (#23968309)
As Wisconsin demonstrated, the attempts at voter suppression will likely backfire. If the Republicans had agreed to mail-in balloting or a delayed primary, they might have held on to the state supreme court seat they lost, but what they ended up doing kept Republican voters home (why go vote in person in a pandemic when there's no top of the ballot choice to make) while the Democrats stood in line (between the obvious attempt to make them stay home [Streisand effect] and the real impact of their top of the ballot choice). I'm just some schmuck in another state and I could see the likely outcome of the attempt at voting suppression before it happened, but Republicans seem to have only two tools in their toolbox anymore: tax cuts and voter suppression, and those tools aren't doing the job now and hurt more than help.
Re:Amazon gets priority while mail gets delayed, say US lett... by lozaning on Monday July 27, 2020 @03:19PM (#23968434)
Doesn't your mail in ballot just need to be postmarked by election day to count? Its not the day its received, its the day its sent that counts.
Re:Amazon gets priority while mail gets delayed, say US lett... by detaro on Monday July 27, 2020 @03:22PM (#23968457)
probably depends on the state?