On Friday, a three‑judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously paused a lower‑court injunction that had temporarily blocked the USPS from finalising and enforcing the new ballot‑delivery rule.
The rule would permit the Postal Service to withhold delivery of mail‑in and absentee ballots where state officials decline to send certain voter data to federal authorities. In practice, that sets up a confrontation between states determined to guard sensitive voter information and a federal agency now claiming it cannot guarantee accurate ballot delivery without it.
Many town halls have drop boxes for mail/absentee ballots. Skip USPS if you think they may screw with ballots.
This implies that town hall is reachable for the voter. Whereas the USPS is required to serve every address.
Big difference in how this makes voting accessible to all eligible voters.
The point is to minimize the number of votes and make it as difficult as possible. Republicans know that if everyone voted they would never hold office again. So they make it as hard as possible for people who wouldn’t vote for them to vote at all.
Make no mistake, RFKs war on Adderall is absolutely a part of it. Unmedicated ADHD makes handling the nonstop responsibility of adulthood real tough and things like “remember to drop off the ballot at town hall” are exactly the type of thing that falls off the radar.
You’re looking at the wrong side of the issue. There are several states (mine included) where mail delivery is the primary method of distributing ballots to voters. If the USPS refuses to deliver them, then those states need to scramble to get ballots distributed another way. This will assuredly reduce voter turnout.