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1. andsoi+(OP)[view] [source] 2026-01-15 15:33:45
> deployed to polls in purple and blue states to "prevent non-citizens from voting" (i.e. to scare minorities away from polls)

MOST states (purple, blue, red) have mail-in voting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_voting_in_the_United_St...

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2. lokar+a1[view] [source] 2026-01-15 15:38:49
>>andsoi+(OP)
For now. The tyrant controls the post office.
3. ceejay+e1[view] [source] 2026-01-15 15:38:57
>>andsoi+(OP)
They're working on that.

Challenging the rules: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/supreme-court-revives-...

Changing the rules at USPS: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-this-new-mail-rule-c...

And I'd fully expect some fuckery via executive orders closer to the election, and SCOTUS to use the emergency docket to let them "temporarily" be enforced.

4. buelle+m1[view] [source] 2026-01-15 15:39:25
>>andsoi+(OP)
It is being restricted. My red state has gone from allowing mail-in ballots that were allowed if they were postmarked by election day, to requiring them to be in by election day. When the postmaster general is a Trump appointee, and the mail has slowed down over the last few years, it makes me wonder if this is deliberate.
5. kgwxd+H1[view] [source] 2026-01-15 15:40:22
>>andsoi+(OP)
They're targeting that too. e.g. recent change to postmark dates.
6. JayNit+Z1[view] [source] 2026-01-15 15:41:22
>>andsoi+(OP)
Correct, which the administration is also trying to remove.
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