You can never tell with District Court judges. Even after SCOTUS suggests it would be inappropriate for a tiny judge in a tiny pond to cast orders with national effect, they keep doing it. And I know, I’m singing to the choir on the judge problem. The left goes shopping. Finds one willing to do the deed. And no, we’re off to another court, which is the point. Stop, stall, delay, and undermine, with the bonus of slanted media coverage.
When a higher court says the opposite, you just don’t cover that, and all the people being fed the placebo media remedy have no idea they’ve been duped.
Preamble delivered, I admit that I had my doubts about the US Postal Service being a foil to the fraud problems of mail-in ballots. USPS is a massive, inefficient, money pit, long protected by the deep state and the proglodytes who run it. If it doesn’t lose five billion dollars a year, it’s doing well. The private sector could do it better, cheaper, and taxpayers would save not just the budget but the extra billions it loses annually.
How was this operation going to stand firm (a) on a barcode-driven election mail initiative and (b) execute it with extreme prejudice?
I know it has the equipment, the technology, and now apparently the will, but this is USPS. Is Trump fixing that too? Was it even on the list?
Do we need MUSPSGA hats?
At the direction of the Chief Executive, the US Postal Service plans to require states to submit voter lists with serialized ballot barcodes for vote-by-mail, or they won’t get their ballots mailed. The rules are not final, but that’s the gist.
Outrage is appropriate if you’re confused. Yes, states run elections, but ask any Democrat when Democrats are in charge, and they will remind you that the Feds have jurisdiction over Federal elections regardless of what other elections are happening at the same time.
Mid-Terms might enjoy a loophole. Federal candidates are elected at the state level. There’s no national candidate. And the fact that many become whores at the federal level isn’t technically a reason to contradict that reality. You could make that case. But the Feds have a case if we’re challenging election integrity, and nothing about a serialized barcode on an envelope is unconstitutional, nor does it violate anyone’s civil rights.
Package and mail tracking are not just ubiquitous but expected. Everyone wants to know where their thing is, whether it is traveling by UPS, USPS, FedEx, or Amazon. Serialized barcoding would help locate lost or missing ballots in the interest of protecting the chain of custody, what of it there is, since you abandoned it the moment you put that thing in anything but a voting machine.
And the idea is still alive.
For now.
This would not prevent someone from pulling suitcases filled with ballots out from under a table after kicking out all the election observers and covering all the windows, but it would make it harder to use the mail to insert extra illegal ballots into the count.
I’m skeptical because the cheaters are more persistent and will DO ANYTHING to prevent clean elections by actual citizens who actually live in the state where the election is being held.
That’s hard to beat, but you have to keep trying.
