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The US president just instructed the USPS to seize any ballots cast be anyone not approved by the federal government. (www.whitehouse.gov)
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(iii) Proposed provisions specifying that the USPS shall not transmit mail-in or absentee ballots from any individual unless those individuals have been enrolled on a State-specific list described in subsection (b)(iv) of this section with the USPS pursuant to this subsection.

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[–] 53 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

I'm not sure how post offices in these states could even respond.

By laughing and ignoring it, having the Governors and Attorneys General of those states countermand it with their own executive orders / statements, just straight up saying that this is plainly obviously unconstitutional.

They could then also threaten legal action against anyone at the USPS who does not listen to them.

Its yet another Constitutional Crisis, any way you look at it, but, its not like there's just no possible response.

The President is straight up demanding that Postal Workers engage in a conspiracy to, amongst other things... tamper with people's mail.

So, any manager or supervisor who orders that be done? 30,000 counts of mail fraud, you're arrested and go to jail forever.

Set up a state tip line for USPS workers to report anything like that happening.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    This is how all of these ridiculous eos should be handled. It's nuts that everybody is just doing what mango Mussolini decrees.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago*

    Its nuts, but this is basically just how fascism works.

    More than enough people, politicians and the populace, basically just get stun locked by the pure audacity of 'you can just do stuff', as all the 'norms' that were never formalized just evaporate.

    The response is at first bureacratic, procedural, untill it becomes extremely obvious that the entire strategy of the fascists is to weaponize everything.

    Even then, it tends to take a while for most people and politicians to actually begin to react in kind, strategically, seriously, largely because they are afraid of... further destroying the norms that the fascists already destroyed.

    Normalcy bias. "It can't happen here" exceptionalism. Cowardice. Incompetence. Propoganda. Historical illiteracy.

    Take your pick.

    If state governors were more clever, they'd be coming up with reasons to keep their National Guard busy doing something 'important' in their states, literally just to deny them from being mobilized Federally, or make it more procedurally difficult and more of a PR mess for the Feds to do so.

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