Trump administration efforts to force change in the handling of election ballots may be facing a bigger hurdle than the cross-country court challenges and resistance: Election officials insist it is simply too late for them to even try to comply with the proposed rules.
  • Corvidae@lemmy.world
    37·
    4 days ago

    The Postal Service wants to require that both the “outbound” envelope carrying the ballot to the voter and the “inbound” envelope bringing the ballot back to the election office have a barcode for automated tracking that’s unique to each voter.

    No more secret ballots?

    • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      4 days ago

      Yeah this is kind scary. Let’s open up this ballot and see who he voted for so we can put him on our ICE harassment list.

      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        3 days ago

        Since trump got back in office, over half of my mail and packages have been opened and taped back shut (without the usual slip notifying me of inspection).

        Usually they do an ass job taping it closed too, things could literally just fall out and a couple times I’ve had items missing that were on the manifest…