From struggling against rising oil prices to reportedly being out of touch with the news cycle, President Donald Trump has his midterm election work cut out for him. To improve his chances of winning regardless of voters' wishes, Trump has tried to restrict mail-in voting. Now a new report reveals t...

From struggling against rising oil prices to reportedly being out of touch with the news cycle, President Donald Trump has his midterm election work cut out for him. To improve his chances of winning regardless of voters’ wishes, Trump has tried to restrict mail-in voting. Now a new report reveals that Democrats in at least one state have plans to counter Trump’s attempted meddling.

“New Mexico officials are talking to FedEx and UPS about using their companies to deliver mail ballots instead of the Postal Service, said Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver (D),” reported The Washington Post’s Patrick Marley and Justin Jouvenal on Sunday. “The cost would be manageable because the state sends out a relatively small number of mail-in ballots, she said. ‘We are still planning for plan B in a worst-case scenario,’ she said. ‘There are other ways to deliver ballots.’”

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  • smeenz@lemmy.nz
    35·
    1 hour ago

    The fact that you guys hold elections on a work day is insane to the rest of the world.

    Edit: Apparently some US states allow early voting, as several people have now proudly berated me for not knowing

    • mrcleanup@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 hours ago

      The funny thing is that vote at home states have several weeks to vote, there’s multiple days off already included there in the weekends. So work doesn’t have to interfere with voting at all…

    • ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world
      2311·
      22 hours ago

      Every day is a work day for someone, having a designated day for voting is an outdated way to do it

      • smeenz@lemmy.nz
        126·
        19 hours ago

        Oh, I see, so because you can’t have perfect, we shouldn’t even try to make voting as accessible as possible ? Got it.

        People can also vote by mail, or even vote early in many countries (for 12 days before the actual election day, here in NZ), but I expect you’ll find a problem with that too?

        Honestly, the fact that you even tried that argument is astonishing.

        • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          3 hours ago

          the fact you don’t give people the entire twelve days off work in new zealand so you can spend five minutes voting is absolutely astonishing. how do you even call yourselves a democracy

        • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
          63·
          14 hours ago

          “This guy disagrees with me about one issue so he must believe everything I don’t and also be a dumb stupid idiot”