U.S. Postal Service Confirms It Has Removed Mailboxes in Portland and Eugene

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hoosakiwi on August 14th, 2020 at 00:32 UTC »

President Trump admitted today that he is refusing to fund the USPS because he wants to undermine vote by mail. That's also why he's been using disinformation to push a false narrative that vote by mail is rife with fraud. It is not.

A few facts about vote by mail:

Americans have used vote by mail/absentee voting since the Civil War.

In 2016, 25% of voters voted by mail.

Colorado uses universal vote by mail and is considered to have the most secure elections in the country.

Mail-in ballots have bar codes to prevent duplicates, and every ballot requires a signature that is checked in a database to prevent fraud.

To receive a ballot, you must be a registered voter.

Mail-in voting creates a paper trail that can then be audited after the election.

Vote by mail is secure. Trump is lying when he says it isn't. That's why the RNC is mailing their voters urging them to request absentee ballots.

And lastly, experts this year are predicting that as many as 70% of all votes cast could be by mail. We need the USPS to be funded and we need states to also have sufficient election funding if we want to have a fair election this November.

FFS people, this isn't partisan. If you are Republican, you should want this and if you are Democrat you should want this. It's INSANE that this is a partisan football and that Republicans aren't speaking out about it.

 

Edit: If you want to know what your options are in your state, this nonpartisan voting rights organization just put out a resource with all the information you'll need. Found out about it through Axios, but it looks like they're doing some great work to make sure the election isn't totally fucked this year.

They are pushing for expanded early voting, PPE for pollworkers, vote by mail/no-excuse absentee voting, and are also supporting ballot initiatives to end gerrymandering, implement ranked choice voting, and common sense restrictions like ending lobbyist gifts to politicians. If you support any of these things, please consider donating to them.

thxxx1337 on August 14th, 2020 at 00:24 UTC »

Portland: We want you to defund the police.

Trump: We hear you. We're reducing the postal service.

BugFix on August 13rd, 2020 at 23:38 UTC »

Oregon voters: state ballot drop boxes are not run by the USPS, not subject to this kind of manipulation, and are very plentiful. There is surely one in your neighborhood. Find it and use it. Don't trust the mail this election.

That said... Trump isn't going to win Oregon. Merkeley's seat is even safer. There are no major state-wide elections or measures that would concern the white house. This won't be the battleground of the USPS shitstorm.