• dhork@lemmy.world
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    The actual details are bonkers

    According to the Daily Caller, the executive order would require the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to compile a list of verified U.S. citizens in each state who are eligible to vote. DHS would undertake the effort with the Social Security Administration, the Daily Caller wrote, citing a White House fact sheet.

    The U.S. Postal Service would then be required under the order to only send mail-in ballots to voters who appear on the list, according to the Daily Caller. Election authorities in each state typically send out mail ballots to voters, not the Postal Service.

    Aside from being blatantly illegal, I bet if you dig into this you will find that the contracts have been given to all of Musk’s friends, using all the SSA data they stole

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      Oops a “technical glitch” accidentally removed all Democrats. Can’t redo the election though, sorry. We’ll do better Next Time™©®

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        I’d like to think that elon would end up prison for all the shit he’s done, at least when the dems get back in… at some point. But the democrats are spineless cowards.

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          Remember during the 2024 election when Musk literally cried on stage at a Trump rally while he was begging people to vote for Trump because “if Trump loses I will get locked in prison”.

          Yeah, Doge annihilating every enforcement and investigation organization in the government makes a lot more sense with that info, right?

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      Isn’t USPS set to collapse very soon? I was surprised when I got a flyer in the mail they were hiring. I live in a state that ONLY does mail in voting too so I’m double confused/worried about this

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        The USPS financial situation is complicated. It has a legal monopoly on first-class letter delivery, but that is less and less valuable every year as more simple communications move to the Internet. And it is also the only government agency that not only has to fund its own retirement benefits for its employees, but has to plan to put money away now to help cover retirement needs over the next 75 years.

        Take away that retirement funding mandate, which no other agency has, and the USPS is profitable most years.

        Making things worse is that the USPS has its own debt limit, separate from the Federal debt limit, which it is right up against right now.

        So yes, they lose money, but mainly due to constraints set by Congress, that no other agency has.

        Analysis here: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-us-postal-services-fiscal-crisis/

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        My local usps has had a broken front window for about 6 months. It’s covered with plywood with no signs of planned repair.

        The building was broken into about 2 months ago and a number of PO Boxes were severely damaged.

        They want to kill off everything except police enforcement.