(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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    They can. But will they? These post offices are run by the same people doing the voting, after all.

    It’s one thing to tell a post office in Utah to trash all the ballots and just hand the keys of state off to the local Mormon Bishopry. Very much another to give the order in Washington State.

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          Except Dems always play by the rules, to their detriment. I liked Michelle Obama but that “they go low, we go high” shit has been causing problems for far too long.

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            Except Dems always play by the rules

            No they don’t!

            They say they do, but they routinely break conventions and norms and laws and constitutional amendments when it’s convenient for them and their donor base.

            More often than not, they wait for a Republican to do it first and then just keep on keeping on.

            But they don’t follow the rules. They use the rules to excuse why they refuse to enact popular policies. They deflect and defer and soccer-flop.

            “they go low, we go high”

            Obama did drone strikes on children.

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              Obama did drone strikes on children.

              Wrong Obama, but let’s put things in perspective here…Trump bombed a girls school in a remote village. Then came back and bombed the rescue effort.

              I really wonder what a generation of boys who grow up in a remote village with a shortage of female peers will end up like.

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              They say they do, but they routinely break conventions and norms and laws and constitutional amendments when it’s convenient for them and their donor base.

              Yep. They’ll sure as fuck break the rules when it comes to preventing a progressive candidate from winning a Democratic primary race.

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              Good point - “Dems don’t break the rules FIRST” is probably a better way for me to phrase it. But that gets us to the same place. They wouldn’t trash the ballots here until they’d seen proof Repubs did it, and by then it would likely too late to respond tit for tat. Election over; world fucked. But the NEXT time election (in what, 50, 60!years of we’re lucky) we might get something.