More mail-in ballots are being tossed for lateness than before—an ominous warning ahead of November’s elections.
The U.S. Postal Service’s capability could be what decides the November elections.
Election officials are sounding alarm bells that the snail-mail service may not be fit to handle the volume of mail-in ballots this midterm cycle. An analysis published Monday by The New York Times revealed that more mail-in ballots were tossed in 2026 and 2025 than in other years.
The Times examined some of the most heavily contested battlegrounds in 12 states—California, Colorado, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Washington—and found that ballots were discarded for lateness at a higher rate than previously recorded.
The USPS sucks so hard. We’re so fucked.
None of the systems of democratic execution are equipped to deal with voters executive their rights. Its starvation by design. Increase friction to deter engagement. Invalidate votes even if cast. Remove ppl from rolls to deny them their constitutional right. The US Constitution is under siege from the GOP and Trump and they are succeeding.
The USPS should not be throwing out my mail no matter what. They don’t throw out my electric bill when it’s late, so don’t fuck with my ballot.
Edit: So the USPS can make your ballot late, then throw it out for being late?
SCOTUS has relatively recently ruled that a mail carrier can throw out mail of black residents, while delivering the mail of white residents, and not be held liable for any wrong doing.
Source?
Thanks. For the record I never doubted you.
Of course the opinion was written by Clarence Thomas. No one hates black people more than he.
Uncle Tom Ruckus
Edit: So the USPS can make your ballot late, then throw it out for being late?
That’s the voter suppression, yes.
Use ballot boxes asuch as possible. In WA, you can also print your ballot and use a dropbox, cutting the USPS out entirely.
You might need to vote in person. You might need to stand in a long line for quite a while. Your employer must, by law, give you time off to vote. It’s important that your vote be counted.
If you early vote there shouldn’t be much of a line in most places. Either way it’s critically important that everyone vote.
Some of those states are 100% vote by mail.
If I were the employer I’d be giving people the day off with pay as long as they come back with one of those “I voted” stickers
You’re not the employer because you actually want people voting and don’t want the fascists to make an owning class even more powerful. Employers would never make it easy for workers to vote.
Employers would never make it easy for workers to vote
This kinds of childish, tribalist, Other-hating does nobody any good.
For the record, I’ve had some bosses who are excited about civic duty and make a point of it. I’ve had others that begrudge it. Most seem to be totally neutral on the subject.
Damn I should become an employer. How do I do that?
I don’t trust them at all. If you can, deliver your ballot by hand.
In Colorado, officials have built more mail-in ballot drop boxes so that denizens can have their ballots mailed early, increasing the total number of boxes by 78 percent since 2018.
Now that’s what I’m talking about.
Steiner, like the fascist that appointed him, can’t die soon enough.
Most of them are in pretty convenient places too, like light rail stations. Colorado still has plenty of issues, but they’ve done a pretty great job with their voting and voter education system.
Yeah, I’ve also seen the boxes at libraries and other public buildings. My partner only lived in red states before and has been amazed by the differences.
Going from Colorado to a red state the voter suppression is very obvious
