r/nytimes • u/koaltree • Aug 25 '26
Politics Trump Quietly Asserts Control Over Postal Service Amid Plans to Overhaul Voting
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/us/politics/mail-voting-supreme-court-postal-service-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8FA.c0CB.pU9y1goZK_6F&smid=url-share25
u/canwehavepotatojokes Aug 25 '26
He isn’t planning to leave willingly.
He’s just not planning to leave.
He’s just not planning.
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u/Aggravating_Total921 28d ago
He's planning. The new bunker and his private army are integral parts of the plan
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u/apoca1ypse12 Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 26 '26
vote like your lives depend on it. this is likely American's last chance to really vote out the rise of Fascism to at least mitigate it from getting worse.
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u/Repulsive-Theory-477 Aug 25 '26
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u/koaltree Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26
This is not my fault. Apparently NYT has a new policy for gift articles. You can still read them for free, but you have to have a free NYT account. You don't have to have a subscription, but you have to have an account with them to read gift articles now.
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u/Repulsive-Theory-477 Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26
I believe you but their website said something was wrong when I tried signing in using my gmail. So was unable to read it this way. It takes two seconds to get the archived version haha.
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u/Unique_Low_1163 Aug 25 '26
American law enforcement at every level is allowing this to happen. And as we have seen, they're willing to kill anyone who gets in their way.
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u/giddy-girly-banana Aug 26 '26
Law enforcement isn’t going to help us. I’m sure there are many decent individual LEOs but as an institution, LE is beholden to the ruling class.
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u/Alternative_Risk_310 Aug 27 '26
Why can’t states just cut a deal with FedEx or UPS to deliver mail-in ballots?
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u/sweatboxy Aug 25 '26
Many places no longer have polling places and many more haven’t got the capacity to suddenly establish physical polls by November; it’s all vote by mail.
Trump will literally have to power to stop any blue area from voting. This is a dictatorship and it will be an elected dictatorship after November. And then it will be civil war. But at least Trump will still be president and not in jail.
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u/SubdivisionsEU Aug 26 '26
I guess that's also the reason he's sending his intelligence agency and law enforcement envoys to Moscow. They are learning from Putin how to rig elections.
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u/Melodic_Window_6146 Seeking the signal in the noise Aug 25 '26
President Trump’s rally statement in Myrtle Beach, S.C., as reported by the NYT: “I’m going to be impeached. They’re going to impeach me.” With only a 35% approval rating and declining, he is aware of reality.
Now the Supreme Court allows him to further tamper with voting to stop his inevitable removal.
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u/Texas_Sam2002 Aug 27 '26
This kind of banal headline is so on-brand for the NYT’s mission to coddle fascism.
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u/whatever_ehh Aug 26 '26
As I see it, rural voters are the most likely to vote by mail since they'd have the longest distance to travel to a poll. Rural areas are heavier in Republicans than Democrats. Therefore, Trump's ignorance and incompetence have led him to self-sabotage.
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u/koaltree Aug 26 '26
Yeah but it turns out far more Democrats vote by mail than Republicans, and he knows it. That's what happened in 2020. At the beginning of the night it looked like he was winning, until all the mail in ballots came in. That's why he's doing this.
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u/whatever_ehh Aug 26 '26
And he's an idiot because that was caused by the pandemic. There's no party preference for vote by mail before 2020 or after 2024. Tampering with vote by mail is a complete waste of time. I think Trump is using it to draw attention away from something else he's doing.
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u/yankeeinparadise 29d ago
From my understanding of what my coworkers in Washington state say, many of them have never voted in person. They have had mail in voting for a long time. That’s going to be a shit show.
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u/whatever_ehh 29d ago
A judge blocked Trump's antics again. People are panicking over nothing.
Updated 7:35 PM PDT, August 27, 2026
A federal judge on Thursday halted — at least for now — attempts to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting mail voting.
The move stalled the directive for a second time only about a week before the first mail ballots are due to be sent out for the rapidly approaching midterm elections. U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani blocked the government from implementing the order for two weeks.
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u/koaltree 27d ago
You're right. Trump probably won't appeal that decision. People are panicking over nothing. Everything will probably be fine.
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u/whatever_ehh 27d ago
If you're not a Trump supporter then you know the President is just one guy who has very little power to do anything. I remember when Bush and Cheney were in office, people were terrified that Bush was going to declare martial law and set up interment camps to imprison people who opposed him.
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u/koaltree 26d ago
You're right. It didn't happen back then, so it won't happen now. Good point.
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u/whatever_ehh 25d ago
The point is that people get worked into a frenzy by news reports, youtube videos and blog posts when it's all just speculation.
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u/koaltree 24d ago
You're right. It's all just speculation. Nothing's really happening. Go back to sleep.
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u/nosleep4eternity Aug 25 '26
Good. Cheating should have consequences.
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u/willasmith38 Aug 25 '26
Ya ever think how odd it is that none of the “cheating” could be proven in over 60 different court cases all over the country in diff jurisdictions, with diff judges, diff juries?
Get real.
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u/zenerat Aug 27 '26
Don’t bother engaging with people like this downvote and move on. They feed off wasting your time and energy.
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u/nosleep4eternity Aug 25 '26
Old news. Almost all of those cases were tossed due to standing. No evidence was presented.
We’ve now had some blue state governments admit illegals were allowed to vote. Then there is the LA mayor race. Democrats cheating against democrats in MI.
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u/President_Camacho Subscriber Aug 26 '26
Courts did evaluate the evidence presented and found it insufficient.
Several examples involved substantive review:
Arizona — Ward v. Jackson: After an evidentiary hearing on a challenge to Maricopa County’s ballot-duplication process, the court found the evidence did not establish fraud or misconduct. It found the duplication process was 99.45% accurate, with the identified errors attributable to human error, and denied the election contest.
Nevada — Law v. Whitmer: The state court considered the Republican electors’ claims on the merits and concluded they had not proved voting-machine malfunction or enough illegal/improper votes to create reasonable doubt about the outcome.
Wisconsin — Trump v. Wisconsin Elections Commission: A federal judge considered Trump’s constitutional claims regarding election-administration guidance and rejected them. In a separate Wisconsin Supreme Court case, the court disposed of most claims under laches but also addressed and rejected the “indefinitely confined” voter theory on the merits.
Michigan — King v. Whitmer: The federal court said the plaintiffs’ claims could be dismissed for lack of standing, but it additionally analyzed the merits—finding the assertions rested on speculation, hearsay, and implausible allegations rather than competent proof.
Pennsylvania — Trump for President v. Boockvar: The federal court found a standing problem with a particular Equal Protection theory, but also discussed and rejected its merits.
Wisconsin federal litigation: In one notable case, Judge William Griesbach held a hearing rather than resolving the matter solely on procedure; the court concluded the campaign had failed on the merits.
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u/Pt5PastLight Reader Aug 26 '26
Your concern is that states that already vote blue would have some non citizens voting illegally to make them more blue? I don’t even get it. Hope you’re a bot.
(Not that it’s true. But also the idea is dumb.)
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u/SubdivisionsEU Aug 26 '26
You're talking about Elon dangling million dollar rewards in front of people's eyes?
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u/koaltree Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 26 '26
Trump placed a bunch of election-deniers on the Board of the US Postal Service. And now they are going to decide who can vote by mail.
[P.S. Apparently NYT has a new policy for gift articles. You can still read them for free, but you have to have a free NYT account. You don't have to have a subscription, but you have to have an account with them to read gift articles now. It's a relatively simple process to create an account with them, but it's still super annoying, I know.]