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Mail-In-Voting: Appeals Court Hands Trump
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Posted By: gaboy, 7/20/2026 2:08:36 AM

In March of 2026 President Trump issued Executive Order 14399, “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections,” directing the U.S. Postal Service to create a rule whereby any state that intends to send mail-in ballots to voters must provide a list of those eligible to participate in federal elections or the USPS “shall not transmit” those ballots. The obvious goal of the EO is to keep ballots from reaching people who are not eligible to vote. This predictably produced several lawsuits. On Friday, however, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay on the lower court injunction.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Sorosisbehindit 7/20/2026 6:54:11 AM (No. 2130112)
I believe all voting should be done in person with ID, with the exception of those serving in our military over seas. If someone is so elderly that they are not able to go to a poll in a nursing home van (so the poll worker can determine if they are capable of casting a vote by themselves), they need to encourage their grandkids to go vote. We have known for decades that democrat operatives have been putting ballots in front of dementia patients. If you want to travel abroad or live abroad, plan your travel with elections in mind if it is important to you. When I was young we all went to vote on the same day and we had a winner by that night, or the next day if they needed a recount. I would be willing to have a week of voting in person, but the final voting day should be the end of it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: skacmar 7/20/2026 6:54:54 AM (No. 2130113)
All that Trump's executive order did was direct states to follow federal laws that have been in place for over 20 years. He did not make up the laws. Congress passed them. They were being ignored by the states. A lot of what Trump is doing is just enforcing existing laws as stated in his oath of office. Just because they don't like the laws, does not mean they can ignore them.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: cgood 7/20/2026 7:49:18 AM (No. 2130136)
The only remedy is to halt all mail in voting. It cannot be verified. If you are unavailable to vote in person, absentee voting should be the remedy.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: zephyrgirl 7/20/2026 8:16:06 AM (No. 2130141)
In her final years, my mother was in a senior facility. Every election day, election workers would come to the facility to "help" the seniors to vote. My mother had Parkinson's and while she wasn't senile, she had good days and bad days when she would get confused. I lived out of town so couldn't go supervise her voting. From something she said after the 2008 election, I'm pretty sure that she (a lifelong Republican) voted for Obama. She said something about "wanting a change" - nonsense that she'd have never said on a good day. Other relatives also got the same impression from her. I can't prove it, but I'd bet a paycheck that the election worker was taking advantage of one of her confused days.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: bpl40 7/20/2026 8:16:24 AM (No. 2130142)
How can an order ensuring that mail ballots fall only in the hands of those (that are) eligible be disputable under the law? What kind of bizarro world have the Democrats pushed us into??
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Mr. Know-It-All 7/20/2026 8:52:30 AM (No. 2130161)
Agree 100% with poster 1. People have made great sacrifices over the years to secure our voting rights. If you're too lazy or inconvenienced to take a little time to go to the voting place then you should stay home. Mail in voting is not secure and is an open invitation to fraud.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Encore 7/20/2026 9:15:35 AM (No. 2130173)
Sorry, but, the USPS? Can’t go wrong there.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Muguy 7/20/2026 10:20:57 AM (No. 2130199)
Pull quote from the article: "... eight states have all mail elections — California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, and Washington: “In these states, voting is conducted primarily by mail, and all eligible voters receive a ballot by default.” "All of these states are now one-party fiefdoms."
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Reply 9 - Posted by: robertthomason 7/20/2026 10:49:19 AM (No. 2130210)
Twenty-five years ago, we had this same problem here in Alabama. The Alabama Republican Party went to the federal courthouse and sued the Democrat Secretary of State over this same issue. The 11th Circuit ruled against her and told her to follow the law and clean up the voter rolls. She lost her reelection bid in 2002. She was the last Democrat to hold the office. Since then, the Democrat Party disappeared as a statewide party and in about 50 of our 67 counties. I have never understood why the Republicans in these states listed here have not found their way to their federal courthouse when their election officials defy federal law. Once again, Trump leads the way.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino 7/20/2026 12:06:54 PM (No. 2130234)
All ballots must always be in the custody of duly sworn-in election officials. Any ballot - - which even temporarily is outside legal custody - - should never be counted. Once a ballot is mailed out - - it is outside the custody of proper authorities - - and should not be counted. And that's a fact, Jack!
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