Postmaster General David Steiner told a Senate committee Wednesday that, if a proposed rule is adopted, the U.S. Postal Service would withhold mail ballots from states that do not hand over to the federal government lists of people who have requested absentee or mail ballots.
Oh, we do. I meant that all of the ballots get mailed to voters before the election. We can either mail them back (postage paid) or drop them off at drop boxes in every district. It’s a pretty awesome system, but if the USPS refuses to deliver the ballots it could be a problem. The state would have to figure out some other way to distribute them. It would be a huge PITA (not to mention expense) and probably reduce voter turnout significantly.
In Oregon where we’ve been vote by mail since like the 90s you can still vote in person. But we don’t really have the infrastructure to allow every voter to vote in person. If those ballots don’t get mailed out I imagine most Oregonians just won’t vote, and those that do are going to be stuck in never ending lines.
Does Oregon not allow you to print your ballot if it doesn’t get delivered in time like WA?
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Oh yeah, that makes sense.