From the article:
The U.S. Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a huge win Monday by allowing an executive order designed to sharply curtail mail voting to go into effect — a move California and other Democratic-led states have warned could thrust the midterm elections into chaos.
Rushing through unprecedented changes to the mail voting system will be especially challenging for California, where more than 80% of voters use mail ballots and every registered voter receives a ballot by mail.
In an unsigned ruling, apparently by a 6-3 vote, the court said the states would not show they would be harmed by the restrictions on mail voting and therefore lacked legal standing to challenge it in court.
Nothing good ever comes about from making things harder for people to vote.
The blue states just need to enact malicious compliance. They could declare a floating public holiday called voting day, pay electoral staff penalty rates and make it a law that all workers required to work that day are given paid time off to attend a nearby voting station. They could setup a time slot booking system that lets people nominate a voting station and a timeslot with information about how many people are attending at that time so they can make informed decisions about when to attend. Could they impose a tarrif (apparently it’s not a tax) on political parties so that a percentage of their donations need to go to supporting the local elections. Republican billionaires want to buy elections? Whoops all democracy.
Me being from germany I think it is just wild how voting day in the US can be just a random day of the week where you then also have to take a day off in order to vote, most likely. In germany election days are ALWAYS on a Sunday, so the vast majority of people don’t need to waste a vacation day.
Pretty sure Australia is always a Saturday, we also have compulsory voting. We do have the American conservatives and one of the local billionaires trying to sway our elections with some bile filled troll of dubious moral value, but that’s a whole different problem which is somewhat mitigated by ensuring the whole voting age population votes. We could definitely improve our politicians accountability and general voter education on civics.
It’s democrats we are talking about lol cmon now
lol the opposition to the party with evil plans is the party with no plans.
*controlled opposition
Right, so what does it matter if Trump takes away the ability to vote? Stupid turds like you werent going to anyway clearly.
Greeen MAGA.
A man can dream =(
hakeem jeffries doesn’t believe in voting day. or medicare for all.
Luckily he’s federal so hopefully the state governments are a little less gutless
The political class will be living high off the hog with superior federal benefits, while singing off and enabling anything the Heritage Foundation and the Christofacists want. Sure the establishment dems will make some performative grumblings, but it’s all an act to placate their old voting base and give an illusion of democracy, right?
That does seem likely =( it’s not like there are well known significant improvements that could be made to the US voting system that are never spoken about by either side of the aisle …
Most states already have something like that in effect. Even Missouri gives you 2 or 3 hours paid time off to go vote.
Colorado has like a month to vote.