r/politics • u/usatoday ✔ USA TODAY • 7h ago

No Paywall Whistleblower warns Trump mail ballot plan could be 'catastrophic'

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/09/01/donald-trump-postal-service-mail-ballots-whistleblower/91559060007/
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u/PiskoWK 7h ago

Republicans, specifically older ones, use mail in voting the most. 

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u/Spaceman-Spiff 7h ago

Well that’s just not true at all. Mail in voting favors dems. It’s why the voting result always flips after mail in voting gets counted. Trump is an idiot, but the man knows how to lie and cheat.

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u/AnonAmbientLight 4h ago

I'm not so certain.

Part of the reason Trump lost in 2020, was that he told his voters not to vote by mail because it was "bad".

And so they didn't and instead stood in lines and Democrats voted by mail because Covid and so in essence got more of the vote out.

I think with Trump fucking with mail in ballots like he is, it will convince more Democrats to vote early or vote in person.

And I would bet my fucking bottom dollar that more Republicans vote by mail this time because they'll think it's "safer" now that Trump has "fixed it".

So I'd expect a higher Dem performance on election night, with some boosts to Republican vote by mail. Basically a "red wave" but it'll probably be more of a trickle.

Then I guess Trump could suggest that Republican mail in votes were fucked with, and try to claim there were more than were really sent in, or something.

Don't think that will work, but the goal isn't for this to work, it's to cause confusion and an opening, like in 2020.

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u/Spaceman-Spiff 2h ago

Trump isn’t the one making the plan, he’s just enacting it. It’s an all out attack to disenfranchise democratic voters. On top of mail in voting being fucked with, they are also purging voter rolls in dem heavy areas, and closing voting places in dem heavy areas. Voting is going to be more difficult in November and it’s all to favor republicans.

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u/AnonAmbientLight 2h ago

Trump isn’t the one making the plan, he’s just enacting it.

While there's room to suggest that someone is directing Trump on some things, Trump's overall way of handling most shit has been him telling people to do shit, and then the underlings try to make it work and figure it out.

That's how he ran his businesses. That's why he says crazy shit because that doesn't really work in government because government doesn't work that way. That's also where the corruption shows up, because Trump doesn't care and probably doesn't understand that's not how it should work.

On top of mail in voting being fucked with, they are also purging voter rolls in dem heavy areas, and closing voting places in dem heavy areas.

They've been doing that for decades. That's not new. Nor a sign that there's some kind of greater thing at play here.

Voting is going to be more difficult in November and it’s all to favor republicans.

The only major difference this year than in previous years is the USPS directly fucking with mail in voting. Which may or may not hurt Republicans this year. Everything else you've mentioned has been a thing that Republicans have been doing for decades.

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u/MountNevermind 51m ago

While there's room to suggest that someone is directing Trump on some things, Trump's overall way of handling most shit has been him telling people to do shit, and then the underlings try to make it work and figure it out

Based on what?