Feds Fight for Tighter Mail-In Voting Rules

It's a way to overcome the Senate's inability to pass the Save America Act. It may not be perfect, but it does provide some well need accountablity in mail ballots. Which, in my opinion, should be very restricted overall!

Yes! It’s a challenge, but SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE to stop the fraudulent voting and secure our elections!!! Every US citizen should want their vote verified, secured, and protected! Only US citizens should be allowed to vote in our elections! Every other country requires proof of citizenship! How did we lose that requirement? What really matters is that we need to get that back!!!

I would like to see proof of disenfranchisement. We have seen proof of fraud, now lets see proof of not being able to vote

I guess I am old, but I believe that there should be no early voting, the only people that should mail in ballots are what was called absentee ballots that were for military personnel and our embassy employees with a few other exceptions, Election Day is for everyone to get off their derrières and get out and vote!! Gail Custer

Messy. Save America act would be better.

Yes, here in WA State we have the perfect environment for voter fraud. Since the rhinos in the Senate will not pass the Save Act, I pray to God we can make them irrelevant through the postal service.

Yes, I like the USPS rule, but I agree that it's not likely to make a huge difference for the mid-terms.

Yes, even if it will probably not be very effective. It is better to continue to try to do something than to just ignore the problem because it is too hard to fix.

Yes. It's a start. It doesn't have to be perfect but at least it can help.

Yes, mail in balloting will only lead to communism. Washington state is all mail in balloting and since then we have gone from left to a communist state. Mail in balloting is very corrupt and the postal service needs to just do the job. Their computers need to talk to each other and weed out the chaff

I agree that a database created in such a short period of time is not going to be very reliable. I have no doubt that the Trump administration has had a plan in the works since he took office and think their plan is ready, but it is completely untested and going to have massive problems. This is not going to be an overnight fix. It is going to take several election cycles to test and de-bug before it is TRULY trustworthy.

Responding bluntly to your “To be blunt”, NC has already responded to the requirement of providing a voter roll. If a state is to protect its own Voting system from fraudulent voters, they must have a system that consists of a list of valid voters. If they are to send out ballots by mail, they have to have a list of those voters. So why can’t that list be submitted to the post office so that it can ensure only people on that list receive a ballot? North Carolina has had no trouble doing so. Paragraph to your point that it is too hard to verify those lists against ballots, it’s easy. It’s all done by machine that matches barcodes to an authorized list of barcodes. Mail is processed electronically already.

I like it in theory, yes. Something has to be done for inaction of congress. Yes, the organization takes time but we can just not do anything. Nothing is what has been happening for way too long.

Yes... its encouraging. Anything that helps stop the illegal voting is great!

I am in favor of the spirit of the order - but the process is almost impossible. Voter rolls change almost daily - people move, re-register, die, fail to register, etc. continuously. There is no way to build a system able to track and keep up with the dynamic nature of voting in roughly 2 months. Maybe a year would be sufficient (not even sure that is long enough). Even with AI helping, it’s just not gonna happen that fast. My overall opinion is that people have 4 years to plan for major elections and if they aren’t motivated enough to get an ID, register, and vote in that amount of time, they “disenfranchise” themselves. It is ridiculous to coddle adult people regarding a major responsibility (rather than a right, which nowhere guaranteed in the constitution). They are promised an opportunity - nothing more.

I’d like to see proof of massive voter fraud before make voting and verification process further complicated and possibly causing less American citizens to vote. President Trump uses absentee voting and that’s proof enough for me that our voting process is realistically safe from fraud. Than

Have to agree with Brandon, this USPS change isn't going to happen before the midterms and besides, the Democrats will fight it all the way! Shame on Sen. Thune for not forcing a vote on the Save America Act. Even if if failed, it would have put a hand full of Republican senators on the hot seat to explain why they voted no! The Save Act is really the only path forward.

Yes!

Yes!! But it will take a lot of time to implement it. Interesting side benefit forUSPS employees: The USPS has suffered greatly from the internet. The volume of mail has massively declined and they are probably kept afloat by junk mail and bulk mail. They have fewer people delivering mail and those people have larger areas to cover and must work longer hours. If they add the mail-in duties to the workload they will have to hire more people (at least temporarily and before every election).

Yes I’m from Connecticut we need change we are tired of the democrats cheating

yes.

Disagree. DOGE put many of the federal government databases in formats where communication between the them is possible. That is how they discovered 14,000 people in the SNAP program who registered cars valued at $80K or more in just one state. Crosscheck databases for people requesting asylum, felons, deceased or people registered in multiple states etc. who are on the voting rolls. Won't purge all but could eliminate a significant number. The mere fact, that it is blue states suspected of massive fraud that are the ones wanting to keep their registration rolls secret which lends credibility to the fraud problem.

There isn't a week that goes by that I don't marvel at the Democratic Party's endless efforts to keep fraudulent voting alive and well. They know that they are incapable of winning honest elections, and that fact terrifies them, which explains why Xanax prescriptions are going through the roof!

Admittedly trying to get this done in such a short time is going to be difficult, to impossible, but the states are the cause of the problem since mainly Blue states refuse to conform with the Nation law banning illegal immigrants from voting. I think the states are the main problem and something needed to happen to stop the illegal voting. A bad plan is better than a plan that that the Blue states are using to defraud the nation election system.

I'm sorry, wasn't the idea to remove Mail-in-Voting altogether since it's so rife with Fraud? Sure was, but like everything else the Trump Admin. promises it all goes to shit and nothing ever truly comes to fruition to the benefit of the actual decent American Citizens. The fact that we even had to come up with a Bill (Save Act) to legitimize elections should tell you how far this country has fallen and that Trump and these A-Holes in the Legislative and Judicial Branch are quite possibly some of the worst people we've ever had hold these positions. I mean you can't script this crap, activist "pretend" judges who go against the most basic rules of law. A Senate that failed to pass a simple Bill that on it's face protects the most basic function of the election system. I mean How, Why?? And now this b.s. hail-mary proposition by these clowns which the guys pointed out is well beyond a longshot. Guess folks are waking up to who DJT was all along sad to say, (Mr. 30%) and dropping..