Rachel Maddow warned viewers on Monday that President Donald Trump plans to interfere with midterm election results, following the Supreme Court’s recent 7-2 ruling against his executive order instructing the US Postal Service (USPS) to block states from distributing and collecting mail-in ballots.
Trump’s order, which he signed last March, would’ve directed the USPS to refuse to deliver mail-in ballots to anyone whose information hadn’t been properly submitted to a new state citizenship list maintained by the federal government.
“Trump is counting on confusion, uncertainty, and a lack of confidence in the mail-in voting system to suppress voter turnout,” she said.
Lol, bruh
Sweden: 450,295 km2 USA: … 9,833,520 km2
We are 20x the size and very spread out. Mail in voting is a very efficient way to get it done. When it’s done right.
Sweden has a population of 10 million. 10 of our states have populations well over that. Hell, California has 40 million people. Even with neighborhood voting stations it’s a big procedure. The process itself isn’t bad, about an hour or three, but the whole procedure of taking off work and getting there with thousands of others makes it a logistical circus.
Sweden is a beautiful country filled with intelligent and worldy people who have a functional government and solid social net.
54% of our population have a below 6th grade reading level. A quarter of our population is functionally illiterate.
Getting the majority of people to vote is like herding cats. Plus there are only two parties so many people feel disenfranchised. We used to have strong national values about doing our civic duty, but that has largely fallen out of favor. We are not an united people.
We are essentially the ultra-capitalist version of Russia and as advanced as much of our tech is, our civic services are 15 years behind the times.
If we could vote online, and were required to, many many things would be different.