A ban on postal workers’ ability to co-sign absentee ballots could determine the election.
Eric Cortellessa
Eric Cortellessa, a Washington Monthly contributing editor, is a staff writer for Time magazine.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Speedy Mail-In Ballot Plan that Can Thwart Trump’s Election Power Grab
The president wants to delay the counting of absentee ballots, which will be overwhelmingly Democratic, so he can declare victory on Election Night. Postal union leaders have an idea to speed up the process.
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Republicans Are Slowing Down Mailed-In Vote Counts in Key Swing States
Are they purposefully manufacturing a crisis that Trump wants to use to contest the election results?
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The Postal Service’s Nightmare Election Scenario
What’s the plan if USPS workers start getting sick?
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How to Save Ballot Drop Boxes
A simple way for states and municipalities to counter the GOP’s war on mail voting.
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Is Trump Scaring Democrats Away from Vote by Mail?
New evidence suggests he might be—and that could hand him the election.
Posted inSeptember/October 2020
Stanley Kubrick’s Calculated Rebellion
In his life and in his work, the filmmaker showed that insurgents only win when they sweat the small stuff.
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The Republicans’ Newest Plan to Derail Voting Rights
After screwing up the Postal Service, they’re now attacking drop boxes.
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Susan Collins Engineered the USPS Disaster She’s Now Protesting
Trump may be trying to sabotage the election, but the war against the Postal Service goes back decades.
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The Benefits of Boredom
COVID-19 is going to last a long while. Here’s the psychology behind making the best of it.
