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This is pretty much the Republican project all along.

Doesn’t Russia still hold elections where Putin always wins? Or North Korea?

I think the idea is you keep having elections so you can say you won.

They're following the Hungary model, which in turn was a variation on the Russian model.

What they're attempting is a "legal coup," which is the typical modern democracy-to-authoritarianism transition. They want to retain the facade of constitutionality and lawfulness, to avoid creating an armed insurgency situation, and to avoid burning the value of the current economic system by crashing the stock market or causing investment to flee.

Checks and balances doesn’t work if one party is in charge of everything.

Nixon could not have been convicted without Republican votes. But Nixon resigned, because he knew Republicans would vote to impeach and convict him. So the system can in theory work, even if the system depends on policing its own.

It is in fact quite normal across democracies, for stuff like this to depend on the votes of the party in power.

The problem here is that Republican representatives are traitors to their oaths. And more importantly, that Republican voters are not demanding their representatives to not be traitors.

I'm not sure how post offices in these states could even respond.

By laughing and ignoring it, having the Governors and Attorneys General of those states countermand it with their own executive orders / statements, just straight up saying that this is plainly obviously unconstitutional.

They could then also threaten legal action against anyone at the USPS who does not listen to them.

Its yet another Constitutional Crisis, any way you look at it, but, its not like there's just no possible response.

The President is straight up demanding that Postal Workers engage in a conspiracy to, amongst other things... tamper with people's mail.

So, any manager or supervisor who orders that be done? 30,000 counts of mail fraud, you're arrested and go to jail forever.

Set up a state tip line for USPS workers to report anything like that happening.

The effect is sowing further distrust in voting by mail and suppressing the vote of people who are being targeted by the government in other areas. In those states anyone who knows citizens who were targeted by ICE could easily assume the same harassment of citizens will happen with mail in votes as well.

Just because it isn't feasible to implement doesn't mean the chilling effect won't happen.

The federal government has no control over voting, it is 100% controlled by the states. The post offices are not legally allowed to do anything to the ballots other than deliver them.

One more Biden/Democratic failure. They had four years to get rid of that traitor who was systematically destroying the USPS, and after trying absolutely nothing, they were out of ideas, and he's STILL there. They aren't any more effective when they have power, than when they don't. Fucking LOSERS.

and the executive order should be struck down immediately, but who fucking knows at this point.

1: The executive order is blocked by a federal court.

2: Supreme Court issues a stay on that block, allowing the EO to continue until the Supreme Court is able to review it.

3: Supreme Court slow-walks their review of it, delaying until after the election.

4: Supreme Court 'does the right thing' and decides it's unconstitutional ... after the election, once it's too late.