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by AlisdairO 2055 days ago
In fairness, there's already clear evidence of attempts to subvert the election via manipulation of the USPS. It's not really an 'extraordinary' claim to suggest that Trump might attempt to manipulate the vote via other means - although I do agree that evidence is required to make the assertion.
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TMWNN 2055 days ago
>In fairness, there's already clear evidence of attempts to subvert the election via manipulation of the USPS.

Yet you fail to provide said clear evidence.

There were a lot of nonsense allegations made which conflated delays in USPS parcel processing (volume skyrocketing because of COVID19) and flats processing (volume dropping for same reason, and COVID19-related absences), and related logistics adjustment (removing flats processing machines), and normal attrition/adjustment in USPS drop box locations, with "Trump is trying to stop the vote!" I wrote more about this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24290622 .

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AlisdairO 2055 days ago
The president himself has admitted that he wishes to starve the USPS to limit widespread mail in voting: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-admits-he-wants-block-... . This in a pandemic where vote by mail is something any sane government should be supporting enthusiastically.

Potentially relatedly, right now there's 300,000 ballots missing/delayed: https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2020/1103/USPS-won-t-... .

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