Supreme Court Allows Trump Plan to Restrict Mail-In Voting, for Now

mikhael 15 points 13 comments August 24, 2026
www.nytimes.com · View on Hacker News

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msie

Alas, evil wins again. The fix is in.

firefax

this is why dropboxes at local election offices are of vital importance (and possibly, a militia, if things get bad enough.)

like_any_other

Nearly every country in the world restricts mail-in voting (context that is predictably omitted from the article [1]): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_voting [1] At least from the first six paragraphs that I was able to unpaywall.

mandeepj

The same supreme court who refused to take the guy off ballots in 2024 by saying they can't interfere in the elections - is repeatedly interfering in the elections this year.

cosmicgadget

It's kind of genius - use the one federally-controlled element of voting to disenfranchise your opponents, doing it so late that the courts can't rule in time. UPS, Fedex, DHL, and Amazon have the chance to do the funniest, most patriotic thing.

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