Civil Politics (7/31/26): "You Can Get Used to Anything When Money's Involved"
Aug 1, 2026 · 57 min · 22 segments
Further Reading: ‘Not standard’ for Taylor Farms to ask White House to delay cyclospora recall, ex-FDA head says…
Aug 1, 2026 · 57 min · 22 segments
Further Reading: ‘Not standard’ for Taylor Farms to ask White House to delay cyclospora recall, ex-FDA head says…
Michael DowHostJonraHost
One of them was a couple of weeks ago, Sue mentioned that she'd been hearing – I think she mentioned Tom Hartman had reported it, but a proposed policy change at the U.S.
Postal Service that would lead them to not – cancel or not cancel postmark ballots in a timely manner so that to make it harder for people who were voting absentee to actually have things postmarked by Election Day, which is the law in most states.
One, if you go to a post office and hand them mail, outgoing mail, you know, the proper stamps and whatever, and ask them to cancel it in front of you, you know, to postmark it right there, they will.
But if you actually walk up to the service counter at a post office and ask them to postmark your mail, they will.
She also said that there had been talk about a policy to make that happen, to make it harder for the post office to deal with mail-in ballots and just generally degrade the quality of the service they provide, which is not at all popular with anybody working at the post office.
But I think the ACLU filed a lawsuit and the whole thing sort of fizzled out before it even got started.
In any event, she said, look, you know, if you drop something in a mailbox and the post office collects it, they then take it to a processing center and they process it as fast as they can in the order they receive it.
So technically, if you if anyone drops a ballot, you know, a mail in ballot in a post office box.
It won't actually get through the processing and get postmarked on the day you send it.
So it's a non-zero chance that it might wind up getting postmarked by Election Day in this hypothetical situation.
But that's purely because just that's, you know, they're dealing with millions, if not billions of pieces of mail.
One of them was a couple of weeks ago, Sue mentioned that she'd been hearing – I think she mentioned Tom Hartman had reported it, but a proposed policy change at the U.S.
Postal Service that would lead them to not – cancel or not cancel postmark ballots in a timely manner so that to make it harder for people who were voting absentee to actually have things postmarked by Election Day, which is the law in most states.
One, if you go to a post office and hand them mail, outgoing mail, you know, the proper stamps and whatever, and ask them to cancel it in front of you, you know, to postmark it right there, they will.
But if you actually walk up to the service counter at a post office and ask them to postmark your mail, they will.
She also said that there had been talk about a policy to make that happen, to make it harder for the post office to deal with mail-in ballots and just generally degrade the quality of the service they provide, which is not at all popular with anybody working at the post office.
But I think the ACLU filed a lawsuit and the whole thing sort of fizzled out before it even got started.
In any event, she said, look, you know, if you drop something in a mailbox and the post office collects it, they then take it to a processing center and they process it as fast as they can in the order they receive it.
So technically, if you if anyone drops a ballot, you know, a mail in ballot in a post office box.
It won't actually get through the processing and get postmarked on the day you send it.
So it's a non-zero chance that it might wind up getting postmarked by Election Day in this hypothetical situation.
But that's purely because just that's, you know, they're dealing with millions, if not billions of pieces of mail.
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