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If you want to vote by mail please do so as soon as you can and consider dropping it off at the counter where they will postmark it right away.

Also if you live in a state where you’re allowed to photograph your ballot consider doing so to have proof you voted a certain way.

Note that as a counterpoint the federal register website claims they are just clarifying language to improve public understanding: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/12/2025-15266/postmarks-and-postal-possession

I didn’t check that document very closely yet.

  • einlander@lemmy.world
    18·
    4 hours ago

    This will make it easier for nefarious parties to just hold onto mail as long as possible before stamping it.

    • Serinus@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 hour ago

      Really, please just vote in person this time if you can.

      Unless you’ll be intimidated by National Guard or ICE, in which case just vote as soon as possible.

      Really just vote as soon as possible anyway. We all know there’s going to be illegal interference in the election. The question is to what extent and what kind. Do what you can to predict and avoid problems.

      • 18107@aussie.zoneEnglish
        5·
        1 hour ago

        Some of the voter suppression involved having a single voting place for a large area, and closing it at 5pm even though there was a very long line of people still waiting to vote.

        If you can’t guarantee your postal vote will be counted, and you can’t guarantee that you’ll get into a voting booth, what do you do?

        I agree with the sentiment of voting however you can. It’s one of the few ways that people get to decide how the country is run. I’m just angry that this right is being gradually taken away.