Vote By Mail Attack

The federal government is trying to control who gets a ballot.

Yesterday Postmaster General David Steiner told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that the Postal Service will not deliver ballots to voters in states that refuse to turn over their voter lists to the federal government ahead of time.

Michigan Senator Gary Peters asked him directly and Steiner answered, “Under our proposed regulation, no. We would tell the state that we need the manifest.”

The same day, Trump held a bipartisan housing bill hostage — one that passed the Senate 85 to 5 — until Congress passes the SAVE Act, his proof-of-citizenship voting bill he calls a national emergency.

Created in 1775, for 250 years the postal service has carried the nation’s election mail and asked no state for a list.

A March 31 executive order from Donald Trump changed that. States must now send the administration a list of every voter who requested a mail ballot, thirty days before ballots go out. Voters left off the list receive nothing.

Eight states and Washington, D.C. mail a ballot to every registered voter. New Hampshire Senator Maggie Hassan called the rule blatantly illegal, and forty-seven senators have signed a letter demanding the Postal Service withdraw it.

The federal government is trying to control who gets a ballot.