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> The United States Postal Service has spent months developing a U.S. Federal Ballot Mail Portal to provide election officials with a simple, secure, and efficient way to share lists of individuals receiving ballots by mail in their respective states.

Why? Your job is to transfer pieces of mail from one place to another. Just continue that. Everything else is manufacturing a problem where there was none.

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>Everything else is manufacturing a problem where there was none.

That's this administrations exact intended purpose for forcing this.

Their job is whatever the government tells them it is, things like this don't just spawn out of thin air, there's usually rationale for it[0].

The post office already does way more than you think it does. Like identity verification on behalf of the government and tracking which houses are considered "vacant" or not.

It would be nice to focus the USPS, but all these extra services have to be done by _some entity_, otherwise you can't have the final result. In this case, the result is a functional, auditable mail in ballot system

[0]: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/06/02/2026-10...

"Their job is whatever the government tells them it is"

Sounds like authoritarianism.

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