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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.

  • yetAnotherUser
    21·
    vor 4 Tagen

    I still don’t see how stamping immediately could reduce the risk of abuse.

    Anyone intent on doing so in a position of power can still do so. Maybe they have a stamp for a future date, maybe they “lose” certain mail, maybe they do not empty any of those election mail boxes the week before an election.

    • ngdev@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      vor 4 Tagen

      you specifically said you dont see how it would be subject to abuse, not that [different thing than what i was talking about] is less risk prone

      • yetAnotherUser
        11·
        vor 4 Tagen

        I mean, everything is subject to abuse. The relevant factor is the likelihood and difficulty of such abuse, isn’t it? And I don’t really see how using the stamped date as an authority reduces either or how not doing so increases either. The way you’d commit abuse changes, sure, but doesn’t make abuse any easier/harder in my opinion, just different.

        • ngdev@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          vor 4 Tagen

          again, youre just talking about something entirely different. you said you dont see how a certain system was subject to abuse and i made up a possible way. all this talk about some system being more or less subject to abuse than another has nothing to do with the fact you said you couldnt see how a certain system was subject to abuse. i am not making a claim about any system being better than another so i have no idea why youre bringing that up

          • yetAnotherUser
            1·
            vor 4 Tagen

            Fair enough, looks like we communicated past each other to some extent. I took your first comment as arguing this system was more subject to abuse.

            I edited my comment to better reflect my original intent.