Daily Take: Is the Post Office About to Decide the 2026 Midterms?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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A quiet USPS postmark change could turn “on time” ballots into “too late” ballots by the millions…
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| 1:12.1 | Republicans are starting to do everything they can to rig the election. Just a week ago, |
| 1:17.2 | for example, Trump's Postal Service changed the rules about getting your mail-in ballot postmarked, |
| 1:22.0 | so it'll be counted. Instead of postmarking letters when they receive, post offices will now |
| 1:26.8 | postmark them when they get processed, which may happen days later. |
| 1:31.5 | In the 2024 presidential election, the feds estimated that around 104,000 mail-in ballot stationwide weren't counted because they arrived late. |
| 1:40.4 | With this change, the number this fall, and for 2008, could be in the millions. |
| 1:45.6 | Meanwhile, Republican secretaries of state are enthusiastically purging voters from the rolls as they get ready for this fall. |
| 1:52.5 | Remember, a reporter and economist Greg Pallas found using official federal and state numbers that in 2024, quote, Trump lost. |
| 2:00.1 | That is, if all legal voters were allowed to vote, if all legal |
| 2:02.8 | ballots were counted, Trump would have lost the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. |
| 2:08.2 | Vice President Kamala Harris would have won the presidency with 286 electoral votes. |
| 2:14.2 | And if not for the mass purge of voters of color, if not for the mass disqualification of |
| 2:18.2 | provisional and mailing ballots, if not for the new mass vigilante challenges and swing states, |
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