This election will be a Balkanized crazy-quilt of local postal incidences. We can only hope they are held together by good people who ensure that the systems in our country continue to flow with integrity.
But does this integrity apply to our patchwork of election officials and the pattern of federal interference with the postal mission?
Who cuts back post office spending ahead of an unprecedented effort of mail-in ballots?
Time to call suppression what it is, and put a stop to it: simply don’t accept it.
The man in the White House has called into question the very bedrock of our democracy, forecasting fraud if he isn’t elected.
With all the anti-democratic actions he is taking, why should we believe him if he claims to have won the election?
I started with a belief in the government‘s inertia—an inertia may still win the day, and protect us all—but at what point does one reach the conclusion that one side is subverting the democratic process?
And let’s not even talk about Supreme Court interventions. My wife asked the other day, when contemplating the climate crisis, “what would have happened, if Al Gore had been elected?”
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We are at a turning point in American, if not global history, and the gloves are off.
We can accept nothing less than fairness in this election.
—Vote
—Vote early
—Check, check, and double check your polling options
—Accept no interference at the polls
—Let no one take you off the rolls
—Persist
America is counting on you.
The world is counting on you.
You can do this.
We need to win.