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I think it's absolutely going to disenfranchise some people, and for some that's a welcome side effect, but I've seen these trends with the post office long enough to believe that's just a secondary effect.
There's been an effort for years to make the post office more profitable by centralizing things more and more and that means downsizing local offices and centralizing processing. That means nothing gets processed until it gets to a regional facility.
I think the issue is not that they are doing this specifically to disenfranchise voters so much as they don't care that it does.
the whole "make the postal service profitable" is such a bonkers way of thinking about it too. its a service that i fund by paying taxes and i get cheap mail service. who would get the profit anyway?
There is a stupid conservative line of thinking that government services should fund themselves and turn a profit so that taxes don't have to be used.
Perfectly acceptable when you suggest the post office but you suggest the Army hold bake sales to fund their tanks and everyone loses their fucking minds.
Did nobody consider taxes and voting? Of course they did. Someone in that organization knew exactly what would happen.