[EL] Postal Service Issues

[Jeff Hauser]

1. That a policy might be applied generally and more broadly than necessary
to achieve its specific ends is... unsurprising?
2. It's not conspiratorial to take the president's words literally and/or
seriously.
3.  I added some highlights here, but this graphic from the Washington Post
is... not Portland Oregon heavy at all.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/usps-states-delayed-mail-in-ballots/2020/08/14/64bf3c3c-dcc7-11ea-8051-d5f887d73381_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-high_uspsstates-230pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans

On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 1:39 PM Ilya Shapiro <IShapiro at cato.org> wrote:

> Yes, clearly Trump is going to win Oregon by removing mailboxes. Sometimes
> you have to check your premises. Indeed, all these fights over
> mail-in/absentee balloting are a phony war because none of the extreme
> policies either way are in competitive states (with the possible exception
> of Nevada).
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> Ilya Shapiro
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> On Aug 15, 2020, at 1:33 PM, RuthAlice Anderson <
> ruthalice.anderson at comcast.net> wrote:
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> Here in Portland they have been removing mailboxes. It is a fiction that
> they only removed mailboxes from places that had two. There was only one as
> you can see in this photo memorializing the mailbox removed about 20 blocks
> east of my home. Portlanders have planted flowers in potholes, so this is
> not surprising.
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> RuthAlice
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