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By VDC staff
Vermont’s plans to mail ballots to all active registered voters for the November general election remain unchanged – for now, anyway – despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Monday that removed one legal barrier to the Trump administration’s proposed new restrictions on voting by mail, Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hanzas said Tuesday.
The Supreme Court on Aug. 24 lifted a lower-court injunction against portions of President Donald Trump’s March executive order concerning federal elections and mail voting. The 6-3 decision in Trump v. California concluded that the challenge to federal directives was premature at that stage, rather than deciding whether the administration’s proposed election rules are ultimately lawful.
The executive order directs the federal government to develop citizenship lists and calls for new U.S. Postal Service requirements governing election mail. Among other provisions, it directs USPS not to transmit mail-in or absentee ballots from individual voters unless states have enrolled those voters in a system tied to federal eligibility lists.
However, another federal court injunction remains in effect blocking implementation of the USPS provisions for the November election. The Supreme Court itself emphasized that its ruling does not establish that future measures implementing the executive order are lawful and leaves open additional court challenges.
That means Vermont election officials are continuing preparations under the state’s existing universal vote-by-mail system, Copeland Hanzas said.
“I am disappointed by the Supreme Court’s ruling yesterday, but it does not change the status quo: USPS cannot move forward with its rule-making process until all legal challenges are resolved, and plenty remain,” Copeland Hanzas said.
“As such, my office and Vermont’s municipal clerks will continue our work to prepare for the General Election this November, which we expect will employ the usual universal vote-by-mail format Vermonters have become accustomed to,” she said.
Copeland Hanzas said her office will continue working with the Vermont Attorney General’s Office to monitor the litigation and “defend Vermont’s elections.”
The litigation is moving quickly because the November election is approaching. USPS has developed new requirements that would require states to provide voter information and use new markings and barcodes on ballot envelopes, but their implementation remains subject to the ongoing court fight.
The Supreme Court’s decision leaves open the possibility that the dispute could return to the courts once federal agencies take final action. The Court said federal courts generally review final rules rather than proposed regulations and stressed that Monday’s decision did not determine whether measures ultimately adopted by the administration would be legal.
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Why would anyone trust the USPS with handling the ballots anyway? The local carriers and office workers are not a concern, but now practically all of the mail from NW Vermont goes out of state for processing. The local USPS workers don’t even know the exact routes and facilities the mail goes through, and those can change at any time.
Also consider that the unions inside the USPS are not politically unbiased: they strongly favor whatever candidate might make them the best offer… they have a direct stake in who gets elected.
This new universal mail in ballot system is anything but transparent the way free and fair democratic elections should be.
Surprise!! Vermont is going to follow a SCOTUS decision!!!
That’s because Vermont is a bunch of criminal, crooked domestic terrorist that are deliberately trying to destroy Vermont. These worthless Democrats would not win an election if they ran a legal and legitimate election. They’re also manipulating local voting because South Burlington school district would’ve never passed their school budget, but they seem to miraculously come up with enough votes. That’s what happens when you have illegals and refugees voting that shouldn’t even be in this state. Stop voting for these communists!
Hopefully this turns into a FAFO moment and leads to many more for Vermont.
Copeland Hanzas said, “we expect will employ the usual universal vote-by-mail format Vermonters have become accustomed to,” I don’t know about Copeland Hanzas, but over the last 50+ years, I have been accustomed to voting in person.
I keep hearing that federal election integrity is an 80% for and 20% against issue. So how does a Vermont politician, elected in a statewide election, explain her support for the 20% and not the 80%?
Her rational is simple…..orange man bad. President Trump could cure cancer and people like her would be advocating for carcinogens and highlighting the self empowerment and personal growth that can be gained by a cancer diagnosis.
Easy, she doesn’t care what you want, all she cares about is what her communist masters tell her what yo do. The agenda of destroying the constitution and the nation must be advanced.
Is there anything else that Vermont can do to try and end all federal funding and programs? Do they think there will be no consequences?
Vermont is a very backward state. That condition was exploited by the communist soviets when they paid for and planted Bernie Sanders in our midst to make Vermont the test case for communist take over. Let’s face it, Brooklyn Bernie was successful. He even made Burlington a soviet sister city. Unless real Vermonters, real Americans, are willing to drive the democrat/communist machine out of this state then we are doomed to live in the filth and squalor that is the trademark of communism. NO ONE should use a mail-in ballot. Get off your ass and go to the polls! Do not vote for democrats/progressives/independents/communists!