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On partisanship, the rule is more likely to disproportionately affect Democratic-leaning voters on average, since Democrats have voted by mail at meaningfully higher rates than Republicans in recent elections, though academic research on mail-voting's net partisan effect has found it to be smaller and less one-sided than often assumed, and impacts vary significantly by state.\n\n**What the rule actually does:** Under Trump's March 2026 executive order, USPS finalized a rule requiring state election officials to upload lists of mail voters' names/addresses to a new \"Federal Ballot Mail Portal,\" and requiring standardized ballot envelopes with unique, voter-specific barcodes. 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Do not copy the invocation verbatim, take the first six words, strip @mentions and leave punctuation holes, use a TID or a title that starts with \"Context on\", copy the compact Bluesky reply, or include @handles unless the handle itself is the subject. No trailing period unless it is part of an abbreviation. When disposition is \"no_reply\", this may be an\n   empty string.\n\n3. compact_reply: The exact text for one Bluesky post. This must be nonempty, plain text (no\n   markdown), and at most 275 Unicode grapheme clusters so it fits in a\n   single post. Open by directly answering each asked question (yes / no / unknown / contested,\n   or the equivalent short answer), then the minimum supporting facts. Do not lead with\n   background, a news lede, process recap, or both-sides summary if that leaves\n   the question unanswered. If a question is a value-laden label (voter suppression, fraud,\n   racism, etc.), still answer it: say whether the evidence supports that characterization\n   as a finding, a contested judgment, or unknown — do not substitute only a dispute recap.\n   If there are multiple questions, answer all of them when they fit in the grapheme budget;\n   if they do not, answer in order and finish the rest in full_response. Never silently drop\n   a later question. Do not shorten a factual claim by truncating it. When disposition is\n   \"no_reply\", this may be an empty string.\n\n4. full_response: A complete, well-reasoned research writeup in markdown. Start with a\n   bottom-line paragraph that answers the same question(s) the same way, then background\n   and sources. Include methodology, sources, findings, and conclusions. This field has no\n   length limit and should be thorough and complete. When disposition is \"no_reply\", this\n   may be an empty string.\n","thinking":{"type":"adaptive"},"tool_choice":{"type":"auto"},"tools":[{"allowed_callers":["direct"],"max_uses":5,"name":"web_search","response_inclusion":"excluded","type":"web_search_20260318"},{"allowed_callers":["direct"],"citations":{"enabled":false},"max_content_tokens":10000,"max_uses":8,"name":"web_fetch","response_inclusion":"excluded","type":"web_fetch_20260318"}]},"reply_part3_record":{"createdAt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00.000010Z","readerUrl":"https://standard-reader.app/a/did:plc:anbhmngzs3exwbq47xxzogk4/3mul2noousm23","reply":{"root":{"cid":"bafyreig2hl6epovaerj3rn3osczzuf2hyd6epv7kaz75oq4akxgl5maosi","uri":"at://did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mukia34yfs2b"}},"text":"full response"},"contains_video":false,"status":"complete","actor_handle":"jonathanwarden.com","reply_uri":"at://did:plc:anbhmngzs3exwbq47xxzogk4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mul2noousm24","reader_ready_at":"2026-09-05T18:39:03.433152Z","selected_reply":"No firm number exists; it's currently unknowable. There's no official estimate of how many voters could be blocked. A USPS whistleblower (via Sen. Blumenthal) warned a single unverified ballot in a batch could cause USPS to reject the entire batch, e.g. 10,000 ballots at once. On partisan impact:","standard_site_publication_cid":null,"target_uri":null,"limit_notice_uri":null,"invocation_text":null,"actor_did":"did:plc:33avz2l7y5scw3abq3lmylns"}