Mail-In-Voting: Appeals Court Hands Trump Big Win

"The court ruled that the USPS may require states to turn over voter rolls before mailing out ballots."

 The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

"The critics of this rule complain that all of this would significantly expand the USPS role in elections. This is nonsense. As Palmer points out, “USPS is already significantly involved in elections because of its handling of millions of ballots." 

"In March of 2026 President Trump issued Executive Order 14399, “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections,” directing the U.S. Postal Service to create a rule whereby any state that intends to send mail-in ballots to voters must provide a list of those eligible to participate in federal elections or the USPS “shall not transmit” those ballots. The obvious goal of the EO is to keep ballots from reaching people who are not eligible to vote. This predictably produced several lawsuits. On Friday, however, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay on a lower court injunction that had the effect of permitting the U.S. Postal Service to move forward with the proposed mail-in ballot rule.

"The court’s order does not resolve the underlying lawsuits but permits the USPS to move forward while the case is reviewed. “This ruling is a win for election integrity and would have significant implications for states like California that refuse to submit their voter rolls to verify compliance with federal election laws,” said First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli. California is not the only state that refuses to allow its voter rolls to be audited. Every “blue” state in the nation is actively flouting the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) and the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA), both of which require all states to conduct voter roll maintenance.

"Curiously, most states with GOP governing trifectas — those with Republican governors and legislatures — have been transparent with the Department of Justice concerning their voter rolls. An NBC report grudgingly admits that Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio, Indiana, Texas, Alaska, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, South Carolina, Florida, Missouri, Kansas and Montana are all cooperating. Meanwhile, the remaining red states are negotiating with the DOJ. The Democrat-controlled states are all fighting to hide their voter rolls. California is leading the resistance, and it is little wonder. Its management of mail-in ballots in the 2022 midterms was utterly chaotic. As the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) phrases it: 

 After accounting for polling place votes and rejected ballots in November 2022, there were more than 10 million ballots left outstanding, meaning election officials do not know what happened to them. It is fair to assume that the bulk of these were ignored or ultimately thrown out by the intended recipients. But, under mass mail elections, we can only assume what happened. Mail voting practices have an insurmountable information gap. The public cannot know how many ballots were disregarded, delivered to wrong mailboxes, or even withheld from the proper recipient.  . . .More...

German Engineers Tested a Captured Sherman — What They Discovered Stunned Them

Yet for years, the main selling point for any delicate equipment has been the phrase, "German-engineered".

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"That was the reason a generation of German engineers after the war quietly stopped building tanks the way they used to build them and started building them the way the Americans had." 

"In the spring of 1943, the finest tank engineers in Nazi Germany were handed an American tank captured in the deserts of Tunisia. They spent the next two years trying to understand it. What they wrote in their private reports, in the technical language of men who could not afford to lie to themselves, was something Berlin did not want to hear, and something the American soldiers who had built these tanks and bled inside them would never live to know.

"This is the story of one Sherman and what it did to the engineers of the Third Reich when they finally took it apart. The wind came off the Dorsale Mountains at dusk, carrying grit and the smell of burnt oil. Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, mid-February 1943. The battle was over. What remained was a landscape of dead machines.

American tanks lay everywhere. Some were burned black, hatches thrown open, turrets twisted at angles no factory ever intended. Others sat almost peaceful in the dust, engines silent, tracks intact, as if their crews had simply walked away. Which, in many cases, they had. At Sidi Bouzid and in the days that followed at Kasserine Pass, the US Second Corps had learned what the Afrika Korps already knew, that the desert punished mistakes without mercy, and that green troops paid the highest price. But among the wrecks, a different discovery was being made. German recovery teams moved between the hulks in the early mornings, before the sun turned the metal too hot to touch. They were looking for intelligence, for maps, for anything the retreating Americans had left behind. What they found was a tank, an M4 Sherman, standing upright on its tracks, undamaged, its engine cold, but its interior almost untouched. The crew had bailed out in a panic and run. The machine itself was intact. The men who found it climbed inside. They ran gloved hands over the seats, over the controls, over the strange American labels stamped in English on every gauge. And then, because that was their job, they tried to start it. The engine caught on the first attempt. For a long moment, no one spoke.". . . More...

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