Please Proceed With Your Plans to Vote by Mail Just have a backup plan, if possible, to vote in-person

Chris Bowers - Over the weekend, I sent an email from Bowers News Media .... explaining how the Trump administration was adding new layers of bureaucracy to delivering mail-in ballots that could result in delays, or worse, for some voters. I also published a version of this email as an article here on Wolves and Sheep: “Will you receive a mail-in ballot this year?“

I have received a number concerned emails in response to this, so I wanted to make one thing absolutely clear:  DO NOT ABANDON YOUR PLANS TO VOTE BY MAIL THIS YEAR.

Also, as I wrote in response to one of the questions in yesterday’s version of Ask Us Anything, do not advise others to abandon their plans to vote by mail.

While we do not know exactly what will happen as a result of this additional bureaucracy, the most likely outcome is that for the vast, vast majority of people who attempt to vote by mail, everything will be fine...

Proceed with any plans you had to vote by mail, but develop a backup plan, if possible, to vote in person (I know that voting in person is not possible in all states, or for all people). You can do this through Vote.org and Vote America.

No matter where you live, please consider directly supporting the legal fund for Democratic secretaries of state who are leading the lawsuits against the Trump administration’s attempts to interfere with the way our elections are administered.

You can do the second action through the Democracy Legal Defense Fund, operated by the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State (DASS), which is the national Democratic party committee that works to elect Democrats in secretary of state elections around the country.