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OA1298 - Voting rights attorney Jenessa is back with a sprawling tour of election chaos, starting with the Supreme Court's unsigned order in USPS v. California: nobody knows the vote count, and the real fight on the merits waits for 2028. Then: the USPS whistleblower letter reveals a system built on oral-only instructions and batch ballot rejection for any single problem, from a mismatch to a misscanned barcode. Meanwhile, a district court in DSCC v. Trump adds another layer: an injunction that even bars states from volunteering. Next, a USCIS whistleblower letter exposes an unlawful voter-fraud investigation targeting naturalized citizens, built on private corporate databases and vibes, with data gaps the training video promises will be filled by, quote, “supplemental magic.” Finally, Missouri redistricting: how the chaos unfolded from dueling maps to a secretary of state whose compliance plan was apparently to “evaluate options” until a judge told him otherwise, all captured in a contempt hearing you have to hear to believe.

Cases and sources discussed:

USPS v California, 609 U.S. ___ (2026)

DSCC v Trump, (D.D.C. 2026)

USPS whistleblower letter (August 31, 2026)

USCIS whistleblower letter (September 13, 2026)

Hugh Cameron (September 10, 2026), Missouri’s Midterm Map Fight: How the Chaos Unfolded, Newsweek.

Contempt hearing for Hoskins at Missouri Supreme Court

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Unlikable Internet Goblin

I just can't trust it at all at this point, so my mail in ballot will be dropped off at a ballot drop box directly.

Radar_eye_level

Okay, this is the BEST episode to watched baked out of your mind!! Omg! I'm crying!

General Contact Unit Problem Child

I sometimes wonder if the SCOTUS had gone majority conservative in like 2003 that would have had the effect of making the GOP moderate on stuff like abortion rights because the backlash to stuff like Roe being overturned would have happened while the party was less insane

Chris Conley

I'm not sure I would characterize the GOP at the height of the 9-11/Afghanistan/Iraq jingoism trifecta as "less insane". Differently, maybe, but not less.

Mountain court is now in session. All highs

Interestingly, Magic IS a recognized form of record keeping under the law. That is to say, Magic the coding language - a precursor of UniPASS and derivative of MUMPS - is used by some smaller hospital HCISs to keep patient records. It's a weird, fairly opaque programming language that was closer than most of the newer ones to machine language, so it was incredibly efficient at what it did and also almost unreadable and difficult to learn. It's been mostly phased out in favor of systems like EPIC but it's still in use in some places that can't afford to switch off - and, honestly, it works more efficiently than EPIC it just doesn't work with as many outside systems