Eric L 🇺🇸⚾️

Accountant, Cardinals fan, History buff

[Eric L 🇺🇸⚾️ @EricL1968]

@iZOOM7 Every industry seems to be on the analytics band wagon. Analytics are a way to evaluate past performance. However, like the stock market, past performance does not guarantee future results in any sport or industry. #MLB #STLCards #Analytics

[Eric L 🇺🇸⚾️ @EricL1968]

@ScottPresler @SenDuckworth @SenatorDurbin won't vote for the SAVE America Act because they need to cheat to get elected. Durbin can save something of his reputation by voting for it before retiring, but I doubt it. #ProveMeWrong

[Eric L 🇺🇸⚾️ @EricL1968]

@cardscookie And I was busy at work. I saw the post when I stopped for lunch at 11:00

[John @MagaGrunt1]

🇺🇸Why is this not the norm? This should be the law in all 50 states.🇺🇸

[Eric L 🇺🇸⚾️ @EricL1968]

@alt_w_v_g The auditors must not be very good.

[Eric L 🇺🇸⚾️ @EricL1968]

@AugieNash Keep the pictures coming. No such thing as too much Cardinals history

[Eric L 🇺🇸⚾️ @EricL1968]

@MatthewNichol5 I think IL voters do vote red. It's the mail in ballots without any chain of custody that makes IL blue. Just look at what is going on in CA

[Eric L 🇺🇸⚾️ @EricL1968]

@rachford91787 He needs a day off tomorrow

[Eric L 🇺🇸⚾️ @EricL1968]

@cardscookie Most of mine are red, but don't tell Dave. 🤣

[Eric L 🇺🇸⚾️ @EricL1968]

@JFeRg52 I just want to move down to St Louis so I'm close enough to go to any game I want

[Eric L 🇺🇸⚾️ @EricL1968]

@JFeRg52 340 work days left for going into the office.

[Eric L 🇺🇸⚾️ @EricL1968]

@cardscookie We just lost the 2nd challenge in the 2nd inning 😳☹️

[Eric L 🇺🇸⚾️ @EricL1968]

@SenatorDurbin They shouldn't have been in the country to begin with. What about the victims of the violent crimes that illegal aliens have committed and their families? Politicians supporting illegal aliens over the citizens of this country should be tried for treason

[Eric L 🇺🇸⚾️ @EricL1968]

@cardinalsgifs @C70 Walker 5th inning LF

[Eric L 🇺🇸⚾️ @EricL1968]

#ThatsAWinnner! #StLCards

[Eric L 🇺🇸⚾️ @EricL1968]

@cigarmike First batter got to him but he pitched well after that

[Eric L 🇺🇸⚾️ @EricL1968]

@rachford91787 @BBGreatMoments Willie McGee might have been faster

[Eric L 🇺🇸⚾️ @EricL1968]

@StlMac_ @FormerRedbirds I think it should be VS2

[Peter Bernegger @PeterBernegger]

Most people have no idea what President Trump’s new election-mail Executive Order USPS rule actually does.

1. Plain English: it creates a chain-of-custody system for mail ballot envelopes in federal elections.

2. Not the vote, the envelope.

3. Under the proposed USPS rule, states using mail-in or absentee ballots for federal elections would have to use standardized ballot envelopes:

-Official Election Mail logo
-Automation-compatible design
-Unique Intelligent Mail barcode
-USPS review of envelope/barcode placement

4. That means the ballot envelope becomes trackable.

5. States or election mailers would also submit key data through a USPS portal:

-Voter name
-Voter address
-Outbound envelope barcode
-Return envelope barcode
-Originating election office state

6. So officials can know: this ballot envelope was sent out, and this return envelope came back.

7. USPS would review outbound ballot mail before accepting it.

-Is it in the right envelope?
-Does it have the proper barcode?
-Is it going to someone enrolled on that state’s mail-
ballot participation list?

8. If not, the mailing goes back to the election mailer to fix.

9. The broader Executive Order also directs DHS + SSA to help create State Citizenship Lists using federal citizenship, naturalization, SSA, SAVE, and related data.

10. Those lists go to state election officials before federal elections.

11. Important: states still run voter registration. The federal list does not register anyone by itself.

12. Bottom line: this is not “tracking your vote.”

13. It tracks the envelope, creates a sent-vs-returned audit trail, helps flag discrepancies, preserves ballot-envelope records, and leaves states responsible for their voter rolls.

14. Chain of custody is not suppression. It is basic election accountability.

15. I used “proposed rule” because USPS has not finalized the rule yet.

16. The proposal says it applies to general, special, and runoff federal elections, not primaries or UOCAVA military/overseas ballots, and it requires unique barcodes on outbound and return envelopes.

17. The rule would require voter name/address plus outbound and return envelope barcode data through a USPS portal, with updates allowed until the last day ballots may be mailed under state law.

18. It also says USPS does not alter voter eligibility or manage state voter rolls.

19. The EO separately directs DHS/SSA to create State Citizenship Lists and directs DOJ enforcement and five-year preservation of participation records, excluding cast ballots.

20. There is one more thing it does, all I'll say is, watch out ballot mills. 😎