Our beloved Postal Service has advised people (quietly) that it may not be able to continue as a going concern: “However, the Postal Service remains concerned that this measure will be insufficient to enable the Postal Service to withstand the significant downturn in our business that could directly result from the pandemic. Under a worst case scenario, such downturn could result in the Postal Service having insufficient liquidity to continue operations.” In addition, postage on mail-in ballots has been hiked from 22 cents to $0.55 AND, in a policy dictated by Postbungler General Louis DeJoy, election ballots will be treated as bulk mail, i.e. very low priority.
What has this to with gambling? Sports ballot is on the ballot in Maryland (definitely) and California (probably). Remember how it just squeaked through by the very slimmest of majorities in Colorado two years ago? A USPS collapse or suppression of vote-by-mail could damn gaming ballot measures in multiple states, risking a reprise (or worse) of the Colorado situation. Speaking of which … the Rocky Mountain State has a ballot question coming up which would raise loss limits (the lowest in the U.S.) and allow new games. We don’t want to see that going down to defeat, do we?
“At the risk of sounding overly stern: When more than 32,000 of your fellow citizens have died over the course of a single season, you have not won any sort of ‘victory.’ All you have done is come out the other side of a devastating tragedy. Instead of boasting, you ought to be figuring out what you could have done better so that you can do better in case—God forbid—there is a next time.”—Noah Rothman on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo‘s 
“In general, our core customers have not been deterred by the social distancing measures, limited amenities or masking requirements … We intend to keep this philosophy in place after the crisis is over. We think largely that many of the costs will stay out. [Boyd] will not simply return to the old way of doing business.”—Boyd Gaming CEO Keith Smith.
