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Supreme Court leaves the Post Office's mail-ballot rules blocked and the President calls the Court "a shell of their original selves," a phrase the justices have declined, so far, to diagnose ◆ Turkey's gold is in the drawer and the government is, quietly, worried; the woman interviewed said it has "outlived four presidents" and was "not leaving for a few interest points" ◆ The 10-year yield is back above 5 percent, a number we had not seen since before most of you were born, and the Fed is, as if on cue, about to raise rates ◆ A math shape that can't repeat just figured out how to bend light, and the team's status on the project is "the shape is cooperating," which, for a shape defined by its refusal to cooperate, is a victory ◆ Zay Flowers had 150 yards in the opener and a hamstring, and the Ravens' official position is "monitoring," which the team is, on this record, doing on a Thursday basis ◆ A new Dallas restaurant is paying influencers in pajamas that retail for $158, and the $1,000 gift card is, per the people promised one, an aspiration ◆ From the first tee of his own oceanfront course in Doonbeg, the President declared a unified Ireland "fantastic" and is, per the White House, the most qualified person in the room to say so ◆ The AI chiefs agreed on a speed over the weekend and the task force measuring it is, per two of the four, possibly measuring it wrong; the needle on the whiteboard says "slow," the needle on the tape says "buy," the needle on the Senate calendar says "next quarter" ◆ The $2.99 Trader Joe's mini tote waitlist has a support group with a meeting, and the 6 a.m. Halloween run is, per the campers, "a thing now," which is the phrase that made it official ◆ Zverev thought it was 5-1; the scoreboard said 6-2; the difference, per the players, is that one of those numbers was a thing that happened

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The Supreme Court blocked the Post Office's new mail-ballot rules on the ground that election officials "do not have sufficient time" to implement them. The rules, as written, would have put a unique barcode on every envelope. The Court did not object to the barcode. It objected to the timeline. Which is the more honest explanation for what just happened?

"The barcode was the problem" — because a barcode on an envelope is not a fraud-prevention measure, it is a loyalty program, and the Court, in the specific, recognized the difference 44%
"The timeline was the problem" — because the rules were fine and the schedule was not, and the Court said exactly that, and then went to lunch 33%
"The portal was the problem" — because the verification system was, per the one official who saw it, "untested" and "rushed," and the portal, per the portal, was the thing doing the rejecting 23%

Poll results reflect the views of 3,077 readers, a number we chose because it is, in the specific, the number of barcodes it would take to fill the Post Office's verification portal, and because a significant portion of the respondents submitted their answer as a single vertical line, then a horizontal one, then a vertical one, which we are treating, for the purposes of this poll, as a vote.

"I have held the ten-year at two, at three, at four. I have held it through a war and a holiday and a rumor that was, in the specific, a rumor. I have never held it at five. Five is not a rate. Five is a decision someone is about to make, and the decision is not, as the television suggests, mine. I hold the number. The number does the rest."

— A fixed-income desk trader in New York, who has priced the ten-year for the better part of a career and asked that his firm not be named, because the firm, at five percent, is, in the specific, the benchmark