Wisconsin election officials have until Sept. 19 to distribute requested absentee ballots. That’s when the bad news begins.

North Carolina authorities planned to ship ballots on Sept. 6. That’s been postponed indefinitely, to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as an option.

Absent that wrinkle, North Carolinians would have started to vote four days before Sept. 10’s Kamala Harris-versus-Donald Trump debate. That would have been as sick, twisted, and un-American as a jury deliberating before hearing the prosecution and defense cases.

What the hell is the rush?

Tarheels notwithstanding, Wisconsinites do not need to select the next leader of the free world 47 days before Election Day. Virginia similarly will disgrace itself on Sept. 20. Michigan’s self-debasement follows, on Sept. 26.

These swingy states, and others soon thereafter, will make this momentous decision—and determine control of the Senate, House, governor’s mansions, and city halls—long before mind-changing news breaks. That could include policy proposals, riveting ads, economic data, gaffes, or scandals that could make mail-in voters want to recast their ballots.

Too late!

Almost always, once voters submit mail-in ballots for tabulation, that’s it—never mind their fervent pleas to change their choices.

The cancer of mail-in ballots metastasizes from there.

Thirty-three election administrators from 26 states wrote Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on Wednesday “to express our ongoing concerns about the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) performance as we approach the Nov. 5,........

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