On March 31st — the day before April Fools, which feels cosmically correct — Donald Trump sat down in the Oval Office and signed an executive order designed to make it substantially harder for millions of Americans to vote by mail. Standing behind him, grinning like a man who’d just been told he didn’t have to pay taxes anymore, was Commerce Secretary Howard Nutlick, who explained cheerfully that states wanting to use the U.S. Postal Service to deliver ballots would now need to get a special barcode from USPS and put it on every envelope. One ballot, one code. The Postal Service will be watching.