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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMajor USPS Changes Could Hamper Vote-By-Mail At The Worst Possible Time
(Talking Points Memo) Election officials who were already facing major challenges in making voting accessible operations during the pandemic were thrown a new curveball this week.
Mail service could be slowed down in coming months, as part of a campaign to overhaul the U.S. Postal Service launched by new agency leadership appointed by President Trump.
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In interviews with TPM, election officials, vote-by-mail experts, and mail vendors outlined ways the proposed changes negatively impact the vote-by-mail process, which is being adopted in record numbers across the country amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
They provided several scenarios in which the refusal to let USPS employees work overtime the main driver of the changes being described could lead to voters being disenfranchised.
Its really a concern. The Trump administration is looking at the Post Office as a business. Its not a business, its a critical public service, Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos told TPM.
Making The System Susceptible To Issues
Internal documents reported by the Washington Post describe a new culture being ushered where, in an effort to cut costs, overtime work would be vehemently discouraged. This means employees should leave mail behind if continuing to process those pieces would put them behind their schedule for deliveries.
One aspect of these changes that may be difficult for employees is that.- temporarily we may see mail left behind or mail on the workroom floor or docks (in P&DCs), which is not typical, one document said, which described the changes as being implemented immediately.
In practice, that means some mail could take an extra day or even longer to be delivered.
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2naSalit
(86,779 posts)idziak4ever1234
(1,257 posts)Hekate
(90,793 posts)Wouldnt it?
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)I'm not sure that I want to go that route knowing what these sleazebags might try to do.
onetexan
(13,058 posts)I wana see this idiot kicked out of office collectively by sensible Americans.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)I want to see the Trumplers standing outside holding their signs mere hours before the roof caves in on them.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)In TN, if you request mail in ballot, you may not hand deliver anywhere and if you later opt to vote in person, ballot is provisional (not likely to be counted!).
bluestarone
(17,030 posts)HAND DELIVER IT TO the court house!! I will NOT take a chance on the mail delivery!
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)In TN, if you request mail ballot, you may not hand deliver ANYWHERE! 🤬
bluestarone
(17,030 posts)Do it quite often!
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)A repuke shithole where you are.
bluestarone
(17,030 posts)NOT like the the Southern REPUKES states thank GOD! but (i sure wish we were DEMOCRATIC!)
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Well, a shithole. 🤣
At least Memphis region.
Glad you have better voting laws!
bluestarone
(17,030 posts)In the same boat!! We have to KICK HIS ASS in NOV> along with all the RETHUGS in the senate!
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)uponit7771
(90,364 posts)... one took it to the USSC they USSC could take forever deciding on the case.
This is horrible
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)soryang
(3,299 posts)i've been using the priority mail for a few months now because the regular mail service has become unreliable. the problem is i have to go inside a small post office in the neighborhood, and people don't comply very well with the distancing and mask requirements.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)With recipient signature confirmation upon delivery. About $10.
Takket
(21,625 posts)bluestarone
(17,030 posts)I do worry about LOST BALLOTS though!
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)"Lost" ballots a big concern!
Takket
(21,625 posts)i live in michigan and sent in my primary ballot. the township has already marked it as "received" so i know they got it.
see if your state does the same........
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)But, if "lost," then likely provisional required. 🤬
I will do early voting next week for Aug primary. Never crowded.
CousinIT
(9,257 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)to a drop box.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)No such thing in TN. Mail in ballot must be mailed in. 🤬
not_the_one
(2,227 posts)Appoint Louis DeJoy as his new USPS postmaster general "fixer", just like BarBar is his DOJ fixer. You don't think they can do it? How many times have thought THAT, only to get our face rubbed into him DOING it?
Putin has the electronic votes covered, and DeJoy has the mail-in votes covered.
We HAVE to be able to know what is happening on election day.
I say we make it a party, EVERYONE wear BLUE, PHOTO/VIDEO EVERYTHING, and if the results don't pass the smell test, hit the streets Wednesday, surrounding the White House. Initiate a national strike to bring this country to a halt.
Until then make sure the turd KNOWS he is going down. He can't handle defeat.
He is fulfilling Putin's final orders. Chaos and destruction.
If he KNOWS we won't let him steal it, he'll run, tail tucked between his legs. 'Cause the military is NOT going to support him.
Cha
(297,655 posts)doing here in Hawaii.