🚨 It certainly appears that @USPS is targeting Democratic areas with near surgical precision

[riversedge]

I had not seen the map before.



Aug 14
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It certainly appears that @USPS
is targeting Democratic areas with near surgical precision for reductions of sorting capacity.



This is as deeply concerning as the the other delays they have announced.
https://washingtonpost.com/local/md-polit

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#SaveUSPS #USPSprotest



............DeJoy, in service changes last month, has drastically reduced overtime and banned extra trips to ensure on-time mail delivery. His wholesale reorganizations ousted several agency veterans in key operational roles. And the USPS is currently decommissioning 10 percent of its costly and bulky mail-sorting machines, which workers say could hinder processing of election mail, according to a grievance filed by the American Postal Workers Union and obtained by The Washington Post. Those 671 machines, scattered across the country but concentrated in high-population areas, have the capacity to sort 21.4 million pieces of paper mail per hour.........................................

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[Laelth]

1. k&r for visibility. n/t

-Laelth

[SouthernLiberal]

31. And there's a red circle right around where I live

I live in a little Democratic pocket in the middle of red South Carolina.... and there I am.... slowed down mail

[SheltieLover]

2. As predicted

Now that House is on this, what's the next repuke trick?

[Botany]

4. "Now that House is on this, what's the next repuke trick?"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017600347

[SheltieLover]

8. I meant beyond usps mess

I could see chumputin ordering US troops abroad to quell protesters.

[Towlie]

26. "Now that House is on this, what's the next repuke trick?"

You make it sound like they'll abandon a tactic and substitute something in its place just because "the House is on this."

They'll undoubtedly come up with a "next repuke trick", but that in no way implies that they'll stop doing what they're doing now.

[SheltieLover]

27. Of course not

Putin has ordered mass chaos, so repubes will continue to compound the issues with more new tricks.

[lark]

3. Every single blue area in FL is being targeted.

They really have a hard on for FL theft, every area shown has moved more Democratic and all the areas not circled are strong repug. Why aren't they removing them from there? Answer is the rest are all strong red areas and a lot of them are very rural. Guess they are nervous about Houston & Detroit/Pontiac area, but I'm surprised Dallas and Austin and Atlanta weren't included. Guess they think Kemp is good enough at suppressing/stealing Dem votes, they don't need further action there?

[yellowdogintexas]

9. Look at Texas - Houston, San Antonio, DFW, and Austin

Especially Houston

[LisaL]

18. Yep, democratic strongholds with large populations in purple states where it wouldn't take much

to give the election to Trump. A few thousands here, a few thousands there of voter supression might be enough.

[lark]

35. It is a stark stand out.

Houston is being very heavily targeted.

[Cetacea]

34. They started this back in '07, after the last attempt to kill the USPS

It would be interesting to see find out which areas had the most drop boxes removed. I'm in a blue area and have not had one since then.

[Jamastiene]

5. K&R

Of course, they are. Trump drummed up this fiasco after trash talking the USPS for months. The reality wasn't matching his claims, so now he is MAKING it match his claims, using his yes man, DeJoy.

[Kaleva]

6. Trump got just under 44% of the vote in Pontiac (Oakland County) Mi.

It also looks like like Grand Rapids, home of the DeVos family and part of Trump Country, also took a hit.

[DownriverDem]

7. Where I live (Metro Detroit)

mail was slow and missed a couple of months ago. Now we get it regularly. I abhor trump and the repubs.

[Evolve Dammit]

10. We will see if they show up, and if they do how combative they are.

[IronLionZion]

11. Same strategy as their response to the COVID pandemic

and should hopefully backfire badly for them.

And to think, just a few years ago people thought the GOP would be screwing only foreigners.

[Lars39]

12. Memphis and Nashville are blue.

A lot of mail is routed there from the suburbs and sticks.

[Moostache]

13. There is a solution to this without USPS too...

Ballot Drop Boxes at EVERY polling station until the close of the polls on election day.

"Fraud" is NOT an actual thing in our elections, and Trump should be called out on it CONSTANTLY between now and November 3rd.

He claims dead people are receiving ballots? How? Exactly how did he CONFIRM that a deceased individual was raising from the dead JUST LONG ENOUGH TO READ THE MAIL AND GET A BALLOT????

He claims dogs are receiving ballots? How? Are we to believe that Trump TALKS to dogs to receive this information? Has he put a 'dog whisperer' on federal payrolls to help with Postal Service by anticipating rouge dogs on foot routes? Maybe Eric DOES have a job discerning wisdom from dog shit?

He claims MILLIONS and MILLIONS of fraudulent votes and yet he said the SAME FUCKING THING IN 2017 and even sent that asshat Kobach on an ACTUAL WITCH HUNT; one that - unlike the Mueller probe - failed to, you know, actually FIND WITCHES!!!

Donald J. Trump is hopelessly full of shit.
ANYONE who pretends otherwise IS THE PROBLEM.

THE PROBLEM must be dealt with on November 3rd and the guilty must face the business end of justice starting January 21st, 2021; and not ending until ALL are identified, shamed, prosecuted to the fullest extent of hte law and IMPRISONED appropriately.

[LisaL]

17. All of this has to be approved by the secretary of state and state congress.

Seeing as how many swing states have republican majority in a state congress, and republican secretaries of state, don't really expect that to happen.

[Auggie]

21. Great idea, provided people are SMART enough to figure it out. n/t

[calimary]

25. The ONLY thing you ever need to remember, regarding this issue

or ANY other issues, is this simple fact:

trump is That Guy Who LIES All The Time.

That’s the only lens through which his words and deeds can be viewed.

That’s the only filter in operation here.

He LIES ALL THE TIME.

That’s literally ALL anyone needs to know about the donald.

He’s that guy who LIES ALL THE TIME!

[bronxiteforever]

14. Kick and recommend for visibility

[dalton99a]

15. Arrest Louis DeJoy.

[LisaL]

16. Absolutely.

Look at Columbus on that map. That's a democratic stronghold of OH, which is expected to be extremely close. You slow that down, and viola! Problem solved (for Trump). Also, there was photo circulating showing a mail sorting machine sitting behind a post office in Cleveland -another democratic stronghold in OH.

[dragonlady]

32. Same situation for Wisconsin

The Milwaukee area has a large circle on this map. There is also a small dot for Madison. Those are the Democratic strongholds in the state.

[tinrobot]

19. Take ballot to 'Republican' city, mail there?

There are ways around this.

[LisaL]

22. You have to get the ballot first, which still involves USPS.

If you are able to actually take your ballot somewhere (have transportation and so on), take it to a drop off box for ballots. Many states have those now. Look up rules of your states, some allow to take it to a board of elections or an election clerk.
The problem is, not everybody has access to transportation to do all these things.

[Auggie]

20. Premeditated -- this has been in the works for months, maybe years

[KY_EnviroGuy]

23. Same map with voting pattern overlay.....

Credit to:

Link to tweet

Text:

CCK @KlassCarol
Replying to @marceelias and @USPS

Surgical precision is exactly right.

11:49 PM · Aug 14, 2020

Evidently, Trump's people thought they could get away with these moves at USPS without it being noticed. Thank goodness people are watching their every move these days.

Republicans can never be trusted for anything. It has always been that way but much worse with Trump's criminal gang.


KY

[GopherGal]

29. Great info-graphics

It'd also be interesting to see the reduction in terms of fraction of average number of pieces sorted per hour.

[Squidly]

38. Is our country really that red?

Thats a sobering graphic. Made my stomach turn a little.

[BComplex]

24. If they're going to do Drop Boxes, they'd damn well better have someone guarding

the damn things! These will likely be the targets of white nationalists in every area.

So he wants everyone to vote by computer so that he can get russia the codes to hack them like they did in Florida in 2016?

We need to figure out what we're going to do. And we're already late.

[zentrum]

28. Not the USPS. DeJoy is doing...

..the targeting.

USPS IS begging us for help.

[liberalla]

30. K & R

[smirkymonkey]

33. Rotten Motherfuckers!

They couldn't make it any more obvious if they tried.

I HATE THEM!

[Blue Owl]

36. ATTN Katie Porter -- this is Exhibit A

n/t

[PCIntern]

37. Philly.

Motherfuckers.