USPS ordered to have postal inspectors sweep some facilities by 3 p.m. ET for election mail
Source: CNN
Judge Emmet Sullivan of the US District Court of the District of Columbia ordered the United States Postal Service to sweep all processing facilities by 3 p.m. ET in a number of states, including some critical battleground state.
The order mandates that USPS postal inspectors "or their designees" must start sweeping the processing facilities by 3:00 p.m. ET.
According to the order, this is,
"to ensure that no ballots have been held up and that any identified ballots are immediately sent out for delivery."
The sweeps must be conducted in the following USPS districts:Central Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Detroit
Colorado/Wyoming
Atlanta
Houston
Alabama
Northern New England (New Hampshire and Maine)
Greater South Carolina
South Florida
Lakeland (Wisconsin)
Arizona
Seven battleground states are conducting sweeps and do not allow ballots to arrive after Election Day. They include: Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Florida, New Hampshire, Arizona, and Maine.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/webview/politics/live-news/election-results-and-news-11-03-20/h_189981a77d910ce146136f8544790bd3
Order has issued.
Link to tweet
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Sherrilyn Ifill
@Sifill_LDF
BREAKING: We haven't forgotten you, mail-in voters. New frm Judge Sullivan in our #USPS case: mail processing facilities in identified jurisds must conduct sweeps to "ensure that no ballots have been held up & that any identified ballots are immediately sent out for delivery."
Sam Spital
@SamSpital
Hot off the press in our USPS case. The court just ordered postal inspectors or their designees to sweep facilities in AL, PA, MI, FL, SC among other places to ensure no ballot is left behind. @NAACP_LDF @Public_Citizen @NAACP
As an additional note, Philly has been streaming their mail-in ballot canvassing operation in the PA Convention Center downtown.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,125 posts)come of this
When you vote for traitor you vote for a dictatorship, they know this is happening and they like it, if they steal this we are done, period, over and out.
And all because of WHINERS and BASHERS of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)my son is a letter carrier and you can't believe how much stress this has put on him and all the other Postal employees
BComplex
(8,072 posts)save it from republicans.
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)calimary
(81,523 posts)Louie DeJAIL.
needs to go to jail!!!!
diva77
(7,663 posts)FakeNoose
(32,791 posts)It never hurts to have a little extra leverage.
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)dchill
(38,556 posts)onetexan
(13,067 posts)rig the election or to destroy the Post Office. He is just the puppet carrying out the orders.
ancianita
(36,148 posts)If USPS gets an overhaul, I'd like to see live cameras in every post office. It's worth the cost.
BumRushDaShow
(129,637 posts)Philly and the surrounding/rim counties in SE PA are going to count the mail-ins 24/7 until they are done.
ancianita
(36,148 posts)It only takes one Republican in any post office.
BumRushDaShow
(129,637 posts)not the USPS "sweep". Hopefully the USPS will FIND and deliver ANY dangling ballots that may have been stuck in their facilities!
ancianita
(36,148 posts)Hopefully Philiadelphia doesn't have irregularities and all the processing goes smoothly.
Bauer's law army is everywhere, I hope.
BumRushDaShow
(129,637 posts)I don't have the TV on but am streaming the feed from the city's election website.
ancianita
(36,148 posts)Very cool they have that.
BumRushDaShow
(129,637 posts)where you can see a barrier behind where the media are -
ancianita
(36,148 posts)calimary
(81,523 posts)Which we can engineer if we rebalance the high court after January - by expanding it.
Hopefully he's not too old so he could settle in there, for awhile.
CloudWatcher
(1,851 posts)From the Washington Post:
USPS disregards court order to conduct sweeps in 12 postal districts after more than 300,000 ballots cant be traced
Sure must be nice to be able to just ignore court orders!
BumRushDaShow
(129,637 posts)post haste.