US Postal Service delays threaten to disrupt election voting, officials say
US Postal Service delays threaten to disrupt election voting, officials say
Local election offices reportedly received mailed ballots days after the deadline to be counted ‘in nearly every state’
Local election offices reportedly received mailed ballots days after the deadline to be counted ‘in nearly every state’
State and local election officials from across the country on Wednesday warned that problems with the nation’s mail delivery system threaten to disenfranchise voters in the upcoming presidential election, telling the head of the US Postal Service (USPS) that it hasn’t fixed persistent deficiencies.
The officials said in a letter that over the past year, including the just-concluded primary season, mailed ballots that were postmarked on time were received by local election offices days after the deadline to be counted.
They also noted that properly addressed election mail was being returned to them as undeliverable.
It's exactly what Republicans wanted by making Louis DeJoy the Postmaster General, right?
How.
The fuck.
Is that fucking guy still there?
It's complicated, and Congress is taking advantage of that to keep him there. The nine-member United States Postal Service Board of Governors has sole authority to fire, and hire, the Postmaster General. At the moment there are only 7 members, 3 Dems, 3 Reps, 1 Ind. 6 members are required for a quorum.
Biden has 2 pending nominations and a pending reappointment of an existing governor. There are still 2 governors remaining from Trump's administration at this point. The Senate confirmed 3 seats in July 2021 and 2 seats in May 2022, and nothing since. They seem to be doing the absolute bare minimum to intentionally delay any possible changes.
Note that these are not full time government positions like the Postmaster. They only meet once a month usually.
Biden didn't have the power to remove him and didn't want to appear to act like the orange man. Politics getting in the way of Democracy.
That's exactly what he was put there to do. Well, that and just generally disrupt the postal service enough to push people to their more expensive competitors. It's dramatic but I always joke that he's my nemesis. I'm just grateful that we have ballot drop boxes all over in CO where I live so that people don't have to depend on the mail.
Post Offices are directly mentioned in the constitution as a job of the federal gov. Its so crazy to me how much cover the US media gives republicans when they do their nonsense.
Doesn't seem to be a very good plan, USPS has been consistently delivering all my packages, sending and receiving, on time or even ahead of schedule.
And I send and receive a lot of packages. I also send and receive FedEx a lot, and they're also consistently on time, but USPS still beats them on "chance of early delivery"
I don't do a whole lot with UPS, I've maybe had 4 or 5 packages the past couple months with them and 3 of them were late. UPS sucks.
Anybody that the Republicans put in charge of any federal agency is there for the purpose of destroying that agency. I used to think defense was an exception but, given Republican's new found love for Russia, I don't think that can be assumed any longer.
Every time Republicans screw up some government service, the goal is to point to it later and go "see? Government doesn't work."
Everything in the US is so god damn partisan.
How can the fucking postal service be republican?
And... why is there no democrat stuff?
See this lake? It's republican, so you can swim here. But that one over there? It's where the democrats hide the dead babies they kill to get their blood.
Oh, and potatoes grown in this field are republicans, but stay away from the taters across the road!
Because the left typically aren't autocratic. They want our agencies and services to actually work efficiently and provide the most they can for the highest number of people, rather than turning everything into a goddamn team sport.
Because it's slightly tricky to replace the post master general: https://www.federaltimes.com/federal-oversight/2022/08/24/can-biden-fire-us-postmaster-general-louis-dejoy/
Isn’t this illegal? Shouldn’t the postmaster be arrested by USPIS?
Powerful people can just commit crimes in the US and it's fine.
I think the correct answer to almost any post beginning with "isn't this illegal" is "no."
What law do you imagine is being broken?
Who could could have possibly seen this coming!? /s
Biden kept this piece of shit from the Trump admin.
He did not, the president cannot remove him because of the board that controls the position. It requires congress to change, and congress is not majority blue, so we just have traitors still installed who are actively doing damage to the US.
Vote blue for congress this November. We need to get Dejoy out, he's a fucking traitor.
As ever, one party's general view is that the less votes successfully cast the better.
Would that be the same party that argues that the post office should recieve less funding?
It's impossible to say.
I bet if you hold DeJoy's position and pay to adequate delivery response, a miracle would happen. Perhaps even a fine/prosecution for election tampering as an added bonus