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 U.S. Postal Service that it hasn’t fixed persistent deficiencies.
In an alarming letter, the officials said 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, a problem that could automatically send voters to inactive status through no fault of their own, potentially creating chaos when those voters show up to cast a ballot.
If you have the option, fill out the mail in ballot at home, but then bring it into an official ballot drop off location.
By design. Why Biden didn’t oust Louis Dejoy I will never understand.
hE dOeSn’T hAvE tHe PoWeR
Can you elaborate or just meme?
Can you use a search engine?
I can, I just prefer people that make dumb AF posts to back them up. That’s all.
After reading through that article, I want to highlight this particular paragraph…
“The U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors has sole authority to hire and fire the postmaster general, the highest position in the organization. Though pressure mounts from Democrats and watchdogs to remove DeJoy from his seat at the top of the agency, Biden lacks the power to do so.”
Now maybe in misinterpreting this, but I think it says Biden can’t remove him.
So I guess it is just meming without elaboration. Glad we could clear that up
He does now though: “Official act, fuck you.” (per Trump v. United States, No. 23-939)
And yet he has, and has had, the power to appoint governors to directly fix the problem.
So you’re saying he doesn’t have the power to remove DeJoy? Got it
Sorry about your reading comprehension
De-ratfucking everything that Dejoy did should have been a priority for this administration on day one.
Still absolutely baffled and kinda furious that Biden has been content to continue letting DeJoy shit all over the USPS and actively prevent it from delivering and returning ballots in a timely manner all over the fucking country. Like seriously, for fuck’s sake, DeJoy is a fox in the henhouse, and he’s been having chicken fuckin’ dinner for four fucking years. Fucking DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. CHRIST.
In Washington State (where most voting is done by mail) it doesn’t matter when officials receive your ballot, all that matters is that it’s postmarked by election day. This does mean that any race that’s even remotely close can take days to call (as ballots continue to arrive days after election day), but you never have to worry about how long the post office is going to take to get your ballot delivered.
In neighboring Oregon on the other hand (also primarily mail-in voting) they won’t count your ballot if it’s not received by election day, so every election they have to throw out stacks of otherwise legitimate ballots just because the voter either underestimated how long it would take for them to arrive, or because all they heard was “XX is election day” and didn’t know to consider mailing time.
I think Washington’s system is superior, and should be how it’s done everywhere. Washington also has same-day registration for the super-procrastinators! Literally no excuse to not vote here.
I hope that is fixed. I voted by mail before.
