Purposeful Disenfranchisement
The letters from the USPS went out to 46 states according to the Washington Post.
The “narrow”warning applies when only a “limited number” of voters are disenfranchised.
Ballot Fraud
President Donald Trump doubled down on his opposition to giving the United States Postal Service $25 billion in funding in order to block expanded mail-in voting for the election because he believes Ballot Fraud will benefit the Democrats.
Greatest Rigged Election in History
Trump claims, with no evidence, that mail-in voting will lead to substantial fraud including the “greatest Rigged Election in history.”
Trumpian Illogical Deals
President Trump said he will approve billions of dollars in funding for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) as part of a coronavirus relief package if Democrats make concessions on certain White House priorities.
Democrats seek $25 billion in USPS funding. That’s the amount Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said was recommended by the agency’s board of governors.
“Sure, if they gave us what we want. And it’s not what I want, it’s what the American people want,” Trump said during a news conference, as reported by The Hill.
Question of the Day
If mail-in voting did lead to fraud, then why should Trump approve a deal that would encourage the greatest amount ever?
This same kind of Trumpian deal “logic” happened repeatedly with China. Recall that Trump called Huawai a huge security threat but was willing to go along as long as China did other things Trump wanted.
If something is a genuine security threat, you do not bargain it away.
There is no rhyme, reason, or logic to nearly any Trump proposal. It’s all how he feels at the moment which is why we have these kinds of contradictions repeatedly.
Twitter Plans Clampdown On Mail-In Voting Misinformation
Politico reports Twitter Plans Clampdown On Mail-In Voting Misinformation Amid Friction With Trump
Senators Favoring More USPS Support
- Tom Carper (D-Del.)
- Chris Coons (D-Del.)
- Susan Collins (R-Maine)
- Steve Daines (R-Mont.)
- Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)
- Doug Jones (D-Ala.)
- Lisa Murkowski
(R-Alaska) - Pat Roberts (R-Kan.)
- Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska)
- Jon Tester (D-Mont.)
Those are stated views. It is a certainty that all Democrats and at least 5 Republicans favor more money for the USPS.
Purposeful Tampering
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1294363606793039873
Key Points
- The USPS postmaster, Trump mega-donor Louis DeJoy, removed 671 high-speed sorting machines.
- Each machine can sort 35,000 pieces of mail per hour.
- Instead of being used, the machines will just sit somewhere, assuming the idiot does not scrap them.
- This ensures the USPS can not handle the volume of mail-in votes.
FiveThirtyEight Guide
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Texas Mail-In Requirements
Trump Requests Mail-In Ballot
Even Fox Notes the Hypocrisy
Elimination of high-speed sorting machines if done to disrupt an election is criminal. Period.
Mish
This will be an epic self-own by the Trumpublicans. Elderly people most at risk for coronavirus complications will be voting by mail most heavily.
My two conservative Republican parents live in a swing state that went narrowly for Trump last time. If they cannot vote by mail, they won’t vote. The same is true of their social circle — most of whom are Trump voters.
The moaning and gnashing of teeth that will occur in Republican-land when all those Trump ballots from elderly voters and overseas military get delayed and invalidated, costing the Republicans a large number of close races, will be epic.
Looking forward to the 2021 Nuremberg Trials. Every member of the Trump Administration should hang.
Only a totalitarian ass . would make such a statement … this is how democratic discourse dies
Killing evil dictators is the best way to guarantee that they use the military and secret police to stay in power to their dying breath. There are always countries that promise such evil rulers a refuge, not b/c they don’t want justice, but because it is the best chance for some humanitarian relief to their subjects.
So you oppose the Nuremberg trials? You think Goering and Hess et. al.should have walked? Good to know where your sympathies lie Webej. Duly noted.
I really do not understand the mail in ballots craze. We all know that the masks are the lightsaber against the virus. Why can’t we all just wear our masks to the voting booths. I plan to and I will not be voting on either boomer, incompetent, sex offender and racist candidate. #JoJorgenson2020
Because I don’t want to stand in line for hours to put a piece of paper in a box? Some of us have things to do.
Yes, please don’t vote if it’s too inconvenient. People in North Korea have so much to do, the government relieves them of this tedious task. Perhaps we also will be so lucky some day.
We should be able to vote on our phones… but a bunch of corrupt losers would get voted out if that were the case.
““The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again,” – donald trump
The plan is to have a bunch of maskless retards standing in line to scare everyone off, maybe with a few tactical fatboys with rifles milling about.
Some of us live in states where morons like to punch people who politely ask them to wear a mask. I see numerous people walk into businesses without masks even though the businesses have clearly posted signs. I can only imagine how that will play out on election day.
I know nothing about the details of what changes the Post Office is making. I do know that in a world of email and electronic communication, they are an anachronism. First, as a Federal Agency, saddled with Federal rules, they are inefficient, and always have been. Second, they have seen volume declining at an incredible rate. Do they have excess capacity? Almost certainly. Do they have a need to make dramatic changes? Without a doubt. Were the changes they made the right ones? Who the hell knows. Were they made deliberately to muck with the election? I seriously doubt it.
The world has become so politicized that whatever anyone does, everyone wants to ascribe political motivations for it, but that doesn’t mean politics were the real reason. The Post Office has been shrinking, and reducing capacity for years. For example, about 5 years ago, they eliminated mail sorting in my city entirely, which means all local mail takes 2 days minimum, instead of one. Did they do that to muck with the 2020 election? Obviously not, since it was five years ago, but it will.
They have also closed branches, and have been talking about eliminating Saturday delivery. Is that related to the election? No, obviously not. Why then, should we think that removing excess high speed sorting machines was political? When was the decision made to eliminate them? That isn’t just the sort of thing that you say, “oh, turn those machines off tomorrow”. Most likely the decision was made a year or two ago. Could they delay it? Perhaps, and hopefully so, but if the buildings have been sold, then no, but if the buildings have been sold, that also makes it clear that the decision was made long ago.
The Post Office has lost money for years. It is in a business that is shrinking rapidly and dramatically, and the more they raise the stamp price, the faster it shrinks. Major reform IS needed, and the fact that they are facing a huge one day event, the election, does not change that. Are the reforms being made the right reforms? I have no idea, but they are consistent with other changes made in the last decade, changes leading to a smaller post office, with less capacity, slower delivery, less offices, and less employees. Those changes DO need to be made. Not long ago they used to have a regular one day surge of mail on April 15th, but these days most people file electronically, so that surge, and the need for that surge capacity is gone.
If it can be shown that they Postmaster General suddenly made changes for the specific purpose of screwing up the election, that’s a crime. If these are changes that were decided on long ago, as I suspect, it is merely unfortunate. They should see if they can delay some of the changes until after election, but if buildings have been sold, that may not be possible.
The answer to this is simpler than it seems. Let’s start with the notion that the Post Office is shrinking, and inefficient, and ill-prepared for a one day surge. So, what is the answer? First the election commissions need to understand that, and accommodate it. They can set up special ballot dropoffs, where people can deposit their “mail-in” ballots, without it needing to go through the post office. Second, they can advertise that people should mail their ballots early, and not wait for the last minute. Both will eliminate that one-day surge through the Post office.
For example, put a locked ballot dropbox in every pharmacy. The election commission can pick up the ballots on a weekly basis, and then, as the election approaches, a daily basis. That actually would take the election less labor than supervising all the voting locations does now. The Post Office can be used by people for whom the drop boxes won’t work, but those people should try to vote as early as possible.
Note, by the way, that whether or not the post office is trying to influence the election, by causing people to vote significantly earlier in the election cycle, they inadvertently will influence it…in favor of Biden. With Trump far behind, the earlier people vote, the less time he has to make a comeback.
Who would of thought that America would give up its right to vote for a greasy con man?
The US Post Office is a relic, inefficient, incestuous, and incompetent. The Internet (email, online banking etc), Fed Ex, UPS, credit cards, environmental issues (reducing junk mail) have essentially eliminated any role for USPS beyond affirmative-action employer. If USPS continues to exist, it requires vast strategic/structural change. Leadership must come from outside because of decades of systemic incest, inefficiency, and incompetence. Yes, I’m repeating myself. Innovation simply does exist in such an environment.
The mail problems we are witnessing were caused by Trump trying to make the kind of changes essential for USPS survival. The slowdown is deliberate internal resistance (aka sabotage). This is a go-slow campaign, orchestrated by American Postal Workers Union and others. You do not fix this problem by throwing money at it. To do so, you accept and encourage the status quo–being held hostage.
Here’s a solution. Sell USPS to Amazon.
Without a Constitutional Amendment, the US can not sell the Post Office. They are required to deliver the mail.
Any reason why the assets can’t be sold and one person remains in USPS?
Should read: “Any reason why the assets can’t be sold and one person remains in (insert nearly every Federal agency here)?”
Thank God someone has commonsense. My point exactly. Stop with the waste, balance the budget.
Here’s my most recent USPS horror story. On July 17, I mailed an urgent 2-page document to Australia using Guaranteed Delivery. It cost $69. Delivery guaranteed by 30th July (not the three-days advertised) because of Covid-19.
Within two days it was at Miami International and ‘in transit to destination.’ A week later, it was in Ft. Lauderdale and ‘in transit to destination.’ On August 3, it was in Atlanta and ‘in transit to destination.’ According to USPS tracking, it isSTILL IN ATLANTA (as best I can tell), with an expected delivery date by July 30th.
The kicker, for the guarantee to be claimed, the mail must be delivered. No delivery, no claim. Yup, let’s give ’em another few billion!
Everyone has horror stories about the post office. How about this one. A couple years ago I went to the main post office to buy two rolls of stamps. It took over a half an hour. There was a guy running around all over the place, trying to find stamps. Finally he sold me one roll out of a bag, and one out of a drawer. He had to run my credit card twice, once for each roll, since they came from separate places. For one I had to sign the receipt on the desktop credit card machine, and for the other I had to sign on a phone. They couldn’t give me a receipt for the one on the phone because someone had gone to lunch, and taken the key to the printer. I was just glad to finally be out of there, and left with no receipt.
If the Post Office can’t even sell stamps, how can you expect them to actually deliver mail?
Please, NOT Amazon. Here’s a horror story.
I have been buying form Amazon since 2002. Over the years I have returned various products for various reasons including they didn’t fit correctly, didn’t work correctly, weren’t as advertised, etc.
In the last year, I had occasion to discover that at least two products I had brought stopped working more than 30 days past the standard Amazon guarantee but under one year. Coincidently, each of these products advertised in their listing a “a one year warranty”. I make sure to save the page when I place the order, especially when it advertises a warranty.
BUT, what do you do if the product breaks in the warranty period? Since most Amazon sellers are from Asia, there is no way to contact them about the broken product and warranty. The seller has often gone out of business or changed their business name or got booted off of Amazon.
This is what happened to me. Which required me to get on the telephone or chat to argue with Amazon reps that they had to be responsible for any warranty promises if the seller couldn’t be contacted. I did get a refund in each case but it was clear that they do not know what to do with this type of situation.
OK, keep that in mind and let’s move onto the latest disagreement.
I brought a pair of wireless earbuds, as I wanted to try a pair, especially when working out in the gym or hiking/jogging. Long story short, they didn’t stay in my ears and the sound was not very good. So I initiated a return.
The return was dropped off at the UPS Store on 6/20 and received by Amazon on 6/25. Meanwhile, it took me until late July to realize that I had not yet received my refund (~$53).
So I initiated contact with Amazon through chat, gave them the tracking number, etc. and got a refund. A couple of days later, the refund was pulled! Huh?
Amazon was now claiming that they DID NOT RECEIVE the earbuds in the package I sent, effectively accusing me of being a thief! This was the email I received:
Hello,
We are writing to let you know that we received no item instead of the original item, 1 x Wireless Earbuds Active Noise Cancelling | Boltune Enhanced Deep Bass Bluetooth Earbuds | Built-in 4 Mics |Touch Control |USB-C Quick Charge | IPX8 , in your return of order #111-7704369-6001012.
We are discarding the package that you sent. We cannot issue a refund for this order until we receive the correct item. Please return it to us if you want to receive the refund.
We expect and understand the occasional problem with a return. However, there have been repeated problems with returns on your account. We want to bring this to your attention because continued failure to follow our policies may result in you no longer being able to buy on Amazon.com.
You can review our return policies in the Returns, Refunds and Title section of the Conditions of Use, available at the link below:
http://www.amazon.com/conditionsofuse
To appeal this decision, please reply to this email to reach an account specialist.
Sincerely,
Account Specialist
Amazon.com
As you can see, this action and accusation was from some nameless “Account Specialist” who isn’t a native English speaker or writer but was comfortable issuing threats.
I responded and went back and forth 4 times with nameless “Account Specialists” four times, telling them I put the damn product in the box and if there was any thievery, it was inside Amazon. I kept getting the same nameless form letter in reply.
So finally, I escalated the accusation to the executive complaints office of Amazon (jeff@amazon.com). This normally gets a phone call in return. But this time, all I got was restoration of the refund and a close approximate of the same form letter, this time signed by a worker in the executive complaints office. No apology at all.
IMO, I am not sure that they didn’t receive the returned product but engineered this fiasco to try to teach me a lesson that Amazon DOESN”T like anyone returning too many products.
I could go on for many more paragraphs of detail.
Amazon SUCKS AS A COMPANY to so brazenly accuse a nearly 20 year customer of stealing their ultimately crummy product and I will not recommend them to anyone going forward, nor buy from them unless I can’t readily find the product I want somewhere else.
Trump can’t win an election fairly and this proves his guilt in the Mueller investigation. Who will be the citizens that take back our republic from the thief in chief ?
Signed,
A 2016 Trump voter
Once upon a time, Mish’s readers were insightful critical thinkers. Sadly, that has now gone.
“He doesn’t like Dear Leader! He lacks intellect!”
If I were an English teacher, that sentence would be a great example of the concept of non sequitur.
Don’t worry about partisanship, I am not a party to your ‘elections’.
Went over to my small town (in SF Bay Area) post office Friday to check my POBox. Something like 10 people sweating in line in the outside lobby (no AC in this PO), one old woman working at one station, 4 stations empty. Not uncommon at all.
Trump’s plan might be to delay the final count as long as possible with the help of his lawyers. Maybe into January, which misses the EC vote in early Dec. What happens then? Can he be deposed legally if no one has been declared the final winner by the EC?
Damn, that must be greusome in that heat wave you have been enjoying.
By the way, your question about what if…. If there is no vote at all the 20th Amendment says “the terms of the president and vice president shall end at noon” on January 20. Trump would be out.
The same amendment mentions this scenario where no president has been selected before that noon deadline on the 20th. “Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a president elect nor a vice president elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as president, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a president or vice president shall have qualified.”
Of course the GOP being the GOP will not allow anyone to be named unless they have figured out a way to resurrect Hitler and make him a republican president. So, the job would fall to the speaker of the house. One of the problems with that is that all house members also would have stood for reelection and the parties in the house have to go through the selection process of the speakerships for majority and minority. So we do not know as of this minute who that would be, likely Nancy Pelosi would win the speakership again and she would become president till a qualified president is chosen.
Alan Doucheowitz has a treatment of the problem at The Hill, you can read that for a laugh but in my opinion is just pathetic and since we know he has his head up Trump’s ass no wonder he can’t think straight anymore. His ideas may be cogent in the event that there is NO ELECTION at all, but there will be an election, just not a free or fair election if Trump gets his way.
In his scenario since there is no election at all there also is no US House of Reps. They all stand for election every two years so all their terms will have ended and no ne election to name new reps. Because of that, all senators that were up for reelection would also have their terms end. But that still leaves 66 senators who’s terms have not ended, and the President Pro Tempore becomes commander in chief. Because the democrats would be in the majority that would be the longest serving democratic senator, by tradition, but they could pick anyone they want to. Probably Chuck Schumer or Elizabeth Warren.
But just as Doucheowitz is full of shit so is his premise.
There will be an election, just possibly not one in which the electoral college can determine a valid winner from. That does not mean that local races have elections with no valid winners, at least in part because any contested wins at the district level would be settled by state courts. So there WOULD be a US House of Reps sworn in, the only way that Doucheowits’ scenario can happen is if there is no vote at all.
That being the case the Speaker would become president at noon on the 20th next January. Of course we know speakership ends with the term of the speaker and a new speaker would then be chosen when the house reconvenes, and they will know at that point the speaker will become president till a qualified president can fill the office. That would mean an unholy interparty war, you thought Nancy Pelosi had to wrangle that minor uprising last tiem? In this case the party could deadlock and tear itself apart trying to get their presidential hopeful into the office. Very unlikely but at least in theory we could have President AOC till a new president can be named or elected. Now there is a nightmare, but it would most likely be Nancy because she was the one that has lead the party to the point where Trump is no longer president and that comes with a lot of political capital. Even if she is not the one, she can pretty much name the one.
Remember the constitution gives the power to name the time and date and methods of an election. If the 2020 election does not produce a valid electoral college winner then the congress can call for a new election. Or they can just leave it till the next scheduled election. I doubt they would do that at least voluntarily, but the GOP being the GOP would do ANYTHING at all to screw things up for the democrats even unto destroying the union. So no matter what the house does the senate would likely try to stop them. That is provided the GOP still has the majority. Because a third of senators are up for reelection and their terms also end, and new senators also picked, either by voters in their states, or appointed by governors in the event that an election does not provide a winner in a given race, or the courts in a state rule in the favor of one or the other contested vote in those states, etc. the Senate will probably be in Democrats hands. They could name say the first Tuesday in March, or another date, or a month after the declared end of the pandemic.
I do not expect that voters will allow Trump to void or so entangle our November election that a candidate can’t be chosen. And he does not have the authority to simply delay or cancel the vote, not even with an emergency declaration, only congress can name time and dates for an election.
Wanna bet there were four other employees sitting in the backroom? See, my Post Office is the same way. Lots of employee cars in the parking lot, though. Critical thinking says this is employee sabotage. You fix it by sending in postal inspectors and firing the employees who are being paid and NOT working.
There will be an election. People will go to the polls wearing face masks, the same as they go shopping at Walmart.
Yes, as I said on Twitter, Trump could force us to French kiss an infected poll worker in order to be handed a ballot at the polls and I would still go vote against him. I may die as a result but it would be worth it to vote his sorry orange fat Putin loving traitor ass out of office and straight into a Grand Jury indictment for some of his many MANY high crimes.
I am NOT saying that won’t be an election, just wondering what could happen if the votes don’t get counted in time or the court cases challenging the various contests haven’t concluded.
Again, vote how you wish; however, making unfounded allegations does not prove your case. Facts do!
No idea what you said on Twitter. I have better things to do than waste my time.
Big deal.I waste my time reading you.
Except if those facts are harmful to Dear Leader. Then they’re Fake News and we need to embrace “alternative facts,” amirite?
$25 billion. That’s about $200 a ballot.
Along with “the post office removed XXX. For shame!”, this whole thing is lost in the entertainment cloud.
The $25 billion baloney speaks for itself.
The “removal” baloney: When you read stuff in the media, one useful technique to apply is to flip the story. Consider this: “The post office has not cut back equipment and facilities in the face of falling mail volumes. For shame!”
Trump’s “they will steal the election through mail fraud” seems just as silly unless it’s a convoluted way to get voting officials on their toes.
Both sides of this thing are convinced of the evilness of the other. So they both think the other guy will steal the election.
What bothers me is they may both be projecting. Accurately.
To a crowd who, after making a decision, sells it with any available pitch, lie or not, the extra step of helping the electorate come to a reasoned conclusion may not seem too bad.
That is a reflection of how damaged the USPS is after the GOP passed a law in 2006 requiring them to put $110 billion into their retirement and healthcare funds. The goal was to take a postal service that was PROFITABLE on an operational basis and starve it, or as President Obama put it so eloquently yesterday kneecap it. These pension funds were to be fully funded out 75 years for employees retirements who were not even born yet, to this day. They went from profit and no government assistance, to a huge loss that meant they could hardly keep the machines and delivery vehicle running no less have any leftover for CapEx.
They did this because they wanted a USPS so run down and dysfunctional that America would beg them to privatize it. The cherished goal of all republicans, even when it is a constitutional requirement.
You make it sound like the $25 billion is just to pay for the USPS to handle ballots one time in 2020. But that is what it will take to get the postal service back to a generally healthy operational state where it can once again be self sustaining and not a drag on the treasury.
By the way, gross;y overfunding those pensions was about more than just creating a dilapadated mess out of a working post office. When they finally demanded privatization and broke it up and sold off the pieces who do you think would get those pension funds? It would be the Amazon or DHS or UPS or bidders for the pieces. In other words a huge gift to Wall Street.
Got love those parasite GOP. The only flaw in their plan was they did not plan on becoming a minority or the election of Obama. But eventually they did regain power till they lost the house. They need both the legislative and executive branch signing off on the fire sale of the USPS. And as long as dems have the house they can’t pull it off anymore.
Pretty sure the D’s controlled things for a couple years. Why not fix it? Oh that’s right they were busy driving my healthcare cost up 2000%.
By the time the D’s were in control the damage was done. And as far as your healthcare costs go the ACA was the best they could do with the GOP trying to block every single idea floated for fixing the 60 million people WITHOUT ANY CARE! I sympathize with people like you that saw huge increases in your premiums and out of pocket costs, but I still regard it as better than you getting great cheap care while so many tens of millions had none at all.
Now instead of bitching about it why don’t we change it so that healthcare is a RIGHT for all at half the cost and it could easily be done if the GOP just stops using healthcare and Rx drugs as a cash cow for Wall Street.
I call bullshit. There’s no way your healthcare costs increased by a factor of 20. You literally pulled that percentage out of your big jiggly derrière.
Insurance for my family was $349 in 2009. Deductible was $750 a year.
Now I pay $2170 a month. My deductible is $14,900 a year.
So it jumped from a max of $5k a year to $41k.
So as I burn a Porsche every two years I tend to exaggerate a bit. It makes be feel so much better it was the Republicans fault the democrats passed a bill and cost me so much money. Damn republicans.
You’re not spending $41K a year.
Stop lying. It gets tedious to read all these lies.
No I spend 2170 a month. If we use it we have meet the deductible.
2 kids 2 middle aged adults. No subsidy. Non smoker. Knock yourself out. Have a feeling you like your reality better and won’t. Most people enjoy their ignorance.
Great post – it is unbelievable that this is happening in the US. Many of the less democratic countries around the world are smiling…..
The Republican party’s tactics are nauseating and illegal.
Nauseating are comments like this. You should back up your ‘illegal’ claims with facts–what is the law, what is the illegal act. Otherwise, your comment is your personal and biased opinion, nothing else.
You really enjoy displaying your stupidity… sad.
Trying to throw voters off the rolls is illegal. This has happen in about 20 states and been reversed by courts. Q.E.D. F.U.
If you get a mail in ballot you can take it to the ballot box in most states on election day.
August 4 Michigan Primary. While the large majority of ballots were approved and counted, the state says approximately 10,600 ballots were rejected. More than 8,600 (over 80 percent) were due to signature verification issues or late arrival.
Last 1 1/2 months the mail has only been delivered 2 to 4 times per week.
Postal Service chief, under fire, admits ‘unintended consequences’ of his policy overhaul
My response on Twitter was: UNINTENDED! As my Irish father used to say, don’t piss on my leg and tell me it is raining. It was intended, it is a crime.
And it is a crime, this joker is not competent to be Postmaster General. He does not even know what every single mailman does, it is a federal crime to tamper with, impede, or delay the mail. He better do what that toilet guy did and resign pronto, then come clean about who ordered him to do what. What’s his name, the bald acting attorney general, Whit something. Whitaker, that’s it. Just pull up statkes and leave over a long weekend.
I totally agree. Let’s leave the USPS as incompetent and inefficient. Good leadership at the USPS would have FORESEEN the impact of competition and innovation. Bad leadership got the USPS to where it is today, a joke.
That was my point, it was not UNFORESEEN at all, it was a planned disruption of the mail that started about 2 months ago. This total dufus DeJoy is a MAJOR Trump GOP donor and that is how he got the job. They needed someone in the job to do their crimes for them NO QUESTIONS ASK! And this was their guy. He has no qualifications or understanding of the Postmater General job other than being a really wealthy republican. The last postmaster general was Megan Brennan, who started with the USPS as a letter carrier and knew the service and rules. An Obama appointee. Here is how the job is filled: The postmaster general is now appointed by nine “governors”, appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate. The governors, along with the postmaster general and the deputy postmaster general, constitute the full Postal Service Board of Governors.
You see? The GOP in the senate gets to approve not only the candidate for the job but the board of governors with presidential appointments. So Trump fired the Obama board and postmaster general and replaced them with his own which Moscow Mitch rubber stamped.
So COINCIDENCE? That on June 20 this asshat rich guy becomes Postmater General? That was almost to the DAY when my regular mail delivery woman who ALWAYS came about 2:30 every day like clockwork suddenly disappeared and was replaced by a series of other contract workers not in uniform, meaning they are not regular employees or union members. I worked at the USPS for 89 days in 1988, on my 90th day I was supposed to show up in uniform and join the union, I elected to just not go in that day and phoned them to say I quit. It was a horrible place to work. They had to hire me because I scored the highest out of the 6,500 or so that took the test, in the post office they only interview two more candidates than the number of position they are going to fill, meaning if they want to hire one person they can only interview three. If they are hiring 20 they only can only interview 22.
The guy that ran the annex where I was assigned was such an asshole I am still shocked that nobody shot that place up, remember the phrase GOING POSTAL? It was very popular in postal facilities back then. That was why it was going POSTAL and not going HIGH SCHOOL or something else.
It was clear from day one I was being sabotaged into quitting and rather than fight it I just said enough, I don’t really want to be a mailman anyway. But some of the bullshit they pulled to get me to quit you would say how on earth did you put up with it for almost three months? Especially back when my domestic arrangements were in the top 1% at that time.
The evidence of serious problems with unrestricted mail in voting is everywhere—-you have serious TDS—-please take the red pill
Removing sorting machines, blocking overtime and then saying we have insufficient resources sounds like a Putin move. People depend on the post office for medicine. This will backfire
Republicans want mail in voting for senate elections. Nothing makes sense. Trump even now says mail in voting for Florida is Ok. Why? Who knows
Agree with Sechel on this one. It will backfire.
As to Florida, I have figured it out – It will all make sense tomorrow.
Have the US Postal Service eliminate junk mail for a week. Problem solved.
Agree.. they should be processing nothing but ballots until the last one is counted. We can wait for the correct outcome.
Because in Florida it does not matter what a voter marks on a ballot, the Florida Department of State Division of Elections will just declare a winner they like as they did in 2000. Counting votes there is irrelevent and I am surprised anyone even bothers to open the envelopes.