The Trump administration announced the charges at a news conference in Washington, a week after the Supreme Court upheld a block on the president’s mail voting restrictions.
Within a minute of opening a news conference in Washington to announce charges against a Utah postal worker, officials in President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice on Tuesday pivoted to its fight with states — including Utah — over mail voting.
A federal grand jury indicted a Payson man last week who, while working for the U.S. Postal Service during the state’s June primary election, allegedly discarded hundreds of pieces of mail in a Utah County church parking lot dumpster. Mail ballots were among them.
The charges stem from an inquiry launched by the USPS inspector general’s office into nearly 300 ballots that never arrived in mailboxes of voters primarily living in Eagle Mountain.
When discussing the missing ballots with county commissioners ahead of election certification, Utah County Clerk Aaron Davidson said, “We don’t believe that [with] the disparity between the wins and losses … it would have affected any specific race.”
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