Sourcehttps://www.reuters.com
GOLDEN, Colorado, Nov 2 (Reuters) – From longer hours and extra staffing to special lines in its branches, the US Postal Service is taking an array of special actions to make sure mail-in ballots for the midterm elections are counted on Tuesday.
This year more than ever, the pressure is on the Postal Service to deliver. President Donald Trump ordered the agency to write rules that would bar it from delivering ballots if the states did not agree to turn over lists of eligible voters and some voters have expressed concern about voting by mail. The Supreme Court blocked Trump and USPS from enforcing those rules in September.
Trump’s fellow Republicans are locked in a tight battle to retain control of Congress in the midterms. Restricting mail-in ballots would stand to benefit Republicans given that Democratic voters disproportionately use mail-in ballots, according to various surveys.
Sourcehttps://www.reuters.com
A last-minute ballot-delivery sprint is not a success story; it’s an indictment of a Postal Service that needs emergency measures to do the job it was supposed to plan for all along. Amber McReynolds has been a worthless Board chair, presiding over an oversight body that has spent years doing little more than mindlessly nodding along while DeJoy—and now Steiner—make a mess. These governors aren’t overseeing anything; they’re a rubber stamp for failure. What an absolute disgrace.