LAS VEGAS — Voters in swing states such as Wisconsin and Georgia can trust their mail ballots will arrive at election offices on time, America’s top postal official insisted Thursday — but pols on both sides of the aisle weren’t buying it as they blasted him for service declines across the country.
Testifying before the House Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee, US Postal Service CEO and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said his 650,000-person workforce is on guard to make sure ballots move and folks can “absolutely” trust nothing will hinder their votes’ delivery.
The House panel met to weigh the agency’s role in the 2024 elections, which has drawn substantial scrutiny from state election officials.
Mail-in voting jumped 25% between 2016 and 2020, subcommittee Chair David Joyce (R-Ohio) said, and this year “we expect that voting by mail will be popular again.”
DeJoy breezily brushed off concerns: “We’ve delivered in the heightened part of a pandemic, in the most sensationalized political time of elections.”
