US Postal Service delays threaten to disrupt election voting, officials say

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Guardian

Wed 11 Sep 2024 16.17 EDT


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 US Postal Service (USPS) that it hasn’t fixed persistent deficiencies.

The officials said in a letter 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. Repeated outreach to USPS to resolve the issues had failed, the officials added.

“We have not seen improvement or concerted efforts to remediate our concerns,” stated the letter. “In fact, many of the issues raised by election officials are echoed in the recent findings of the USPS Office of Inspector General Audit, Election Mail Readiness for the 2024 General Election.”

The letter to Louis DeJoy, the US postmaster general, came from two groups that represent top election administrators in all 50 states. A message seeking a response from USPS was not immediately returned.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/11/usps-mail-election-ballots-voting

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Link to LETTER (PDF) - https://www.nass.org/sites/default/files/NASS%20Letters/9.11.24%20NASS_NASED%20Letter%20to%20US%20Postmaster%20DeJoy.pdf

[turbinetree]

1. This is just fricking unacceptable.............fire this POS..........

[Think. Again.]

2. dejoy has been working for years toward this.

[usaf-vet]

8. Exactly. This has been the plan all along delay mail in ballots to put doubt in the election results. We are see it up..

... here in Northern Wisconsin. We have been living in the same house for 43 years and paid the taxes in two parts for 43 years until this year.

We DID NOT receive the mailed notice that the second payment was due.

So when we did get a notice, it said it was late, and there was a $91.32 late fee.

When my wife explained, we never got a second notice. They told her there was a mail problem.

They offered up a tale about a woman who mailed a check in June that didn't arrive until the first week of September.

We plan to complain to the head city clerk about the late fee when she is in the office next week.

[Evolve Dammit]

12. It is in our area too

[PSPS]

3. dejoy is a maga installed by trump for this very purpose

[bearsfootball516]

4. I'm voting in person this year.

I know that voting by mail is safe, but I'd just rather not leave it up to chance.

[elleng]

6. I may have to do the same.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

10. I'll deposit my mail-in ballot in a box outside city hall.

No postal service involved.

[elleng]

5. OH FFS!!!

[Blue Owl]

7. How many years now has that fuckstick DeJoystick been 'installed' at the USPS?

And where else can you get a job where you purposely decrease efficiency yet still remain employed? Something's gotta change in the system because shit like this just makes everyone's life miserable.

[GreenWave]

9. Let me guess. Blue cities get screwed under DeJoy. Use your SCOTUS powers Biden!

[Frank D. Lincoln]

11. Louis DeJoy - Why hasn't the Biden administration done anything about him after all this time?

Even at this late stage of the game, can Biden replace him or at least force him to do his job?

I've stated this before at DU: I think because of the importance of the 2024 election and because Republicans are going to cheat in various ways (and of course they've already started doing this), all Democrats, if they're able to, should vote in person. Vote in person PRIOR to November 5 if your state allows it. Another important reason for doing this is that the winner of the presidential election, as well as down ballot races, will be announced sooner (not as much waiting for mail-in ballots to be counted, which are more prone to Republican challenges anyway).

[Evolve Dammit]

13. I don't think they can as a "board" controls his appointment, and so far GOP controlled.

That said, I don't know but I'm sure they wish they could have booted his destructive ass years ago.

[Frank D. Lincoln]

16. I need to look into this more. nt

[Lulu KC]

14. Again and still?

Every. Damn. Election.

[mdbl]

15. Dejoy has F'd the postal service

Why the F is he still in that position?

[BumRushDaShow]

22. Who has "apologized"?

The law that created the Postal Board directs that the Board itself is the authority that would remove the Postmaster. The board member slots have been slowly replaced as terms expire (they require Senate confirmation and the Senate has focused on confirming JUDGES over most anyone else). The slots are party-limited (no more than 5 members of one party permitted).

The 2 slots that need to be filled (current occupants are on extension) were announced in July -

July 25, 2024
President Biden Announces Nominees

Home Briefing Room Statements and Releases

WASHINGTON – Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to serve as leaders in his administration:

Val Butler Demings, Nominee to be a Governor of the United States Postal Service Board of Governors

William Zollars, Nominee to be a Governor (Republican) of the United States Postal Service Board of Governors

(snip)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/07/25/president-biden-announces-nominees-4/

[live love laugh]

18. Jail that mutherfucker for election interference!

[YD Democrat]

19. Louis DeJoy

If I know this name, so should our President.

And Mister DeJoy? Head honcho of OUR service, otherwise known as the United States Postal Service?!
You have a solemn obligation to make sure our ballots are delivered on time and without interference.
No excuses. No shenanigans.

[DENVERPOPS]

20. DeJoy f'ed with the last elections

But his goal is two things..........Destroy mail in votes, AND destroy the USPS and bust another major union......

[Seinan Sensei]

21. He's in bed with private couriers

[Novara]

23. Why is that motherfucker DeJoy even still employed?

Four years later we're dealing with the exact same sabotage?

They've replaced republican-appointed people on the USPS board of governors. Why haven't they fucking fired him?

[oasis]

25. Termite DeJoy is eating away USPS infrastructure.