Post offices are reporting that Trump’s Postmaster General has been removing mail sorting machines as he takes his mail-in voting sabotage to a new level.
Via NPR’s Steve Inskeep:
Startling: Kimberly Karol, of postal service workers' union in Waterloo, Iowa, tells @noelking the USPS not only banned overtime, but is having sorting machines removed in her area: "That also hinders our ability to process mail." @NPR
— Steve Inskeep (@NPRinskeep) August 11, 2020
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But asked by @NoelKing if the USPS can still handle voting by mail this fall, the postal clerk and union leader answers yes: they've been in business for centuries, and "we still have the system that will do that." @NPR
— Steve Inskeep (@NPRinskeep) August 11, 2020
Trump began Monday’s “coronavirus briefing” with a prolonged false information attack on mail-in voting:
Trump began his coronavirus briefing with a false attack on mail-in voting, and then he bragged about the stock market.
The biggest problem with the ballot applications was an incorrect return address to the registrar> https://t.co/xxF8lqLWUK pic.twitter.com/G2HwBseSYO
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) August 10, 2020
Trump is obsessed with slowing down the Postal Service so that potentially millions of mailed-in ballots will be invalidated because they missed the submission deadline. The short-term goal for Trump is to disrupt mail-in voting, but the long-term plan for Republicans has always been the privatization of the US Postal Service.
Donald Trump is doing everything in his power to cheat and rig the 2020 election.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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