State and local leaders representing all 50 state issued a letter to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy about potential “issues” at the United States Postal Service that may affect the upcoming presidential election and more voters.
Election officials nationwide highlighted” significant questions about processing center operations, lost or delayed election email, and front-line education deficiencies affecting USPS’s ability to deliver vote mail in a timely and accurate manner,” according to the letter to DeJoy.
According to vote leaders, USPS workers are “uninformed” about election email policies, leading to “ballots being deliberately held to remediate false accounting problems, significantly delayed, or
then improperly processed”.
” In some cases, this has resulted in mis-delivery of votes for that citizens are disenfranchised”, the officers warned.
Authorities acknowledged the problems associated with training the USPS ‘ over 600, 000 people, but warned the “frequency and widespread distribution of training-related problems” makes it clear” these are not one-off mistakes or a difficulty with certain facilities”.
The issues, according to the officials, “are a pervasive lack of understanding and enforcement of USPS policies by its employees.”
” USPS needs a committed partner,” said state and local election officials. We ask that you take immediate, tangible corrective action to fix the USPS election mail service’s ongoing performance issues, the letter states. Failure to do so will increase voter turnout and erode voter confidence in the election process.
Adrienne Marshall, the USPS ‘ director of election mail and government services, said in a statement that the service is “ready to deliver” and highlighted its” success” during the 2020 election.
” We were successful in 2020 delivering a historic volume of mail in ballots, also in 2022 and will do so again in November 2024″, she said, according to CBS News.
