If Donald Trump Controls The Mail, He Controls Democracy

[CousinIT]

‪https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-us-postal-service-democracy_n_5f31f7d2c5b6fc009a5c6381

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night can slow the mail. But President Donald Trump can.

Late Friday, Trump’s handpicked new postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, announced sweeping organizational changes that promise to further undercut the U.S. Postal Service’s ability to perform a vital democratic function: the timely delivery of mail-in ballots. This comes during an election when as many as 80 million Americans are expected to vote by mail because of the risk of contracting COVID-19.

DeJoy, a major Republican fundraiser and Trump donor, reassigned or sidelined almost two dozen high-ranking USPS officials in a move to centralize his control of the agency, also instituting a hiring freeze and voluntary early retirements.

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), chair of the House subcommittee responsible for oversight of the Postal Service, called the reorganization “deliberate sabotage” and an obvious attempt to interfere in the election.

“One way to suppress the vote ― and they’re experts in vote suppression — is to slow down the delivery of mail,” Connolly told CNN on Monday.

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1. From the prophet Newman.

[Throck]

2. Screw tRump, if I have to buy a hazmat suit to vote in person I will.

Fuck his mail fraud scheme.

[Thekaspervote]

3. Right there with ya!

[SWBTATTReg]

4. No he doesn't. We, the user of the mails both incoming and outgoing, control the mail. Period.

If the mail delivery gets to the point of being hampered/slowed down significantly, I suspect that many workarounds will arise and many will vote in person instead. Remember, if they delay the mail in ballots, just how many ballots will be republican vs. democratic in nature? How in the hell will they be able to tell this?

Most small town mail goes to the bigger cities for processing too, another fact that I think rump and his ignorant and incompetent cronies have failed to recognize.

If trump and/or cronies tampers w/ the big city mail, and leave the small town mail alone (for his voters supposedly, and again, how does one tell the difference in blue vs. red?), that all will be fine.

The reality of the situation is that small town mail by the truckloads are shipped to big town sorting centers, and processed and then shipped back out, and part of the mail that rump is messing with too.

In short, a similar thing will happen like it did in Michigan, where the republicans insisted that voting still occur (they thought that republicans would win, but didn't).

[Blue Owl]

5. Never before has a president seized control of the USPS

Trump and Barr need to be reigned in -- this is an assault on democracy. These men are cowards at their core. We the goddamn people need to intervene or we lose our freedom, plain and simple.