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>In fairness, there's already clear evidence of attempts to subvert the election via manipulation of the USPS. Yet you fail to provide said clear evidence. Th
by TMWNN 6y ago
>In fairness, there's already clear evidence of attempts to subvert the election via manipulation of the USPS.
Yet you fail to provide said clear evidence.
There were a lot of nonsense allegations made which conflated delays in USPS parcel processing (volume skyrocketing because of COVID19) and flats processing (volume dropping for same reason, and COVID19-related absences), and related logistics adjustment (removing flats processing machines), and normal attrition/adjustment in USPS drop box locations, with "Trump is trying to stop the vote!" I wrote more about this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24290622 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24290622 .
- AlisdairO 6y agoThe president himself has admitted that he wishes to starve the USPS to limit widespread mail in voting: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-admits-he-wants-block-usps-funding-sabotage-mail-voting-2020-8 https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-admits-he-wants-block-... . This in a pandemic where vote by mail is something any sane government should be supporting enthusiastically. Potentially relatedly, right now there's 300,000 ballots missing/delayed: https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2020/1103/USPS-won-t-comply-with-order-to-sweep-for-300-000-delayed-ballots https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2020/1103/USPS-won-t-... .