Trump's attack on U.S. Postal Service is 2020 election sabotage amid COVID-19. Be alarmed.

[Rogue Valley]

Trump's attack on U.S. Postal Service is 2020 election sabotage amid COVID-19. Be alarmed.

With COVID-19 still surging throughout the nation, it is difficult to imagine what America will look like on Election Day, Nov. 3. But one thing is certain: Even if we’ve begun to get control of the virus by then, many Americans who are immunocompromised, elderly or simply unwilling to take the risk of contracting the virus will need to vote by mail to ensure their voices are heard in our democracy. Every American should be deeply concerned by the Trump administration’s recent politicization and sabotage of the United States Postal Service. On May 7, during one of the deadliest weeks of the pandemic, Louis DeJoy was named as the nation’s new postmaster general. DeJoy’s primary qualification seems to have been that he donated over $1.2 million to the Trump Victory Fund and ran the Republican National Convention’s fundraising effort. Since DeJoy took over the Postal Service, he has implemented a series of controversial and deeply damaging new policies that have slowed mail delivery across the country and raised the hackles of postal workers, rural elected officials and election advocates. In recent decades, as states began to see the myriad advantages of vote by mail, more and more Americans have utilized this voting method. That includes many high-ranking Trump administration officials and President Donald Trump himself.

In the last presidential election, 33.6 million people — about 1 in 4 voters — voted by mail. If COVID-era primaries are any indication, that number will explode this November. In Kentucky’s June primary, for instance, absentee ballots accounted for 85% of all votes. In Michigan, more than three times as many voters have requested absentee ballots compared with the same period in 2016. And this is all done with virtually no cases of voter fraud, contrary to the president’s fulminations. This is a democratic emergency. The outcome of the November presidential election will almost certainly be decided by mail-in votes. And with about two-thirds of states claiming they will not accept any mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, how those votes are handled once voters return their ballots is among the most consequential policy decisions of the 2020 election. The Postal Service has been a thread connecting American communities since the nation’s fragile early days. We have relied on it through wars, natural disasters and, yes, pandemics. This November election could be the Postal Service’s most critical moment.

I strongly believe that the 2020 presidential election will be decided by mail-in votes. The Trump administration also believes this and since mid-June it has rapidly been destroying the USPS. Although DeJoy said he will now cease the destruction, major damage has already been done and DeJoy said he will not replace what has been destroyed. The Trump administration and DeJoy did not simply take automatic mail sorting machines offline by pulling the plug, they disassembled and destroyed these machines so they could not be salvaged. I saw a news piece this morning from a Post Office supply facility in Patterson, NJ. The camera panned the exterior of the place and machine parts were strewn everywhere. The reporter said this was where the disassembled sorting machines in the New Jersey area were being sent, in pieces. The components arrive in huge dumpsters. She said four new dumpsters arrived this week. From here, all the metal parts will be sent to metal salvage yards.

To prevent Americans from utilizing mail-in voting, the Trump administration has disassembled an unknown number of large-working-mail-sorting machines from primarily blue (Democrat) cities and counties.

Millions of our [disassembled] tax dollars are now being shipped to scrap yards across the country. Think about that, and vote early.

US Postal Service Delivery Bar Code Sorter (DBCS) automatic sorting machine.

 

[Jetboogieman]

If people want to live in a Democracy and vote, they should move to one.

This is Trumps country now. :shrug: