From: januarybaybee@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, August 1, 2020 at 1:43:34 PM UTC-7, why mail-in ballots scare him   
   wrote:   
   > Because mail-in ballots mean the voters can cast their votes avoiding   
   gerrymandering and voter suppression by the party that wants to hold onto   
   power.   
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   Yep, he's taking some desperate measures to stop the mail-in ballot system.  I   
   had visions of him sending in his secret, camouflaged, federal agents to steal   
   post boxes from every city in every state.  But this is how he's trying to do   
   it:   
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   New postal policies that are slowing service may affect 2020 mail-in voting,   
   union leader says   
      
    (CNN)New, recently implemented US Postal Service procedures -- which have led   
   to delays across the country in mail delivery -- could affect mail-in voting   
   for the November election, a union leader warned.   
      
   The American Post Workers Union's president, Mark Dimondstein, told CNN in an   
   interview Friday that the union has received a number of reports from postal   
   workers and customers over the last two weeks that mail delivery has slowed   
   and "degraded." The    
   union represents more than 200,000 Postal Service employees and retirees.   
      
   Dimondstein said it's been "demoralizing and upsetting" to the workers who   
   have continued to work throughout the pandemic.   
      
   He told CNN that while postal workers are capable of handling voting by mail,   
   "obviously if the postal management is putting in policies to slow down the   
   mail, then that has an impact on everything, including ballots."   
      
   "The states run elections, not the Postal Service. But the Postal Service is   
   here to move those ballots. And when mail gets slowed down, it becomes a   
   concern everywhere," Dimondstein said.   
      
   The new procedures for the USPS were laid out in a memo earlier this month and   
   come under the leadership of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a longtime Donald   
   Trump supporter and fundraiser, who stepped into his role in June.   
      
   Trump has been a vocal critic of several states' expanding mail-in voting,   
   despite using that option to cast his own ballot. As he currently trails his   
   2020 rival Joe Biden in the polls, Trump claimed on Thursday that delays   
   processing the mail-in votes    
   would undermine the legitimacy of the November 3 election and suggested   
   delaying it, though the power to set the election date lies with Congress.   
   There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud associated with vote by mail.   
      
   The Washington Post reported Thursday that bins of mail otherwise ready for   
   delivery have been left in post offices due to the scheduling and route   
   changes, and letter carriers are sorting more mail themselves, increasing the   
   delivery time. US Rep. Andy    
   Kim, a New Jersey Democrat, last week wrote to DeJoy, saying that his   
   constituents have been experiencing delivery delays for more than three days.   
      
   https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/31/politics/usps-mail-in-voting-   
   020-election/index.html   
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   Stacey Abrams says Trump is trying to 'steal the vote' by undermining the US   
   Postal Service   
      
   Stacey Abrams accused President Donald Trump of trying to indirectly rig the   
   election by "undermining" the US Postal Service, which could play an outsize   
   role this November as millions of Americans are forced to vote by mail due to   
   the coronavirus    
   pandemic.   
      
   "We will not be able to effectively count the votes of every eligible American   
   because he's doing his best to undermine our confidence in the process, but   
   worst he's doing best to actually steal the vote by undermining the postal   
   service," Abrams told    
   CNN's Dana Bash on Sunday.   
      
   The USPS is facing a major financial crisis during the coronavirus pandemic   
   and has said it could run out of money as soon as September unless Congress   
   bails it out.   
      
   But Trump rejected a federal relief package that would rescue the USPS, and   
   his newly appointed postmaster general Louis DeJoy, has reportedly ordered   
   significant cost-cutting measures, which Abrams said could prevent votes from   
   being delivered in time    
   to be counted.   
      
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