US Postal Service Refuses to Track 300,000 Voices | Abroad

The ballots intended for postal voting should be taken to election officials to ensure no ballots are withheld, the judge had ordered. Many states only count votes that are received before polling stations close. USPS is required by a federal judge to locate lost ballots at locations in a number of states where both presidential candidates appear to have a chance.

USPS lawyers argue that the postal company’s workflows would become too disturbed if the injunction were carried out. The postal service announced on Tuesday morning that 300,523 votes across the country had been registered upon entry to the postal sorting centers, but subsequently failed to pass through the scanners to be taken to the vote counters. Civil rights organizations campaigning for electoral rights are concerned that hundreds of thousands of votes have been lost in the postal system.

The Democrats and some judges also accuse USPS chief Louis DeJoy appointed by the Trump administration of deliberately making the postal service less efficient. As early as September, a federal judge ordered USPS to handle all election-related mail with priority and to have staff work overtime if necessary. DeJoy is an ardent Trump supporter who has poured thousands of dollars into the coffers of the Republicans.

Partly because of the corona pandemic, many more Americans voted by mail than four years ago. Trump argues without proof that postal votes promote election fraud.

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