Amber McReynolds, CEO of the National Vote At Home Institute, says election officials should follow best practices that have been developed in some Western states, where voting by mail is a common if not the standard practice.McReynolds says she's not concerned about the prospect for an increased volume of mail if more people send in their ballots.
"When you look at the overall numbers," she says,"in what the post office processes on a yearly basis, adding vote by mail is just a very small fraction of the volume that they normally deal with."on Friday it sent to state and local election officials, reminding them of the need to account for delivery times and suggesting they use bar codes to identify their mail-in ballots.The Postal Service's financial woes pose another concern. The agency ran an $8.
Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers Union, says the Postal Service may run out of cash by early fall without an infusion of funding from Congress — which the Trump administration opposes."If the post office is allowed to run out of money without relief then all postal operations become in jeopardy — and that would include the tremendous access to the ballot box and not just the ballot box, but voter information," Dimondstein says.
As people pack into Walmart and Home Depot and now pack the streets to loot and riot, standing 6ft apart in a voting line is sounding pretty safe to me.
Buy stamps & send postcards to the white house that say 'you're fired'
We must save our USPS.
Your organization is part of the problem not the solution
NEW MANAGEMENT THAT THE CORRUPT WANNABE POTUS PUT IN PLACE TO SUIT HIS AGENDA OF TAKING OVER THE USPS TO SERVE HIS SICK GREEDY DESIRES.
The only people who want this are establishment Dems. Aka, the same moms who hid the Bernie votes last time.
CMvozOL No worries. Everyone has been out 'protesting' so now there is no need for mail in ballots since we're all getting out 'protesting'. If we can 'protest', we can certainly go to the voting booths!
Я вам не верю
People can go out shopping everyday but they can't fill out a simple ballot that costs nothing? Who are you trying to kid?
Cheating is the only way for him.
There is no longer an argument for mail-in voting since it's obvious that nobody is afraid of the 'virus.' If you can go out and protest/riot, then you can vote in person!
Why trust these Government in any regard?Votes should be watched by the UN. It’s easy to rig Mails. A Government that started several war’s based on lies,give a shit on democracy.And this administration don’t show any respect to the people nor to the constitution
Voters aren't turning to mail in voting, Democrats who want to steal elections are turning to mail in voting.
America has no president
GOD DAMN IT
If you can loot, protest, grocery shop, get a hair cut, go to the beach, lake, pool..etc You can fucking go vote.
With 'new management' being a trump shill. TrumpCrimeSyndicate
the USPS is one of the last bastions of real democracy in this country. It serves everyone, even those in far flung rural areas, and has lifted up vulnerable populations out of poverty and given them purpose.
We're all doomed.
NPR has blood on its hands for the violence that’s now happening. Every, single, affiliate.
The *president is all hot air. Ignore his ridicule, Trump will be gone soon. He'll appreciate getting mail in his padded cell.
This is the REAL LOOTING. Privatization means opportunities for billionaires and goodbye to well paying union jobs. The cost to repair damages from what was “looted” during the riots is CHUMP CHANGE to the billions private companies will make from the PO’s dismemberment.
We need a postcard campaign. DoubleDown DoubleDuty SaveUSPS DumpTrump2020
As an outsider looking in from Australia, I find it absolutely extraordinary that the US President is actively cheering the demise of organisations like the USPS and various newspapers. This would be thousands of Americans losing their jobs. Incredible........
What happens after the Anarchists burn their Post Offices down, and they don’t have direct deposit for their stimulus checks?
The USPS has its issues but as to mail-in voting, the problem is/will be with local election administrators. Many struggle with their current systems and wholesale changes could prove disastrous.
LoL Because of the Rona? LoL
Stop spreading false propaganda to fix an election
Why do you say “ridicule”? You did not Trump!
WA, aside from mail, provides strategically located ballot drop boxes.
Well, you know, fuck this president.
the post office is a dinosaur that should be ridiculed
Democrats love cheat-by-mail voting.
Your rioting pals are burning post service trucks, so it looks like voting by mail scam is going up in flames
Mail in voting is exactly why Trump doesn’t want to help the USPS
Very convenient.
I did not know the o in post office stood for Obama!
carljungkook REMINDER THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE IS OUR ALLY! DO NOT BURN MAIL TRUCKS! IF POSSIBLE TRY TONSTOP AND PERSON TRYING TO DESTROY USPS PROPERTY AND PROTECT USPS PROPERTY!
The republicans have been trying to do away with USPS for decades. JeffBezos shift some of your shipping to USPS
You don’t need the postoffice for voting. There are drop boxes located all over your cities and towns.
And then another group of people go on unemployment, thanks to realDonaldTrump and the GOP.
Coincidence?
realDonaldTrump doesn’t want mail in ballots and will shutter the post office to stop it.
What a coinkidink
LauraMiers He and his sycophant, anti-American thugs have been trying to kill the post office for a long time. He’s denied it, which means it’s a top priority. No victory in Nov. is not an option USPS is American Apple Pie. Hardest working people in American. Norman Rockwell.
Take the ballot to a drop box, many cities have them.
Votes held up, no resolution prior to Jan 21, we may have two “presidents” and the beginnings of a real contest, one that will result in the elimination of the trump dregs
pebbles2day This is by design!
I hope people start mailing letters to each other again. I think I might start sending hand written letters again. It means so much more when you send an actual letter to someone you love, or anyone for that matter. S M N & L M A. 😋
I bought some stamps last month and again this week. I've been sending cards and care packages to friends and family and supporting small businesses that use the post office. We can all do a small part to help SaveThePostOffice
So would it help if we sent a million letters a week to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave expressing our dislike for the current occupant?
Let's start a Go Fund Me for the USPS like Capt. Tom in the UK who prompted 32 million pounds for the NHS. Impeached Trump must keep hands off of our postal service. If anything belongs to the American people it is this, from the Pony Express to the stamp it is truly American.
JeeneHobbs That is a feature of Trump’s rightwing authoritarian takeover of democracy. Not a bug.
That’s been the Trump plan all along. To suppress the vote. He knows he’s tanking GoJoe2020
Did RUS & DJT create a virus 2 start a pandemic, where bus. close & people are forced to stay home, right before an election, that they can’t go out in public to cast votes for & will have to rely on 🐌 mail & now the usps is broke & can’t mail said votes & rig election again?
cut the retirement benfits
He wants to eliminate mail-in voting so one way is to eliminate the post office.
Someone's happy
Do your JOB POTUS and stop tweeting!!
Rory00584469 😢😢😢
With the current situation (pandemic) they should suspend residential Saturday mail. Save $$$
Quelle surprise 😲!
Stealing the election yet again
Does anyone remember when amazon was funding the USPS until realDonaldTrump started talking shit, so JeffBezos made his own postal service?
I see a gofundme in the future.......
The founders deemed the post office was fundamental to a strong democracy. Why don’t republicans. They are constantly hiding behind the founders most ambivalent phrase.
Are all the suddenly anti post office people willfully ignorant of the the fact that pensions need to be secured by the post office for 75 years and it is not allowed to just raise rates on certain things?
Which is the plan.
Good. I would give up stamps in order to prevent criminal mail-in voting!
By design
If they do that then each state should get volunteers to hand them out and pick them up on certain dates. It can be done! We need to be smarter and more resilient
They are always running out of money.... whose running the shop?
A couple of months ago it was discussed here that if we all bought a sheet of stamps ($22) we could fund the post office thru Nov. I bought mine, sent some Dollar Tree greeting cards to friends and bought another sheet to do it again. Did you Live like your vote matters!!
Trump’s goal is to boost Republican’s chances in the elections by interfering with vote by mail.
Gee. What kawinkie dink.
That's exactly why he's taking over the post office with his friends. So they can mess with the election
A bit concerning.
I will crawl across glass to deliver my ballot. As will my neighbors. Count on it.
EnoughAlready RemoveTrumpNow
Maybe, someone (Bloomberg) who would spend 3/4 of a trillion dollars to try and save democracy by running for president, should grab that additional tax deduction and prop up the USPS till November.
👎🏽
It is intentional, as is placing a crony(partisan donor Louis Dejoy) in leadership at the post office to run it to the ground. They fear representation. They fear the democratic process.
this is intentional, putting vote by mail in jeopardy, fair elections in danger SpeakerPelosi JoeBiden SenSchumer election2020
Is anyone surprised?
Trump cannot win in a free and fair election.... he’ll do anything to cheat, disrupt, sabotage and dishonor our right to vote. If our turnout is overwhelmingly against him, he will lose no matter what schemes or dark money backs him. Are you registered?
FFS! the postal service is a branch of OUR government . “We the people” We have a right to send & receive mail
Might BillGates and/or JeffBezos and/or WarrenBuffett and/or Mark Cuban et al. float the USPS loan, if trump and senatemajldr succeed in derailing funding?
They just need to last a little longer till a real president takes office JoeBiden !
Jeff Bezos ought to offer the services of Amazon to deliver ballots gratis.
Mail-in voting is a scam. The Coronavirus is over and as the MinneapolisRiors have shown, if people are willing to show up to riot/loot then they can show up to vote. VoterIDNow StopDemocratVoterFraud
It’s so obviously a ploy to prevent people from voting. The GOP will stop at NOTHING to destroy democracy in order to keep power to the dinosaurs that be.
You NPR/ Democrat machine are PUSHING vote by mail because it’s the only hope you have of ousting the bad orange man. What you are doing is fomenting civil war. If ‘voting irregularities’ lead to gun confiscation and unconstitutional actions , you will pay with your everything.
Isn’t that the whole purpose of withholding the funding?
It is all part of Trump's plan to send us into a despotic dictatorship, with him as President For Life. Our only hope is that his reign is a short one.
Here's another reason why voting this November is so important.
For this administration, That’s a feature, not a bug.
The reason the Repugs hate the USPS? One word: Unions
IOW: potus won’t do anything to improve election chances. Talk about rigging an election.
Start a go fund me account for the USPS. Guarantee you more would contribute than you think.
Compromise.
TRUMP STRIKES AGIN
If R's allow this to happen; they are as culpable as DT for the deleterious consequences; for interfering with free and fair elections. Real patriots don't do that. They honor the constitution and voting rights.
I wish we didn't have a president who is willing to put 600,000 people out of work and cripple an entire service just so he can try to win an election.
Hard to focus in campaigns of chaos... BUT🧐
This is where Jeff Bleeping Bezos needs to step in and fund/take over the post office.
US mail is an agency that is loved by everyone so why have they not been funded
Maybe this is one of the Duck’s plans to win the election...
Of course the Postal Service could just raise the price they charge Amazon ... that would generate cash.
BY DESIGN. All Republicans are against this because three more people that vote the less Republicans win. Trump said this. Out loud. Republicans are the most ANTI AMERICAN pieces of 💩.
The Republican Plan is working perfectly!
How convenient for the elections.
Trump knows what he’s doing. Mail in votes are counted and electronically Russia hacks them. Ha
Ohh no wonder he didn’t want to give relief to the USPS
Almost as if it’s by design 🧐
Everyone BUY STAMPS!
If you don't think this is deliberate I have a bridge to sell you. Trump knows exactly what he is doing.
That’s the plan.
Precisely why Rs won't fund it. Save the USPS one stamp at a time: send your Senators, your reps, and above all, the WH a note telling them what you think. Daily.
What an amazing coincidence!
All part of their plan. We need a counter plan!
And that explains why.
$15 billion in debt.
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