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Why are some mail-in ballots received after Election Day despite being postmarked before Election Day? “Will it shock you to learn,” Marc Elias asks, “that the same postmaster general who wants to cooperate with Donald Trump … that under his tenure, election mail is moving slower and slower?”

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Reminder that Biden failed to remove Trump's postmaster general De Joy who sabotaged the Pandemic election by closing down lots of mail-in vote opportunities, which caused thousands of needless Covid infections, some of which fatal and others resulting in "Long Covid". Zero accuntability.

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Reminder that a shitload of GOP Congresspeople were implicated as ringleaders in the GOP-driven Jan 6 coup attempt. Then Biden left Trump's GOP FBI director Wray in charge, installed GOP boy Garland as AG, and then those two cleared all the ringleaders with testimony of a far right radical nut job.

I work for a nonprofit in the development/fundraising department. If I understand correctly, a similar deadline change occurred for donations, received at the end of the year. Previously, as long as a donation was postmarked by 12/31, it was counted in that year. Now it has to be received by 12/31.

Also the USPS rule change they made this year… where the post office no longer guarantees that the mail will be postmarked on the same day it is received. Basically, the post mark becomes useless as proof of mailing by a certain date. Definitely affects mail in ballots.

I love my post office and my carrier. But way back in trump 1.0, Louis DeJoy started destroying the the postal service organization to bow to trump and to get contracts for his company. USPS is just another proud government service destroyed by trump. Fight back, people.

DeJoy eliminate 711 automated mail sorters in early 2020 and the USPS is now postmarking everything at the main postal facility. I don't live in the backwoods and that's still 30 miles from me. In rural areas, mail might not get to the main postal facility or its destination daily.

What about the millions in sorting equipment, literal wooden shelves , trucks and other tools DJT took away in 2020 cycle? NEVER REPLACED by Dems. No impeachment against DeJoy? Prosecution of GOP CA for the fake drop boxes ? No Dem state laws against J6rs at poll station or ICE? Wait till 2029?!

Much more important to them is that it's a way for Democrats who have trouble getting to in-person polls to vote. People who can't drive, people who live where there isn't public transportation, people who have to work, people who don't want to go out in a pandemic (a VERY Dem-heavy segment in 2020)