California
governor Gavin Newsom signed two executive orders to facilitate mail-in voting
for the 2020 election after Donald Trump sought to discourage it by defunding
the Postal Service.
New Jersey
governor Phil Murphy also announced an executive order making it easier to vote
by mail.
Elizabeth
Warren demanded a probe of the recently-appointed Trump-allied postmaster.
Maxine
Waters held a press conference at the main US Post office in Los Angeles to
bring attention to Trump’s actions against the USPS.
Joe Biden
called the USPS situation “bizarre”.
Barack Obama: Trump attempting to 'kneecap' USPS
In a
podcast with former campaign manager, David Plouffe, former president Barack
Obama called out the Trump campaign’s efforts to impede the US Postal Service
directly. Obama said:
What we’ve
seen in a way that is unique to modern political history is a president who is
explicit in trying to discourage people from voting. What we’ve never seen before
is a president say: ‘I’m going to try to actively kneecap the postal service to
[discourage] voting and I will be explicit about the reason I’m doing it’.
That’s sort of unheard of.
USPS warns 46 states' ballots may not arrive in time
According
to the Washington Post, the USPS had warns 46 states, and Washington DC that
some mailed ballots may not arrive in time to be counted for November election.
From the
Post:
Some states
anticipate 10 times the normal volume of election mail. Six states and D.C. received
warnings that ballots could be delayed for a narrow set of voters. But the
Postal Service gave 40 others — including the key battleground states of
Michigan, Pennsylvania and Florida — more-serious warnings that their
long-standing deadlines for requesting, returning or counting ballots were
“incongruous” with mail service and that voters who send ballots in close to
those deadlines may become disenfranchised.
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