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Trump just told us how mail delays could help him corrupt the election
He suggested that only the votes that can be tallied on Election Day should count.
on big backlogs in mail delivery due to “cost-cutting” bythe new head of the U.S. Postal Service — who, by spectacular coincidence,
just happens to be a top Trump fundraiser.
The impact of those delays could be dramatically exacerbated by
state laws that invalidate ballots that are mailed before Election Day but arrive after Election Day.
Guess which key presidential swing states have such provisions invalidating ballots that arrive after Election Day?
All of them do, with the exception of North Carolina.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is
implementing changes that have critics charging that mail delays may be “the result of a political effort to undermine absentee voting.”
changes, The Post reports, include
“prohibiting overtime pay,
shutting down sorting machines early and
requiring letter carriers to leave mail behind when necessary to avoid extra trips or late delivery on routes.”
The result:
Trump himself is banking on these delays to save his reelection hopes. Trump is basically telling us so himself.
The new policies have resulted in at least a two-day delay in scattered parts of the country, even for express mail, according to multiple postal workers and union leaders.
Letter carriers are manually sorting more mail, adding to the delivery time.
Bins of mail ready for delivery are sitting in post offices because of scheduling and route changes.
And without the ability to work overtime, workers say the logjam is worsening without an end in sight.
It’s all there.
"So many years, I’ve been watching elections.
And they say the “projected winner” or the “winner of the election” —
I don’t want to see that take place in a week after November 3rd or a month or,
frankly, with litigation and everything else that can happen, years. Years.
Or you never even know who won the election.
You’re sending out hundreds of millions of universal, mail-in ballots — hundreds of millions.
Where are they going? Who are they being sent to?"
Trump is looking to declare himself winner on Election Day,
no matter how many mail ballots remain uncounted.
He will say they are fraudulent.
And if they tip the result against him,
he will say that outcome is rigged,
something he has already said publicly is inevitable.
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