Please act decisively.”“We do not have much time to prepare and our state, like others, will rely absolutely on the USPS’s efficiency,” Pascrell wrote. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) is calling for a grand jury criminal probe into what he characterizes as President Donald Trump and his hand-picked postmaster general’s “subversion” of the Nov. 3 elections through mail manipulation. Just as the USPS should be gearing up for a spike in mail volume, DeJoy banned overtime and imposed new limits on mail delivery times in an internal memo last month. Trump has already declared the Nov. 3 election the “most corrupt” in American history because of the anticipated increase in mail-in ballots, even before any votes have been cast. He has claimed, without any evidence, that the mail-in ballots will be “rigged,” even though he and first lady Melania Trump on Wednesday requested their own mail-in ballots for Tuesday’s Florida primary.

Source: Huffington Post August 16, 2020 04:56 UTC