Author: Ye Dehao
Source: Hong Kong 01
Under the threat of the epidemic, the number of voters who voted by mail in November this year will increase greatly.It may officially use cash reserves in September this year.
Earlier, after many arguments with the Democratic Party and the White House, although the White House was still unwilling to fund the US Post Office, Treasurer Mnuchin had reached a conditional loan agreement with the Post Office at the end of July and borrowed 10 billion US dollars from the latter., Let the postal department operate until May in the coming year.However, the problem does not stop there.
Trump himself has also expressed his post on the post office in recent days.On Thursday (August 13), he said (Democrat) requested $ 3.5 billion in mailing for mailing voting and mailing votes for national mailing, and they would have to give the postal department at 25 billion.There is a national mailing vote, because (postal department) will not be prepared enough.This remark seemed to imply that Trump wanted to deliberately obstruct the appropriation of the postal department, so that the voting of this year was delayed and chaotic, so that he could have a step -down order without failure.
I do n’t know if I know that I am out of words. On the same day, Trump clarified that if we can agree with a overall market rescue plan, the expenditure number will be far greater than the postal appropriation. Even if the postal appropriation is included, he will not deny the plan.
By Saturday (August 15), he attacked the mailing voting again, saying that mailing votes for the whole people would be catastrophic, and said that you would never know when the election ended, and warned the votes to disappear, discard and be discarded andCauses voters fraud.
However, no matter whether Congress will provide more funds for the Post Office, Trump seems to have sent Trojan horses that hindered the mailing votes into the Troy City, which may cause a large number of voters to obtain votes too late or too.The evening delivery of the election authorities, which caused a large number of original effective votes to fail, triggers the chaos of the election, allowing Trump, who made the polls greatly behind Biden to question the election results.This almost conspiracy discussion aroused the worries of Democrats.
The current postal director Louis Dejoy will not officially take office on June 16 this year.Dejoy is a Trump. In the past, he had no way to post the logistics business. He had donated about $ 2.7 million to Trump and Republicans since 2017, and Dejoy's wife was recently appointed as Trump as appointed asAmbassador to Canada.The interests of DEJOY and their families and the United States Post Office are also remarkable. Their officers and competitors of different contracts and competitors in the postal Department have up to $ 30 million to $ 75 million.
The reason why Democrats are worried that Dejoy is the Trojan sent by Trump to the postal station, because the new Dejoy official took office and opened up the source. When many employees entered isolation due to the epidemic, and the epidemic increased the online shopping package, it was forbidden.Employees work overtime, prohibit employees from sending emails late, and prohibit excess delivery itinerary, etc., leading to email delivery delays since July.
A memorandum of the US Post Office, which was obtained by the Washington Post and a date ordered on July 10, pointed out that the new arrangement may cause the mailing and distribution center (PDC) that the new arrangement may stay in the postal department (PDC), but if there is such a situation, it will appear.Employees can be adjusted for the next day for delays.These arrangements have a big gap with the traditional postal staff to ensure that the mail is not stranded, and the principles of training for timely delivery in time are sent by multiple delivery.
At the same time, the postal station of many states also began to take away the street mailbox.
It is difficult for us to grasp exact figures for the full picture of email delivery in the country.However, many post -migrant workers are worried about the new arrangements. For example, Scott Adams, the union chairman of the union representing MAINE on behalf of MAINE, pointed out to Reuters that thousands of mails brought thousands of mails.Delayed and attracted customers to actively inquiries.
Paul Hogrogian, the chairman of the National Mailing letter through the Hands Administration (NPMHU), also pointed out that more than 3,000 postman have been diagnosed with new crown pneumonia in the country and cannot work.Bring email and parcel processing and delivery delays.
As 34 states in the United States require mailing votes to be delivered on the day of the election, if the email delivery is delayed, there may be millions of votes that will fail.According to statistics released by the US election website FiveThirtyeight on August 3, 35 games that have been held on March 11 have available data for research data since March 11.above.It can be seen that in the important role of the US Post Office this year, email delays can determine who is defeated at any time.
According to the New York Times' visits in the key battlefield states in six elections, it was found that postal delays in each state had been found.Ohio (OHIO) Cleveland and Wisconsin Milwaukee both have email distribution center emails to accumulate mountains and even be processed the next day; Michigan has said that it only spent in the past.The drugs that can be delivered in 3 days will take nearly two weeks.Other American media also have similar reports.
In this regard, a spokesman for the US Post Office only stated that the new arrangement only stabilized the long -term financial difficulties of the Post Office, and it was not to slow down the delivery of mail or votes, and pointed out that the impact of new arrangements will be short -lived.In addition, a report released by the US Post Office in early July also warned multiple states that their mailing votes applied for a period is too close to the election date, and the postal department could send the voters to the voters before the election.
On August 7, DeJoy further reorganized the Postal Department, transferring or replaced 23 senior postal executives, including two people responsible for supervising daily operations.The Washington Post quoted analysts comments that reorganizations will concentrate on DEJOY.
Until Saturday (August 15), the Washington Post also reported that the US Post Office issued a warning to 46 states that the postal department could not guarantee that mailing votes could be delivered on time and got some calculations.
Although the postal director is not directly appointed by Trump, six members of the postal service board serving the director of DEJOY who are responsible for DEJOY are also appointed by Trump.Coupled with Trump constantly criticizing mailing voting, no wonder the Democratic Party would worry about Dejoy's conspiracy theory.
At present, the Democratic Party of Congress has launched an investigation of email delays and asked the postal service inspector (Inspector General) to intervene in the investigation of the possible conflicts of interest in Dejoy, and the inspector has also launched an investigation for the recent postal policy amendments.The Democrats of the House of Representatives also planned to propose a bill asking the Post Office to cancel all operational changes since January 1 this year, hoping to prevent the Trojan horses from happening.
Democratic Democrats during the summer vacation also rumored that it was also rumored that the vacation was canceled and returned to Washington to pass the relevant bill next week to try to disrupt the US Post Office anyway, and it was possible that legislation requested all mail votes as a first -level preferred email processing.This, of course, still requires the consent of the Republicans of the Senate.
The postal department is a rare federal agency recognized by all Americans, and 91%of Americans are satisfied with their services.However, no one thought that in Trump's political battle to stop the people's mailing votes, this position of neutrality and unsatisfactory institutions seemed to have become a place where the soldiers in the United States elections under the epidemic situation this year.
For the Democratic Party, this is a great misfortune.After all, the leader of the administrative agency is Trump himself.I don't know if Trump's suspected postal strategy will be successful after all?
