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Friend,
Donald Trump is behind in the polls. He knows he's losing. So to save
his failing re-election campaign, he's got a new strategy: starve the
U.S. Postal Service and stop people from voting by mail.
The scariest part? It just might work.
As many as 70 percent of all votes could be cast by mail this year, but
Trump's new Postmaster General, a mega-donor and political hack named
Louis DeJoy, just instituted new rules ending overtime for workers in
order to slow down the mail and overwhelm postal workers in the weeks
before the election.
Already, mail that used to take three to five days is taking weeks to be
delivered. Prescriptions are delayed. Bills and paychecks are late. And
absentee ballots will take way too long to arrive to those who request
them.
By blocking the postal service from using overtime workers, Trump's
postmaster general is practically guaranteeing that millions of mail-in
ballots will go uncounted.
Meanwhile, reports are rolling in of states discarding tens of thousands
of ballot applications for specious reasons, and right-wing operatives
are suing to try to stop widespread absentee ballot programs like the
ones in California and Nevada.
And that's just what we know about. There are surely even more shameless
efforts to undermine vote by mail happening under the radar.
Common Dreams will NOT let these shenanigans pass unnoticed. But as
nonprofit journalists, we rely on support from our readers.
Will you donate to help support Common Dreams' independent, nonprofit
journalism and our efforts to uncover Trump's shameless attacks on
vote-by-mail?
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