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By Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON–A president falling in the polls and desperate to hold onto power is delaying delivery of life-saving medicine and crippling the U.S. Postal Service to stop vote-by-mail.
It’s the latest scheme by GOP Oval Office occupant Donald Trump to win the 2020 election. And his new Postmaster General, Republican big giver Louis DeJoy, is doing his dirty work.
News reports say DeJoy has a spreadsheet of hundreds of mail-sorting machines he is pulling from post offices and sorting centers around the U.S. He specifically is yanking the machines that push through large, flat envelopes, just like the envelopes that enclose absentee ballots, to and from voters.
In addition, in cities from coast to coast, he has ordered the removal of outdoor mailboxes, particulary in neighborhoods with large minority populations. MSNBC filmed crews yesterday as they tore out mail boxes in the streets of Oakland, California and other cities.
No machines and no mail boxes equals delays. Delays equal late mail. And late mail equals votes that come in after November 3 and don’t get counted....
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