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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Haul Louis DeJoy In Front Of A Criminal Grand Jury'
11/04/20 8:03am
'Haul Louis DeJoy In Front Of A Criminal Grand Jury'
Outrage After Postal Service Misses Court-Ordered Election Day Deadline. "It's how we all thought they would do it. It's what they said they wouldn't do. And it's exactly what they are doing."
By Common Dreams
Election experts and other critics of voter suppression responded with alarm Tuesday after the United States Postal Service failed to meet a court-ordered afternoon deadline to conduct sweeps at mail processing facilities to "ensure that no ballots have been held up and that any identified ballots are immediately sent out for delivery."
Earlier Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan of the District of Columbia had ordered the sweeps between 12:30 pm and 3:00 pm ET, and set a 4:30 pm ET deadline for facilities to file a status update. John Kruzel, a reporter at The Hill, tweeted Tuesday afternoon that the USPS failed to comply, in spite of saying this week that about 300,000 ballots had entered the mail sorting system but lacked a delivery scan.
In response to Kruzel's long tweet thread, Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-N.J.) took aim at the postmaster general, tweeting: "Haul Louis DeJoy in front of a criminal grand jury."
Journalist Ari Berman, who has extensively covered voting rights in the United States, similarly declared that "Louis DeJoy should be held in contempt of court and face criminal charges for obstructing an election if these ballots are not delivered on time."
Berman noted that mail delays have gotten worse in the lead-up to Election Day. For months, voting rights advocates have slammed DeJoya GOP megadonor who took over the Postal Service earlier this yearfor forcing mail operations changes that critics charge were intended in part to sabotage the November election.
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'Haul Louis DeJoy In Front Of A Criminal Grand Jury' (Original Post)
babylonsister
Nov 2020
OP
Again, Republicans ignore laws not in their favor and suffer no consequences.
Hermit-The-Prog
Nov 2020
#6
whistler162
(11,155 posts)1. 1 count of voter supression
per absentee ballot that didn't make it out of the PO.
RockCreek
(739 posts)2. This directly affected elections run by states
And state elections.
Couldn't he get charged in each state where he pulled this?
bdamomma
(63,849 posts)3. Where
is he hiding out??? Get in front of Judge Sullivan after obstructing ballots to be delivered.
highplainsdem
(48,978 posts)4. +1,000,000
diva77
(7,640 posts)5. Our laws & enforcement regarding justice for lost votes are so weak.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,346 posts)6. Again, Republicans ignore laws not in their favor and suffer no consequences.