Public Pressure And Lawsuits Kept USPS From Handing Trump The Election. Here's How.

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As soon as it became apparent that operational changes made by DeJoy were slowing the mail, an enormous wave of public pressure, including congressional hearings, forced him to back off of making any operational changes before the election. Voting rights advocates sued to force him to roll back the remaining changes, and public pressure and the U.S. district judge overseeing the federal case, Emmett Sullivan, caused the USPS to adopt what it calls “extraordinary measures” to keep ballots moving faster than the rest of the mail.

“This summer, we all had really grave concerns,” said Tammy Patrick, a senior adviser at the nonprofit Democracy Fund. Under DeJoy, the post office was signaling it wouldn’t give mail-in ballots the urgent treatment it had in past elections. DeJoy’s high-profile grilling at the hands of congressional Democrats appeared to make a big difference, Patrick said.

“After the congressional hearings, you saw a renewed commitment, the postmaster promised they were going to maintain that commitment. And what I saw leading up to Election Day was exactly that.”




https://www.huffpost.com/entry/usps-missing-ballots-election_n_5fab206dc5b635e9de9ce657

[riverwalker]

1. Emmett Sullivan is a hero

He’d be great SCOTUS pick.

[chia]

4. + 1,000

[Demsrule86]

5. Also, many used a drop box or voted in person ...early vote.

[Miigwech]

2. Sure looked that way. The nick of time.

[lagomorph777]

3. Still had an impact, but less than originally planned.

I think many House and Senate races were affected more, due to smaller margins.