CREW Requests USPS Records on Mail-in-Voting Plans

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Source: Citizens for Ethics

CREW REQUESTS USPS RECORDS ON MAIL-IN-VOTING PLANS

June 16, 2020

Last month, the United States Postal Service announced that Louis DeJoy would be serving as the next Postmaster General. DeJoy, a Republican fundraiser and top donor to the Trump campaign, has questionable experience which has raised concerns, especially with the growing importance of mail-in voting. President Trump has repeatedly attacked voting by mail with very little evidence, despite USPS OIG indicating that expanding voting by mail could boost the agency’s revenue by $2 million annually. With the members of the Trump administration demonstrating little concern for accountability and routinely misusing government resources for partisan ends, placing a partisan Trump donor in this position could potentially undermine the essential role that USPS plays in ensuring Americans are able to vote by mail, especially amidst the coronavirus pandemic.

CREW has requested documents regarding voting by mail between USPS employees and DeJoy, the USPS Board of Governors, the previous Postmaster General Megan Brennan, along with other various entities. The requested documents also include any communications between USPS employees and members of Congress regarding DeJoy’s qualifications for his new appointment.

These documents could help provide insight into USPS’s capacity to support voting by mail in advance of DeJoy’s arrival. The public deserves to know and understand why DeJoy was hired and if this appointment will interfere with their right to vote and have their vote counted. As Election Day quickly approaches, this matter is more pressing than ever and the American people should know if, once again, Trump is using political pawns to undermine our democratic rights.

Read the requests here and here.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/storage.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/16135613/USPS-OIG-FOIA-re-Vote-by-Mail-6-16-2020-v1.pdf

https://s3.amazonaws.com/storage.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/16135618/USPS-FOIA-re-Vote-by-Mail-6-16-2020-v1-1.pdf

Read more: https://www.citizensforethics.org/foia/usps-louis-dejoy-mail-in-voting/

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Walter Shaub Retweeted

https://twitter.com/waltshaub

Yesterday was Republican mega-donor and Trump ally Louis DeJoy’s first day as the Postmaster General. Today
@CREWcrew
is requesting information about internal USPS briefings on voting by mail, IG recommendations, and DeJoy’s questionable qualifications. /1

Link to tweet

[mucifer]

1. I love CREW they were on Al Franken's radio show each week tearing apart the bush

administration.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. If anything smells of inside job

this is it.

But, after 4 years of this nonsense, Trump's stench precedes him. So groups are adept at smelling him out.

[jimfields33]

3. I can't believe this position doesn't need congressional approval

I am all for Presidents having a personal staff like chief of staff but I think we may need to re-evaluate positions that need senate approval. It seems like to many can be hired by the president without conditions.

[ancianita]

4. This is timely and important and CREW usually gets what it wants.

[yaesu]

5. it will be destroyed from within just like the FCC was,tRump cancer. nt

[JudyM]

6. Important initiative! Sending CREW a donation. Here's the link for anyone else who's interested.

https://www.citizensforethics.org/