Of the 13 postal districts serving key battleground states: • 4 failed to meet any on-time service goals handling first-class mail between April 1 & June 30 • 6 districts achieved only 1 That may foreshadow ballot counting controversies to come.
Based on its own performance measures — and the loss of hundreds of Wisconsin ballots on their way to voters this summer — the U.S. Postal Service has its work cut out for it before Election Day.
Any other year, a steady underperformance of mail delivery in swing states would go unnoticed. This year, though, the delivery rates released Monday have taken on outsized importance: They may foreshadow ballot counting controversies to come. There's also worry — mostly among Democrats — that such delays could worsen under recent management changes by U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a major donor to the Republican National Committee and to President Trump, who has repeatedly falsely claimed that mail-in voting is rife with fraud. Three months into the job, DeJoy has ended overtime and insisted that trucks leave on time even if mail isn't fully loaded.
The previously unreported missing deliveries follow April's breakdown when thousands of ballots weren't delivered on time during the state's primary. "At one point where it said it was in process or was submitted, it was approved, they were preparing it — and it never went beyond that," Werner recalled.
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