From my probably futile letter to the US Post Office Board of Governors:

Regardless of which party is actually favored or disadvantaged by the suppression of mail-in ballots, it is indisputably anti-democratic (not to mention unconstitutional) to suppress a citizen’s right to vote based on a public delivery service’s inability/refusal to fulfill its basic contract with people who pay for and rely on their services (see details about weeks’ delayed and undelivered certified mail on last page.)

From my probably futile e-message to the Senate Committee that oversees the Post Office:

subject: Letter to the US Postal Board of Governors

I’d like you to have a copy of the letter I sent to the board of one of the agencies your committee oversees.

During a nationwide disruption of mail service, as partisan chatter ramps up about massive mail-in voter fraud (which does seem to occur at a steady 0.00025%, according to the Heritage Foundation database) and the RNC begins bringing lawsuits to limit the counting of mailed ballots postmarked on time but received late, it is hard to understand how nobody with oversight is taking action to correct long, random, system-wide mail delays.  

In an election expected to be very close in the five or six states that decide every presidential contest, eliminating as many as a few thousand “late” votes can swing the election to one side or the other.  Deliveries from the new Atlanta mail processing center were 98% on-time in its first year, 2022.  Then the efficiency rate was corrected:  2023: 52%, 2024 YTD 72%.  

I would love to be in communication with your committee on this issue.  If there is anything else I can provide, or any answer you have to reassure me that steps are being taken to correct this systemic bug in time for an election untainted by this form of voter suppression, please have your office get in touch with me.

Yours in the fight to protect our experiment in democracy,

G. Gordon Liddy
(should I have used my real name?)