43%

Why worry about a US Postmaster General/megadonor for one of the presidential candidates who has crippled mail delivery across the country?

In desperation, and madder than the overheated freaks in Trump’s war room, I wrote my congressmember today, sending a copy of my letter to the Postal board of governors:

My attached letter to the chair of the Election Mail Committee poses this question: what is the Election Mail Committee doing in relation to the nationwide slowdown in mail delivery in the months before a national election that appears likely to be decided by mere thousands of votes in a few states?

It is staggering to me, and depressing, that nobody in the government seems to be addressing this serious issue ahead of an election where unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud are embraced by a partisan official, Postmaster Louis Dejoy, in position to make sure millions of mail-in ballots (26.6 million mail in votes were cast nationwide in the 2020 primaries, 43% of all votes cast in the 2020 election were by mail — per US Census) are not received in time to be “fraudulently” counted.

Your help in bringing this issue forward – and fixing it in time for the upcoming election – will be greatly appreciated. It is impossible for me to understand why I seem to be the only Democrat with hair on fire about this obvious form of voter suppression. It can be applied surgically, pinpointed by zipcode, making it all the more pernicious.

Subtract the Atlanta-area totals from the Georgia state vote and you guarantee the man who lost the state by 11,779 votes in 2020 all of Georgia’s Electoral College votes. The math is horrific in a democracy where the Electoral College has the final say, no?