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The postmaster general spent August 21 telling senators there was no plan to restore removed mail-sorting machines, even as states sued and election officials warned that the Postal Service was becoming a national voting crisis. What had started as a slow-burn operational dispute was hardening into a direct threat to confidence in mail ballots.
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The postmaster general spent August 21 telling senators there was no plan to restore removed mail-sorting machines, even as states sued and election officials warned that the Postal Service was becoming a national voting crisis. What had started as a slow-burn operational dispute was hardening into a direct threat to confidence in mail ballots.
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The postmaster general spent August 21 telling senators there was no plan to restore removed mail-sorting machines, even as states sued and election officials warned that the Postal Service was becoming a national voting crisis. What had started as a slow-burn operational dispute was hardening into a direct threat to confidence in mail ballots.
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