The American Postal Workers Union president says the Postal Service may run out of cash by early fall without relief from Congress — which the Trump administration opposes. That would jeopardize mail-in voting at a time more voters are turning toward it.
Amber McReynolds, CEO of the National Vote At Home Institute, says election officials should follow best practices that have been developed in some Western states, where voting by mail is a common if not the standard practice.McReynolds says she's not concerned about the prospect for an increased volume of mail if more people send in their ballots.
"When you look at the overall numbers," she says,"in what the post office processes on a yearly basis, adding vote by mail is just a very small fraction of the volume that they normally deal with."on Friday it sent to state and local election officials, reminding them of the need to account for delivery times and suggesting they use bar codes to identify their mail-in ballots.The Postal Service's financial woes pose another concern. The agency ran an $8.
Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers Union, says the Postal Service may run out of cash by early fall without an infusion of funding from Congress — which the Trump administration opposes."If the post office is allowed to run out of money without relief then all postal operations become in jeopardy — and that would include the tremendous access to the ballot box and not just the ballot box, but voter information," Dimondstein says.
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