Postmaster General Luis DeJoy says the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is ready to handle the impending deluge of election mail, including mail-in ballots, ahead of Nov. 5.
“We’re going to be in great shape for the election. I’m pretty confident about everything that we’re doing. The American people should be confident,” DeJoy told The Associated Press on Aug. 29, ahead of a media briefing on the service’s election preparations.
That marks an improvement from 2020, when DeJoy spent his first months on the job navigating an entirely new election landscape marked by unprecedented levels of absentee voting thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic.
At the time, DeJoy faced criticism over his political donations to then-President Donald Trump and for pushing cost-cutting measures amid backlogs and warnings that USPS was barreling toward insolvency.
Still, a post-analysis found that USPS delivered 97.9 percent of mail-in ballots from voters to election officials within three days in 2020. That figure improved to 98.9 percent during the 2022 midterms. […]
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