UPDATE: Friday, May 10, 2024 · 2:15:25 PM +00:00 · distraught
Over 2 months ago, Biden nominated someone to fill 1 of 2 vacancies on the Postal Board.
Walsh would be the fourth Democrat to sit on the board, joining three Republicans and one independent. Federal statute requires no more than five members of the board be of the same party, meaning Biden could choose another Democrat to fill the remaining vacancy.
www.govexec.com/...
It’s been sitting in the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
www.congress.gov/...
Contact these folks to move it to the full Senate for approval:
Majority Members (8) |
Minority Members (7) |
Peters, Gary C. (MI), Chairman
Carper, Thomas R. (DE)
Hassan, Margaret Wood (NH)
Sinema, Kyrsten (AZ)
Rosen, Jacky (NV)
Ossoff, Jon (GA)
Blumenthal, Richard (CT)
Butler, Laphonza R. (CA) |
Paul, Rand (KY), Ranking Member
Johnson, Ron (WI)
Lankford, James (OK)
Romney, Mitt (UT)
Scott, Rick (FL)
Hawley, Josh (MO)
Marshall, Roger (KS) |
On time delivery of First Class mail by the USPS is much worse now than it was a year ago.
All data are from the USPS performance dashboard for the week of 4/20 to 4/26/2024, for first class mail.
In February, a <s>USPS General Registrar</s> Virginia elections official, Keith Balmer, told the people of Richmond that
“I understand that these issues extend beyond mere inconvenience; they represent a fundamental threat to our democracy,” Balmer said in a blog post on Feb. 26.
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And in March some voters around Atlanta never received their absentee ballots
11Alive heard from voters across metro Atlanta who expressed similar frustrations over absentee ballots that did not arrive in a timely fashion or at all. Many of them blamed the new USPS facility in Palmetto
www.11alive.com/...
The regional data shows continued substantial drops across the country.