Vice News reports:
The United States Postal Service is removing mail sorting machines from facilities around the country without any official explanation or reason given, Motherboard has learned through interviews with postal workers and union officials. In many cases, these are the same machines that would be tasked with sorting ballots, calling into question promises made by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy that the USPS has “ample capacity” to handle the predicted surge in mail-in ballots.
Even to local union officials, USPS has not announced any policy, explained why they are doing this, what will happen to the machines and the workers who use them. Nor has management provided a rationale for dismantling and removing the machines from the facility rather than merely not operating them when they’re not needed. While the consequences of this new policy are mostly unclear for now, it neatly fits with the sudden, opaque, and drastic changes made by DeJoy.
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New: the USPS has been quietly removing mail sorting machines from distribution facilities, including ones that sort ballots. “I’m not sure you’re going to find an answer for why,” a union official told me, “because we haven’t figured that out either.” https://t.co/UYJhg0hGl3
— Aaron W. Gordon (@A_W_Gordon) August 13, 2020
The USPS is shutting down mail sorting machines crucial for processing absentee ballots as the 2020 election looms https://t.co/YbxOZkHE2C
— Business Insider (@businessinsider) August 13, 2020