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Mail-in ballots can be cast by someone other than the voter, voter ID measures are harder to ensure, and the secret ballot is more easily compromised by professional ballot traffickers who “help” the voter fill in their ballot. The GOP's silence indicates that it is complicit in the scheme.

The law-enforcement arm of the US Postal Service has been covertly tracking Americans' social media posts with a focus on conservatives. It monitors social-media sites to find "inflammatory" postings and then shares that information with government agencies.

A whistleblower says that Robert Wisenbach, the Erie Postmaster, advised another postal worker to backdate ballots on November 4th to appear as though they were received on November 3rd, which was Elections Day, so that the ballots could be added to the vote count.

Stop Voter Suppression from the Union of Concerned Scientists

As we warned earlier in the year, the US Postal Service is failing due to a long term effort to weaken it plus the confluence of the COVID-19 pandemic, recession and intentional efforts by the Trump administration to suppress the vote.

The company is forecast to hit sales of $258.2 billion by the end of 2018, a roughly 30% increase from the previous year. Many people, including President Trump, object to Amazon's advantages from tax loopholes, its special deal with the US Postal Service and hiring foreign workers instead of Americans to save money on labor. [...]

The US Postal Service, under attack from a manufactured crisis designed to force its privatization, needs a new source of funding to survive. Postal banking could fill that need.
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The US Postal Service, under attack from a manufactured crisis designed to force its privatization, needs a new source of funding to survive. Postal banking could fill that need. The US banking establishment has been at war with the post office since at least 1910, when the Postal Savings Bank Act established a public savings […]

Investigative reporter Greg Palast is usually pretty good at peering behind the rhetoric and seeing what is really going on. But in tearing into Senator Elizabeth Warren’s support of postal financial services, he has done a serious disservice to the underdogs – both the underbanked and the US Postal Service itself.

Peter B. Collins Presents Investigative Reporter Peter Byrne