USPS Fails To Comply With Judge’s Ballot-Sweeping Order
US District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington, Monday considered the matter of postal employees detailing ‘hundreds’ of voted ballots sitting in post offices, not being delivered. He then ordered ‘a sweep of postal facilities’ where undelivered ballots had been reported ...to be carried out between noon and 3 pm and those ballots given priority delivery to be counted in crucial swing states.
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SURPRISE! Today in Judge Sullivan's court, attorneys for USPS claimed ‘Defendants were unable to accelerate the daily review process to run from 12:30pm to 3:00pm without significantly disrupting preexisting activities on the day of the Election, something which Defendants did not understand the Court to invite or require,... ’ (emphasis provided)
This ‘Defense’, known as ‘my dog ate my homework’ is not sitting well with the Judge, renowned for having a short fuse with dickhead attorneys or their obstreperous* clients. It remains to be seen whether those ballots in critical swing states will be rounded up, and if delivered, even counted. What else is undetermined ...besides the outcome of a US presidential election??? Is this: the remedy Judge Sullivan may fashion to redress the court’s order which was subject of the malicious dog bite.
From the Political Bulletin,
USPS Fails To Comply With Judge’s Ballot-Sweeping Order Bloomberg
reports that the US Postal Service “said it was unable to comply with a federal judge’s order to conduct a sweep of its facilities in crucial swing states for undelivered mail-in ballots by 3pm on Election Day on the East Coast. ‘Defendants were unable to accelerate the daily review process to run from 12:30pm to 3:00pm without significantly disrupting preexisting activities on the day of the Election, something which Defendants did not understand the Court to invite or require,’ the postal service said in a submission to US District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington, whose order applied to facilities in Michigan, Pennsylvania and other swing states.” The Washington Post reports the agency “disclosed Tuesday morning that 300,523 ballots nationwide had gotten incoming scans at postal processing plants but not exit scans, leaving voting rights advocates worried that hundreds of thousands of votes could be trapped in the mail system on the eve of the election.”
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“Whoever runs that place, as well as the person pulling the strings, needs to do jail time!” a Daily Kos blogger stated a second before posting.
*2) obstreperous: to act like a dickhead, a legal term of art used to describe contemptuous behavior worthy of imprisonment.