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On the 3rd (local time), as the US presidential elections were being counted, the Federal Post Office (USPS) practically “ rejected ” the court order to mail ballots from top competitors with delays in the elections as soon as possible.
The court order was directed at post offices in the dominant democratic regions in Gyeonghap province.
Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of the USPS said in a document filed with the court that they were unable to process the ballots according to the timetable suggested by the courts, given the time constraints required by the court order and the fact that USPS work is done across the country. (WP) reported on day 3 (local time).
However, the USPS told the court: “We will process it as quickly as possible to comply with the order as much as possible without interfering with the core business that must take place on the day of the presidential election.”
According to the USPS, the number of ballots that were not sent to local electoral authorities in the morning of the day was not identified, resulting in 3,0,523 ballots.
The WP noted that “the federal post office ignored the court’s order to mail the ballot as soon as no more than 300,000 ballots were recovered.”
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Previously, the federal court verified all mail-in ballots at the mail processing facility by 3 p.m. the same day, based on Eastern Standard Time (EST), and immediately mailed them to each state. and at 4:30 pm He ordered to prove that it was not.
The decision was made in accordance with lawsuits brought by Latino voting rights groups and community groups.
Mail-in ballots in 15 regions, including central Pennsylvania, southern Florida, Arizona and Wisconsin, as well as northern New England, Colorado and Alabama, were the subject of the order.
The state of Pennsylvania has said that votes that arrive in the mail three days after the presidential election will also be reflected in the count, but many other states have said they will only accept votes that arrive in the mail on the day of the presidential election.
After 4 pm according to EST, foreign media reported that “the USPS did not meet the deadline for processing the ballots ordered by the court.”
WP analyzed that the on-time processing rate for USPS ballots was 94.7% on the 24th of last month, but fell to 89.6% the day before the election. “The processing fee is decreasing as presidential election day approaches.”
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