The top official at the U.S. Postal Service said Thursday that the agency has stopped work on developing a controversial computer system that was central to Donald Trump’s effort to limit mail voting after the Supreme Court rejected his executive order this week.
“There’s an injunction so we’re not doing anything,” postmaster general David Steiner told The Associated Press in an interview.
Steiner, a onetime chief executive of Waste Management, has spent most of the past year atop the postal service navigating political and financial challenges. He’s pressing Congress for changes that would help him resolve what he has called a “liquidity crisis.”
And Trump’s efforts to largely eradicate mail voting turned the postal service into an unlikely arbiter of who is eligible to vote just months before this year’s critical midterm elections, a role Steiner seemingly had little interest in playing. Unlike Trump, who was sharply critical of the Supreme Court decision and ridiculed some of the justices, Steiner offered no assessment of the court’s action.
Except it’s not, people overseas can’t vote in person, and some states only do mail-in ballots. What’s your solution to that one?
I don’t have a solution. I was just saying that those who cannot go vote in person well can not.
The point was that everyone who could, should go vote in person (even if it’s inconvenient, organize a nice of transport or take a free day of work). I think this is true for people living abroad, too, was it’s the only surefire wat to have your vote registered (with the postal service compromised).
But some people can’t, that’s true, but everybody who can , should go in person, even when it’s inconvenient or even painful.