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本帖最後由 張立德 於 2020-12-12 11:44 編輯
2020年11月4日
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目前情況愈來愈明顯 - 最後結果將會視乎搖擺州份的郵寄選票。而大量郵寄選票有很多仍然還沒計算、甚至還沒寄到。
由於選票必須在某時間內送達才能有效,在今早,聯邦法官Emmet G. Sullivan下令各州的郵局(USPS)在下午4:30前必須確保沒有任何選票仍然待在郵局。
由Trump所任命的美國郵政局長Louis DeJoy聲稱不能遵從法官的命令。
Judge orders Postal Service to sweep for unsent ballots, get them out for delivery
USPS missed the judge's afternoon deadline but says it will complete review later Tuesday
A federal judge ordered the U.S. Postal Service to send inspectors to sweep facilities in a number of swing states for any remaining ballots and send them out for delivery — a ruling that comes ahead of some states' end-of-Tuesday deadlines to receive mail-in ballots.
In an order issued Tuesday in Washington, D.C., District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan said the Postal Service must sweep its facilities in Central Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Detroit, Colorado/Wyoming, Atlanta, Houston, Alabama, Northern New England, Greater South Carolina, South Florida, Lakeland, and Arizona.
With many Americans turning to mail-in voting during the coronavirus pandemic, controversy has swirled around the Trump administration's handling of these ballots. The Trump-appointed postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, initially ordered cost-cutting measures that could have slowed down delivery (he later agreed to drop these). The mail-in voting process has also been the subject of multiple lawsuits around the country. Some states require ballots to be received by Election Day in order to be counted, while others say ballots must only be post marked by the deadline.
“Defendants shall send Postal Service inspectors or their designees, to processing facilities in the following Districts and direct them to sweep the facilities between 12:30 PM EST and 3:00 PM EST to ensure that no ballots have been held up and that any identified ballots are immediately sent out for delivery,” Sullivan wrote.
The judge ordered the Postal Service to certify by 4:30 p.m. on Election Day that it has complied with the order. They must confirm “that sweeps were conducted and that no ballots were left behind,” he wrote.
Department of Justice lawyers said in a filing later Tuesday that the Postal Service did not complete the sweeps by the judge's deadline, but was conducting them later in the day as it had previously planned.
They said a daily review process was scheduled to occur between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.
"Given the time constraints set by this Court’s order, and the fact that Postal Inspectors operate on a nationwide basis, 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," they wrote.
The NAACP asked for an emergency telephone conference in response to that update, but the judge declined, saying that he would let postal officials carry out the sweeps. "Given the timing, the Court is inclined to let this process continue," he said. The judge added that government attorneys would have to discuss their "apparent lack of compliance with the Court's order" at a conference scheduled for Wednesday.
The NAACP and other voting rights groups have sued USPS, charging that mail delays were interfering with Americans’ ability to vote.
Previously, Sullivan ordered the Postal Service to reverse limits that had been imposed on late and extra trips to collect mail. He also ordered daily video conferences between postal representatives and the plaintiffs in the days leading up to the election.
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