'Haul Louis DeJoy in front of a grand jury': Outrage after USPS misses court-ordered Election Day deadline
Raw StoryElection experts and other critics of voter suppression responded with alarm Tuesday after the United States Postal Service failed to meet a court-ordered afternoon deadline to conduct sweeps at mail processing facilities to "ensure that no ballots have been held up and that any identified ballots are immediately sent out for delivery." In response to Kruzel's long tweet thread, Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. took aim at the postmaster general, tweeting: "Haul Louis DeJoy in front of a criminal grand jury." For months, voting rights advocates have slammed DeJoy—a GOP megadonor who took over the Postal Service earlier this year—for forcing mail operations changes that critics charge were intended in part to sabotage the November election. Kruzel shared a statement from USPS claiming it was not possible to comply with the court order because of the number of inspectors at facilities: According to Bloomberg, the Postal Service told the judge that "defendants were unable to accelerate the daily review process to run from 12:30 pm to 3:00 pm without significantly disrupting preexisting activities on the day of the election, something which defendants did not understand the court to invite or require."
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