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THOU SHALT NOT RELY ON THE POST OFFICE FOR BALLOT FRAUD HELP
(This means the Republican candidate might have a FAIR chance to win.)

Va. Dems file lawsuit against U.S. Postal Service over delivery delay of absentee ballots

The Democratic Party of Virginia has filed a lawsuit alleging that local branches of the U.S. Postal Service failed to process and deliver election-related material ahead of the gubernatorial election between Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin.

The lawsuit, filed Friday, contends that more than 300,000 Virginians are likely to attempt to cast their ballots by mail this cycle, but USPS did not deliver the requested ballots promptly and therefore is threatening to disenfranchise thousands of Virginia voters.

“Thousands of absentee ballots currently sit at postal facilities throughout the Commonwealth, unprocessed for weeks on end,” the lawsuit states.

The suit was filed on behalf of the state party by the [notorious] Elias Law Group, a firm headed by longtime Democratic elections attorney Marc Elias, who was involved in 32 cases against 19 states over their election laws when he represented Democratic candidates during the 2020 presidential cycle.

Most of those legal fights pertained to voting by mail.

The current legal action focuses on three counties in Virginia — Albemarle, Portsmouth and James City — where Democrats say the delay is “significant” and particularly “egregious.”

In those counties, the suit claims that “thousands of ballots delivered to postal facilities weeks ago are still outstanding and, weeks later have not yet even been scanned into USPS’s system.”

“Even if these voters eventually do receive their ballots before Election Day, the slowdowns promise that they will not have sufficient time to send them back with assurance that they will arrive in time to be counted,” the lawsuit states.

According to the suit, even if a ballot arrives on time to the appropriate election official, it is still a problem. Democrats argue that if an official cites any issues with the ballot that requires remediation before it is counted, the voter will not have time to correct the problem.

The USPS[, long burdened with affirmative action hires,] defended its delivery protocols and processing of election-related materials.
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