The US Postal Service must hold meetings with senior management to remind them that they must undertake “extraordinary measures” to ensure that ballots must be delivered to election offices with expediency, a federal judge ruled Sunday, according to Reuters.
Judge Emmet Sullivan of the US District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the USPS to use its Priority Mail service to make sure ballots reach their destination without delay. Sullivan previously ordered the USPS and Postmaster Louis DeJoy to rescind changes designed to slow delivery, reinstating standards that were in place in July, before DeJoy took office.
The order demands that the USPS “delivers every ballot possible by the cutoff time on Election Day.” Sullivan order the USPS to hold the meetings to stress to managers that “all ballots with a local destination must be cleared and processed on the same day or no later than the next morning for delivery to local offices, from now through at least November 7.”