Resisting a rigged election system

According to various sources, Louis DeJoy and his wife have between $ 10 million to $ 70 million invested in companies that compete with the U. S. Postal Service — a clear conflict of interest. They have donated $ 2.5 million to the Trump campaign and the Republican Party since 2016. They will financially benefit if the USPS ceases to exist.

Mr. DeJoy has already removed post office administrators, mailboxes and mail- sorting machines while ending overtime for delivery persons — all designed to slow the deposit and delivery of mail so that votes by mail can be suppressed and not counted on time. He is now refusing to return mailboxes and mail- sorting machines. He can also remove more of those items right before the election leaving no time to reverse that decision.

If Mr. DeJoy does not resign or sell his investments, he should be removed from office based upon his obvious conflict of interest.

We must resist the rigging of this election. Encourage your postal workers to save their jobs by working overtime with or without overtime pay to ensure that all mail- in ballots are counted on time. Recruit younger voters to volunteer to work the polling sites. If necessary, vote at those polling sites, even if you have to stand in line for hours. Buy $ 100 worth of stamps for your Christmas cards now. If 10 million Democrats spend $ 100 now, that would add $ 1 billion to the USPS budget, something the Senate will never allow.

And if you are a postal worker, vote for Democrats and do everything you can to remove the politicians who would destroy our postal system. We are not a plutocracy with a dictator and oligarchs. We are and must remain as the modern world’s first and greatest democracy.

GEORGE PETTRONE

Edgewood