{"id":156547,"date":"2020-08-15T15:55:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T13:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/08\/15\/watchdog-to-investigate-us-postal-service-changes-ahead-of-election-live\/"},"modified":"2020-08-15T15:55:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T13:55:03","slug":"watchdog-to-investigate-us-postal-service-changes-ahead-of-election-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=156547","title":{"rendered":"Watchdog to investigate US Postal Service changes ahead of election \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warnings that changes to USPS could disenfranchise votersFrom Oakland to the White House? The rise of Kamala HarrisFlu and Covid: winter could bring \u2018double-barrel\u2019 outbreak to USSign up to our First Thing newsletter 2.55pm BST My colleague Sam Levine has taken a deeper look at why the United States Postal Service\u2019s part in November\u2019s election has come under scrutiny of late:An unprecedented number of Americans are expected to vote by mail this year because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Over the last few months, states across the US have seen record numbers of Americans request ballots and submit votes by mail in primary and other elections. Mail-in ballots may account for 50% of all of the votes cast this fall, according to an estimate by Michael McDonald, a University of Florida professor who closely tracks voter turnout. That would be a huge increase from 2016 and 2018, when about a quarter of votes came through the mail. Related: Why is the US Postal Service&#8217;s role in November&#8217;s election under scrutiny? 2.38pm BST Donald Trump has spent the early part of today retweeting stories that promote the (unproven) theory that mail-in voting is subject to widescale fraud. The president retweeted allegations of voting fraud in Paterson, New Jersey, along with the comment: \u201cThe Democrats know the 2020 Election will be a fraudulent mess. Will maybe never know who won!\u201dThe Democrats know the 2020 Election will be a fraudulent mess. Will maybe never know who won! https:\/\/t.co\/tEWKJ5NcUj Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2020\/aug\/15\/usps-election-trump-biden-kamala-harris-coronavirus-latest-updates\" target=\"_blank\">Watchdog to investigate US Postal Service changes ahead of election \u2013 live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warnings that changes to USPS could disenfranchise votersFrom Oakland to the White House? The rise of Kamala HarrisFlu and Covid: winter could bring \u2018double-barrel\u2019 outbreak to USSign up to our First Thing newsletter 2.55pm BST My colleague Sam Levine has taken a deeper look at why the United States Postal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}