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To: David P. Abney & Carol Tomé (UPS), Frederick W. Smith (FedEx), John Pearson (DHL)
UPS, FedEx and DHL Can Expand Mail-in-Voting
Donald Trump is asserting, with no evidence, that mail-in-voting is rife with fraud. In an attempt to make this a self-fulling prophecy, Trump is defunding and understaffing the US Postal Service to ensure mail-in-balloting is disrupted. We need leaders in our logistics community - UPS, FedEx and DHL - to lend their capacity to ensure mail-in-voting can occur without disruption. We need these companies to supplement the USPS to 1) get ballots to American people and 2) enable votes to make it back to the state election board.
Why is this important?
Quite simply, we have a president who is trying to rig an election with a false narrative around mail-in-voting and defunding of the infrastructure needed for it. With COVID expanding uncontrolled throughout the United States, poll workers - the majority are over 60 and high-risk for COVID - will not be available to staff in-person voting. We risk terrible lines at polling locations, not to mention, further spread of the virus. Without mail-in-voting and the related logistics necessary to get ballots to & from voters, we simply will not be able to have free-and-fair elections in November. The voice of the people must be heard. Our democracy depends on it.