SCOOP: Biden set to nominate three Democrats to USPS board of governors NAMES:

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SCOOP: Biden set to nominate three Democrats to USPS board of governors
NAMES:
- Ron Stroman, former deputy postmaster general
- Amber McReynolds, CEO of Vote at Home Institute
- Anton Hajjar, former APWU general counsel

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President Biden will nominate a former U.S. Postal Service executive, a leading voting-rights advocate and a former postal union leader to the mail service’s governing board, according to three people briefed on the nominees, a move that will reshape the agency’s leadership and increase pressure on the embattled postmaster general.

Biden will nominate Ron Stroman, the Postal Service’s recently retired deputy postmaster general; Amber McReynolds, the chief executive of National Vote at Home Institute; and Anton Hajjar, the former general counsel of the American Postal Workers Union, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal policy.

If confirmed, the nominees would give Democrats a majority on the nine-member board of governors, with potentially enough votes to oust DeJoy, who testified Wednesday before a House panel that his new strategic plan for the mail service included slowing deliveries.

The composition of the postal board elicited sharp remarks before and during Wednesday’s hearing. Several lawmakers have decried the lack of diversity among the governors.

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[Ocelot II]

2. Excellent!

[Blue Owl]

3. Hit the road, Joystick

If there is any justice, you'll be hitting the klink with your pal Clownstick von Bodybags

[jpak]

4. Show the muthafuka the door Joe

This is a BFD

Yup

[msfiddlestix]

5. Which Body Confirms these appointments? Senate or the House?

[Lochloosa]

6. All nominees are confirmed by the Senate.

[msfiddlestix]

7. oh drat. n/t

[rurallib]

8. Crap - Are Manchin and Sinema on board

You know that Repugs will do anything to keep DeJoy in the saddle destroying the USPS.

For that matter I trust Biden picked members that want to dump Dejoy.

[Sur Zobra]

9. I was listening to the Thom

Hartmann show earlier and he said that 2 Democrats currently on the board were appointed by Trumpass and are fake Democrats

[OnDoutside]

10. Amber McReynolds, CEO of Vote at Home Institute .... No messing about with this appointment !

https://voteathome.org/staff/amber-mcreynolds/



Amber McReynolds
Chief Executive Officer

Amber McReynolds is one of the country’s leading experts on election administration and policy, and co-author of the book “When Women Vote”. Amber is the CEO for the National Vote At Home Institute and Coalition and is the former Director of Elections for Denver, Colorado. During her time there, she transformed the elections division into a national and international award-winning office.

She has proven that designing pro-voter policies, voter-centric processes, and implementing technical innovations will improve representation for all voters.

https://thefulcrum.us/vote-by-mail-2650741186

Reform in 2021: Vote at Home Institute sees state and federal opportunities
Our StaffFeb. 24
This is the sixth installment in our ongoing Q&A series on reform in 2021.

As Democrats take power in Washington, if only tenuously, many democracy reform groups see a potential path toward making the American political system work better. In this installment, Amber McReynolds, CEO of the National Vote at Home Institute, answers our questions about 2020 accomplishments and plans for the year ahead. Her organization is a leading proponent of voting of mail and had been advocated such systems prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. McReynolds' responses have been edited for clarity and length.

First, let's briefly recap 2020. What was your biggest triumph last year?
First and foremost, we really became a go-to resource for election officials and policymakers alike. Basically doubling the number of states and jurisdictions, including Washington, D.C., that mailed a ballot to every elector in the general election was a massive deal. The broad expansion and adoption of vote-at-home options for all voters across the country definitely stands out as the biggest triumph, because more people had the opportunity to vote by mail this year. And then they used it. It was the most widely used method of voting. So we accomplished a very big goal in the middle of a pandemic.

And your biggest setback?
One of the biggest challenges is the disinformation and deliberate attack on this method of voting and the "big lie." I feel like all year it was one thing after another. It's almost like they were throwing things at the wall to see what stuck, and voting by mail was part of that. There's just an overall impact that is detrimental to voters and their confidence in the election, and it certainly enticed many of the very destructive things that happened in 2020 and even in 2021, especially on Jan. 6. So while voting by mail had a big triumph, I would say the biggest challenge is the disinformation and being part of this big lie.

What is one learning experience you took from 2020?
Running a national nonprofit and having team members in lots of different states has been a learning experience. As a leader, it's been hard to adjust the model and the platform and to hire people that you've never in person met. It's a weird dynamic. Then the other aspect is more personal. I'm a single mom with two small kids, and when the pandemic started and they were home, I was trying to balance them being on Zoom calls for school and helping them, while working 18-hour days. The other side of the personal piece is the threats that started to culminate online. I had death threats. I had to hire security guards outside my house. After the election, I was like, "OK, we're almost done." Then everything started with the big lie, which our vote by mail was very much wrapped into, and I was personally being attacked. It was a very stressful situation.

How will Democratic control of the federal government change the ways you work toward your goals?
With HR 1, we provided a lot of feedback when it was first filed two years ago, and now it includes some of the improvements we have suggested, so we're going to continue working on that. But there needs to be bipartisan support. I truly believe that election policy and legislation is better when there is bipartisan support, especially at the federal level, like with the National Voter Registration Act and the Help America Vote Act. So we're really going to think strategically about the baseline reforms where there could be bipartisan agreement. We're going to try to fill the leadership void in terms of recommendations, and we will work with anyone who wants to work on voter-centric and pro-voter policies.