Thread by @levinecarrie

New FOIA docs to share! I just finished going through more than 700 pages of docs from @usps on election mail. Unfortunately, a lot of them looked like this: 1/

But there are interesting fragments to be gleaned! By August, A LOT of people at USPS (including the general counsel and outside consultants from Weber Shandwick) were on the "strike team" responding to questions from press and Congress on vote by mail. 2/
beta.documentcloud.org/documents/2046…

Also, USPS GC Thomas Marshall had sent a series of letters to states saying their laws didn't appear to comply with delivery standards and timetables. 3/

Background: washingtonpost.com/local/md-polit…

The USPS documents obtained by @publicintegrity include an August letter from Florida SOS Laurel Lee, pushing back on that. "...our laws are in fact, compatible,
with your standards and recommended timeframesm" she writes. 4/ beta.documentcloud.org/documents/2046…

The docs also give some more insight into the USPS consultants from Weber Shandwick. I previously reported the involvement of a former Trump administration U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, Michelle Giuda, based on an earlier FOIA:

https://twitter.com/levinecarrie/status/1306650451769688065?s=20

One note: I did appeal many of the redactions. In some cases, as with the letter from the Florida secretary of state, I won. In other cases, as you can see, I didn't. #foia

Oh, and I continue to be amused by how no one, not even the general counsel of @usps, realizes that in NC, the secretary of state is not in charge of elections. So his letter about whether the state's laws comply with delivery standards had to be forwarded on to @NCSBE

Here's the link for that email: beta.documentcloud.org/documents/2046…