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									<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On December 17 2021, LDF and Public Citizen announced a <strong><a href="https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/170-Stipulation-and-attached-sett-agmt.pdf">settlement</a> </strong>in the historic case NAACP v. United States Postal Service. <span style="color: #0f1419;">Filed in August 2020, it challenged USPS delivery delays and inadequate measures to ensure timely delivery of mail-in ballots for the November 2020 election. Our suit resulted in USPS implementing court-ordered &#8220;extraordinary measures&#8221; for the timely delivery of ballots. Today’s settlement ensures that it will undertake similar efforts to prioritize the delivery of ballots in future national elections.</span></span></p>								</div>
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	<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 500">The United States Postal Service (USPS) handles half the world’s mail, keeping families and friends connected. It serves as the backbone for small business owners to quickly deliver their products to customers, and it provides medical supplies to countless Americans.</span></li>
	<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 500">The USPS is on the frontlines. All throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, postal workers have shown how essential they are by continuing to provide a critical public service despite risks to their own lives. Well over a thousand postal workers have contracted COVID-19 due to a lack of PPE.</span></li>
	<li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 500">The Postal Service is also an economic engine. USPS employees make up one quarter of the federal workforce – 40% of whom are people of color.</span></li>
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									<h3>December 2021</h3>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On December 17 LDF and Public Citizen announced a <strong><a href="https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/170-Stipulation-and-attached-sett-agmt.pdf">settlement</a> </strong>in the historic case NAACP v. United States Postal Service. <span style="color: #0f1419;">Filed in August 2020, it challenged USPS delivery delays and inadequate measures to ensure timely delivery of mail-in ballots for the November 2020 election. Our suit resulted in USPS implementing court-ordered &#8220;extraordinary measures&#8221; for the timely delivery of ballots. Today’s settlement ensures that it will undertake similar efforts to prioritize the delivery of ballots in future national elections.</span></span></p>								</div>
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									<h3><span style="font-size: 14pt;">July 2020</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Shortly after Louis DeJoy was appointed Postmaster General, USPS imposed changes in its mail delivery policies without going through the procedures required by federal law designed to ensure an opportunity for accountability and public comment. These changes led to widespread delays in mail delivery across much of the nation at the very moment when timely mail delivery mattered most: a global pandemic where people rely on the mail for everything from prescription drugs to voting (<strong><a href="https://naacpldf.org/wp-content/uploads/Earl-Graham-declaration-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">client testimony 1</a></strong>; <strong>client testimony 2</strong>).</span></p>								</div>
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									<h3>August 2020</h3>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Led by Director of Litigation <strong><a href="https://naacpldf.org/about-us/staff/samuel-spital/">Sam Spital</a></strong>, LDF partnered with Public Citizen <strong><a href="https://naacpldf.org/wp-content/uploads/1-Complaint.pdf">filed suit</a></strong> on behalf of the NAACP – a separate organization from LDF – to reverse the policies that led to such widespread delays, and to ensure that ballots would be delivered in a timely manner. Read the complaint <strong><a href="https://naacpldf.org/wp-content/uploads/1-Complaint.pdf">here</a></strong>.</span></p>								</div>
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									<h3>October/November 2020</h3>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Court granted a <strong><a href="https://naacpldf.org/wp-content/uploads/8-1-Memo-in-Support.pdf">preliminary injunction</a></strong> in our favor in October, and it and other courts entered similar injunctions in several other cases, including cases filed by states. The USPS did not immediately comply, however, and substantial mail delays have persisted. As a result, we filed a motion to enforce the Court’s prior injunction in <b>late October</b>. This has led to enforcement proceedings where the Court has entered orders requiring USPS to implement measures to ensure that ballots are delivered in a timely manner, and to provide the court with data about the status of its efforts.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">For example, shortly <b>before Election Day</b>, the <strong><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/02/us-judge-orders-usps-to-reinforce-extraordinary-measures-ballot-delivery-policy.html">Court ordered USPS</a></strong> to use the Express Mail network to expedite ballots out of local service area, and to clear and process all ballots with a local destination on the same day or no later than the next morning.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On <b>November 4</b>, the day mail-in ballots were due to elections offices in Texas, the Court ordered USPS to take additional steps to ensure ballots sent on Election Day or earlier were not left behind in Texas facilities. In response, USPS identified and <strong><a href="https://www.kxan.com/news/your-local-election-hq/federal-judge-orders-more-sweeps-for-mail-in-ballots-at-texas-usps-processing-facilities/">delivered 815 ballots</a></strong> in the state.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Since <b>November 4</b>, we have focused on delivery of ballots in states that have upcoming deadlines for receiving ballots postmarked by Election Day, such as North Carolina and Pennsylvania. The Court has required twice daily sweeps for ballots in mail processing facilities in those states, with reports to be filed in the court documenting the results.</span></p>								</div>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">It is important to note what we learned from USPS on <b>November 5</b> as it relates to the more than 100,000 ballots delivered to elections officials the previous day. The vast majority of those ballots were delivered in a timely manner, and in states where they can still be counted because of extended receipt deadlines.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On <b>November 6</b>, the Court ordered plant and district managers jointly overseeing processing facilities in Alaska, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Mississippi, North Dakota, Ohio, and West Virginia to coordinate with all local Boards of Elections to deliver all ballots before the relevant extended state ballot receipt deadline.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">Like poll workers and vote counters, the rank and file postal workers have gone all out throughout this process to ensure the functioning of our democracy. The USPS staff have taken the Court’s orders and this litigation seriously. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.01em;">They are not responsible for ordering the changes that created these delays. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.17px;">Rather, the directives that have caused the delays and other problems that LDF is challenging were made by USPS leadership.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">LDF is <strong><a href="https://naacpldf.org/press-release/ldf-issues-statement-on-usps-court-ordered-actions-to-delivery-ballots-on-time/">fighting for the delivery of every ballot</a></strong>. People who voted by mail – to protect themselves from COVID-19 exposure in particular – deserve to know their ballot was delivered. It is a public trust that must not be betrayed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">LDF has participated in daily court hearings on this matter leading up to, during, and following Election Day, and is continuing to litigate this case at present.</span></p>								</div>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On December 23, LDF <strong><a href="https://naacpldf.org/wp-content/uploads/04518238254.pdf" data-uw-styling-context="true">filed an agreement</a></strong> with the Court requiring the USPS to implement key measures that will prioritize and expedite the delivery of ballots for the January 5, 2021, Georgia Runoff Election. Among a variety of measures, the agreement requires the USPS to continue to use Express Mail to deliver ballots in certain circumstances and conduct daily sweeps of processing facilities in the week before the election to ensure no ballots are left behind.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">LDF filed an <strong><a href="https://naacpldf.org/wp-content/uploads/04518371061.pdf">amended complaint</a></strong> in the case centered on the need to ensure that procedures are implemented to guarantee that ballots are delivered promptly and reliably in future elections. </span></p>								</div>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On December 17 LDF and Public Citizen announced a <strong><a href="https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/170-Stipulation-and-attached-sett-agmt.pdf">settlement</a> </strong>in the historic case NAACP v. United States Postal Service. <span style="color: #0f1419;">Filed in August 2020, it challenged USPS delivery delays and inadequate measures to ensure timely delivery of mail-in ballots for the November 2020 election. Our suit resulted in USPS implementing court-ordered &#8220;extraordinary measures&#8221; for the timely delivery of ballots. Today’s settlement ensures that it will undertake similar efforts to prioritize the delivery of ballots in future national elections.</span></span></p>								</div>
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