Postal Service Board Creates Panel to Oversee Mail-In Voting
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The governing board of the U.S. Postal Service, under intense scrutiny over its ability to handle a surge of mail-in voting in the November elections, is creating a panel to oversee the process.
The board acted amid a furor raised by Democrats about impact on voting of cutbacks at the agency and President Donald Trump’s repeated and unsubstantiated assertions that voting by mail would taint or delay results of the presidential election.