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Postal Service Union Launches ad Campaign Promoting Mail Voting as Trump Assails the Method
The 30-second spot features farmers and flight attendants and says mail voting is safe, efficient and successful, the union said.
- On Tuesday, the 200,000-member American Postal Workers Union launched a television advertisement campaign in Ohio promoting mail-in voting as safe, efficient, and successful.
- President Donald Trump signed an executive order two weeks earlier seeking to bar postal workers from delivering absentee ballots to unverified voters, while publicly bashing mail voting as fraudulent.
- American Postal Workers Union President Jonathan Smith stated the union's primary role is moving mail, not determining voter eligibility, emphasizing workers should not become politicized.
- The National Rural Letter Carriers Association warned the Postal Service is "not equipped or authorized to decide who is or is not entitled to vote," while Democrats filed lawsuits challenging the order.
- A 2025 Brookings Institution report found mail fraud accounts for only four cases out of every 10 million ballots cast, as the union plans to expand its campaign beyond Ohio to other states.
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Postal Service union launches ad campaign promoting mail voting as Trump assails the method
The American Postal Workers Union is launching a national TV ad campaign promoting voting by mail. This comes as President Donald Trump has raised skepticism about mail-in ballots.
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