The head of the US Postal Service has vowed the agency is “fully capable and committed” to handling the nation’s mail-in votes for November’s election. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told lawmakers that postal votes will continue to be prioritised and that recent policy changes were not made in attempt to influence the 2020 election.

Democrats say new delivery policies could lead to issues with postal votes. The row quickly became a top campaign issue in the past two weeks. Mr DeJoy, a top Republican donor and former logistics executive appointed to lead the agency in May, told a senate panel on Friday that the delivery changes – which have drastically slowed deliveries – were based on a “data-driven” review of mail volume. He addressed the Republican-led Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee amid a public furore to the changes, and amid concerns that they were made to help re-elect US President Donald Trump.(NU)…[+]