Editorial: DeJoy is tool in Trump's effort to disrupt the election

But to President Donald Trump, DeJoy is just another convenient bit-player in his dangerous and unrelenting effort to disrupt the 2020 elections.

But the questions over DeJoy’s performance leading the Postal Service and his campaign donation activities are tangential – a mere sideshow -- to something far greater and worrisome.

DeJoy’s bumbling has further highlighted the serious concerns over the service’s ability to handle the expected significant increase in mail-in voting due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It has played into Trump’s scheme to manufacture reasons to doubt our election’s legitimacy.

So far in North Carolina, it appears that request for mail-in ballots are both being handled expeditiously by local Elections Boards and mail service has been delivering requested ballots in a timely manner.

Regardless, President Trump is determined to concoct an election crisis and plant distrust.

He’s sought to raise doubts about the legitimacy of counting votes cast whether those delivered by mail or cast in person at early voting sites. Any votes NOT counted immediately after polls closed, Trump is seeking to suggest, are questionable and not legitimate.

Donald Trump’s efforts are, frankly, un-American. He should be working to encourage people to vote, working to expedite their ability to cast ballots and providing the kind of honesty and transparency that sustains confidence in a free and fair election system that has been a model for the world.

Donald Trump may win the election. Perhaps it will be Joe Biden. That decision will be determined by voters -- not by Trump’s disruptive tactics to steal it.