Grand Rapids, Michigan, has lost a box of absentee vote, City Clerk Joel Hondorp told The Federalist. The town is looking into the vote, but it is not yet certain where the votes went.
” Electors were calling, saying,’ Hey, we did n’t get our vote,'” Hondorp said. A basket of ballots were scheduled to be delivered to the address. We’re trying to figure out where the connect is, but it appears to have reached the post office.
A box holds tight to 300 vote, according to Hondorp. His company and the US Postal Service are collaborating to determine the time when the ballot box disappeared.  ,
” We do poll monitoring with our mail provider, and we can kind of show where a holder gets scanned into the system,” Hondorp said. ” We’re investigating right now”.
Hondorp claimed that his company has provided 100 substitute ballots to electorates who did not receive them. He claimed that his office may” spoil” one of the vote so that only one vote counts per voter if someone submits duplicate vote.
” If for some reason this tray shows up somewhere, and then they get another ballot in the mail, we know which ballot to count so they do n’t return two”, Hondorp said. We are aware that we only keep one ballot if it is ever returned.
A few vote occasionally get lost in the mail, according to Hondorp, but the majority of the time this many are lost. ” It does n’t seem to be a whole tray in the past. We might have some people or twos”, he said.  ,
Hondorp advised residents of Grand Rapids to call his office if they should have gotten an absent poll but did not. Hondorp’s team immediately identified the issue as this, which they attributed to the west portion of the city.
” Now we have to find out what we’re going to do, and what’s the next step for everyone else who might not be aware that they have a problem,” Hondorp said.  ,
As The Federalist recently reported, the USPS Office of Inspector General discovered in July that some establishments had not adhered to the lawful vote mail practices. The audit found that “without complete compliance, application, and a clear knowledge of the Election and Political Mail policies and procedures, there is a chance of improper handling, sudden processing, and late supply of Election and Political Mail”.
Areas with the new technique have experienced” some dramatic decreases in company,” according to the USPS’ announcement to rebuild mail delivery in 2021.
The Federalist contacted the USPS, but it was unable to post a reply.
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The team contributor for election integrity is Logan Washburn. He graduated from Hillsdale College, served as Christopher Rufo’s journal helper, and has bylines in The Wall Street Journal, The Tennessean, and The Daily Caller. Logan was born and raised in Central Oregon, but presently resides in remote Michigan.