According to the United States Postal Service ( USPS), they anticipate that their” Election Mail performance in 2024 will be comparable to or better than that of 2020.” When an election will be decided on the margins, many voters in the country are reporting that they never received the mail-in ballots they requested, that is n’t enough.
One voter in Scarborough, Maine, informed WGME that she voted in person on Monday because the mail-in ballot she had requested did n’t arrive. Glenn Grant, a fellow Scarborough vote, apparently wanted to voting by mail, shares a similar story.
” But the poll has not come, which says everything about our message service”, Grant told WGME.
Meanwhile USPS “failed to deliver an unknown number of ballots in Coos County, Oregon, and it did n’t deliver up to 300 ballots in Whitman County, Washington”, The Associated Press reported, citing election officials. According to The AP, Coos County Clerk Julie Brecke claimed that her company has received everyday calling as a result of a mistake made by USPS.
However Whitman County said that a third-party merchant delivered almost 24, 000 vote to the article office on Oct. 16 where they were all marked. But almost 300 votes are still missing.
” I do n’t know where they went after that”, Whitman County Auditor Sandy Jamison said, according to The Associated Press.
The USPS claimed in Bend, Oregon, that it has finally made up its message sales after some people reported never receiving their Nov. 5 election vote, according to Central Oregon Daily News. In addition, Deschutes County Clerk Steve Dennison recently expressed concern that returning an absent poll via email was possible.
” I just ca n’t imagine a scenario, at least for myself, where I as a voter would take that ballot and put it into a mailbox, rather than putting it into a drop box”, Dennison said, according to OPB. The more you run the risk that it might not count the longer you wait until Election Day.
Bend County Republican Commissioner Patti Adair told The Federalist:” I wish we voted in people with ID, but for individuals voting by email, lags in the process creates fear”.
There was also a new event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where an entire box of absentee ballots were lost.
” Voters were calling, saying,’ Hey, we did n’t receive our ballots”, City Clerk Joel Hondorp told The Federalist. A basket of votes had been scheduled to be delivered to the address. We’re trying to figure out where the disengage is, but it appears to have reached the post office.
Hondorp says a box holds roughly 300 vote. He claimed that his company and USPS were collaborating to look into the tray’s missing. 100 voters who did n’t receive their requested absentee ballot received replacement ballots.
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However, USPS has problems beyond the basic election.
Lots of voters in Utah claimed their ballots were not counted during the June main because USPS failed to stamp them by the required date. On June 23, the day before citizens are required to have their votes postmarked in order to be counted, one vote, Camille Topham, claimed she and her family dropped their votes into a blog field. However, she claimed that she was later informed that her vote would n’t count because it did n’t meet the required postmark and that she was one hundred other Utah voters. The stamp was missing according to USPS running.
In a July assessment of the USPS Office of the Inspector General‘s primary elections, it was discovered that “opportunities exist for the Postal Service for the Postal Service for the 2024 public election” that services across the country failed to adhere to Election Mail techniques. According to USPS’s guidance on election-related mail, “over half of the delivery models and processing facilities …visited were not appropriately” found to be one issue.
” 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 later supply of Election and Political Mail”, the audit found.
Additionally, according to the inspection, “operational risks” had “delay the processing and delivery of Election Mail in a timely manner.”
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Brianna Lyman is a journalist for The Federalist on votes. With a diploma in International Political Economy, Brianna received her diploma from Fordham University. Her job has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Observe Brianna on X: @briannalyman2
