VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) — The 2020 presidential election is unprecedented. A record number of Americans are voting from home because of COVID-19. That means the United States Postal Service has been tasked with handling more election mail than ever before. With 11 days remaining until Election Day, Visalia Postmaster Jeremy Groff wants voters to know […]
American patriot Benjamin Franklin, the nation’s first postmaster general, is producing seismic movement in Philadelphia’s Christ Church Burial Ground. Even 230 years after his death, Franklin’s legacy instills our postal system with integrity, innovation and dedication to serving the communication, information and commercial needs of all Americans. However, the degree to which Franklin’s creation has […]
Republican Party files complaint over election process TUCSON – The Republican Party says that due to how the mail-in ballots were printed, with the voter’s party registration displayed on the envelope, they believe it could have affected voter’s ability to have their voice heard. A complaint was filed to the Department of Justice before the […]
DENVER — Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said Friday that 828 replacement ballots that were not delivered to voters in Denver and Arapahoe counties until Election Day. Replacement ballots are typically requested by the voter. “[The United States Postal Service] did not notify our office of this issue, even though they were aware of […]
FAIRFAX, Va. –Some college students who want to vote in elections apparently don’t mail back their absentee ballots because they don’t know where to buy stamps. Officials in Fairfax County, Virginia, conducted a focus group with their college interns over the summer. Many participants said their friends who didn’t send back their absentee ballots thought […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is requiring counties to provide free postage for vote-by-mail ballots statewide. Gov. Jerry Brown announced Wednesday that he signed the bill requiring that return ballot envelopes have prepaid postage. Currently, 10 of the state’s 58 counties plan to provide postage ballots for the November election. Counties would bear the cost […]
DENVER, Colorado Oct. 27, 2015 – Secretary of State Wayne Williams recommends voters who have not yet returned their ballots for the Nov. 3 election either drop off their ballots with their county clerks or use a designated county drop-off location. Several county clerks have expressed concern that the U.S. Postal Service did not deliver their ballots in […]
Durango, CO – Patrick O’Leary expected to vote in the Nov. 4 election. But when six ballots arrived at his East Fifth Avenue apartment in the past week, the Durango resident was puzzled.
It sounds like the U.S. Postal Service has some undemocratic sorting equipment. Or maybe the machinery is just old. Either way, more than 8,000 San Francisco ballot packages were damaged by postal equipment as they were being processed for mailing, the city’s Department of Elections said Friday. So far, the postal service has returned 5,456 damaged […]
Effective October 7, 2013, the Postal Service™ will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®) 703.8 to require that the balloting materials for all types of ballots, whether disseminated in hardcopy or electronically, must indicate in a prominent location the proper amount of First-Class Mail® postage that must be […]