WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) said about 1,700 ballots had been identified in Pennsylvania at processing facilities during two sweeps Thursday and were being delivered to election officials. In a court filing early Friday, USPS said 1,076 ballots, had been found at the USPS Philadelphia Processing and Distribution Center. About 300 were […]
The U.S. Postal Service manager in charge of election mail was given until 9 a.m. Thursday in Washington to calculate and report to a judge the total number of mail-in ballots that weren’t delivered by Nov. 3. “What I want to focus on is what’s in all these postal facilities, and getting all those ballots […]
The U.S. Postal Service said Tuesday evening that it was not complying with a federal judge’s order to sweep mail processing facilities to ensure there is enough time to get any misplaced ballots to election officials before polls closed, The Washington Post reports. U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of the District of Columbia had […]
11/3/2020 Most of the potential legal challenges are likely to stem from the huge increase in absentee balloting brought on by pandemic Republicans have began lodging legal challenges to throw out postal votes as US President Donald Trump faces dire poll predictions on US election day. An embittered election race has seen 300 lawsuits already […]
A U.S. District Judge has ordered that the USPS conduct a sweep of several mail sorting facilities on Tuesday to ensure that all mail-in ballots will be promptly delivered to state election boards. According to The Hill and The Daily Beast, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of U.S. District Court for D.C. ordered that the USPS […]
Days after dozens of undelivered ballots were found sitting in a post office near Homestead, NBC 6 has learned agents with the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General planned a sweep of other mail facilities for ballots. While the details of the sweep were not made available, NBC 6 was told the checks would […]
122 Million Ballots Processed and Delivered Amid Historic Political and Election Mail Volume; Extraordinary Measures Underway to Deliver Ballots Currently in Mail System WASHINGTON, DC — With less than one week until the November election, new U.S. Postal Service data show an exceedingly high-volume of mail moving through the system and a focus on delivery […]
Wednesday, October 28, 2020 WASHINGTON, October 28 – U.S. Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) released the statement below following President Trump’s recent false statement that it is inappropriate and illegal to count ballots after Election Day, and the Supreme Court’s ruling in Democratic National Committee v. Wisconsin Legislature, where Justice Kavanaugh’s concurring opinion contains incorrect […]
The Postal Service has been busy collecting, processing and delivering hundreds of thousands of completed ballots without delay to county clerks and recorders. However, if a voter hasn’t mailed back their ballot, the Postal Service and Colorado Secretary State both recommend that voters now use a local election drop box or deliver their ballot in […]
Postal Employee Convicted of Soliciting Bribes to provide addresses of customers receiving ballots 3/7/17 McALLEN, Texas – A former U.S. Postal Service (USPS) carrier has entered a guilty plea to receiving bribe money in exchange for providing addresses of postal ballot recipients, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Noe Olvera, a 43-year-old resident of Mission, admitted […]