12/3/2020 US Postal Service workers likely delivered more than 99.9% of the nation’s mail ballots in-time to be counted this year, despite record participation and unprecedented pandemic-related challenges. However, it also appears the USPS disenfranchised tens of thousands of voters – who mailed legally-cast ballots the week before the election – through substandard performance. New […]
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JEFFERSON CITY — Missourians casting mail-in ballots must mail them via the U.S. Postal Service under a federal court ruling issued Thursday. The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals stayed a district court ruling that would have allowed voters to return their mail ballots in person. The ruling came as voting is underway heading toward the […]
The U.S. Postal Service still isn’t processing election mail on time, even after being ordered by judges to halt disruptive changes like banning worker overtime and late delivery trips, Pennsylvania’s attorney general told a judge. USPS data show the postal agency’s performance levels are down more than 5% from where they were before the changes […]
Washington (CNN)As the coronavirus pandemic has brought much of normal life to a halt, more and more states are considering mail-in ballots. Though a majority of Americans support them as a socially distanced solution for elections this fall, President Donald Trump has instead doubled down on his penchant for making false claims about voter fraud […]
Early voters taking advantage of vote-by-mail provisions (where available) began sending in their general election ballots in October 2016, and social media rumors began circulating holding that mailed ballots were subject to being invalidated or returned to sender due to insufficient postage. Confusion among mail voters was rife, and a contributing factor to that confusion […]
May 22, 2015 McALLEN — The case of two Mission postal workers facing an investigation into whether they sold mail-in ballots during the last La Joya school district board election was recently turned over to federal prosecutors for review. The case focuses on whether the postmen conspired to sell lists of voters receiving mail-in ballots […]