WASHINGTON, DC — Today the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) released a letter that is being sent to local and state election officials and state party officials around the country. This letter highlights key aspects of Election Mail delivery processes — and ways to help educate the public on what to expect when using the mail […]
President Trump this week ratcheted up his attacks on mail-in voting as more states move to increase absentee ballot access due to coronavirus uncertainties. The president has levied unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud dating back to the 2016 election and has continued to do so even though he was victorious. But he took his complaints […]
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 […]
Wyden Introduces National Vote By Mail, Breaks Down Barriers, More time to resolve registration problems, Makes voting more accessible for working & disabled Americans & seniors Oregon-Style Voting Makes Polls More Accessible to Working and Disabled Americans Washington, D.C. –As a new tide of voter disenfranchisement rises across the country, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today […]
03/24/2016 – The Postal Service is indeed worth saving. That was the consensus of participants in the first field hearing sponsored by A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service (AGA), held at Coppin State University in Baltimore on March 23. A panel of community leaders heard testimony from people who discussed what the […]
3/22/16 On Wed., March 23, A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service, a coalition of more than 130 national and local organizations, will convene the first of five hearings in Baltimore, MD. on “U.S. Postal Service: Will Slow Mail Affect U.S. Elections?” Additional hearings will take place later this spring in Cleveland, Greensboro, […]
Washington, D.C. – Looking for ways to expand voter participation and reduce the growing cost of elections, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), John Kerry (D-Mass.), Thomas Carper (D-Del.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced a package of bills today that would make it easier for states to institute the same […]